Dieter C.
Söhner
Chairman / Managing Partner
Dieter C. Söhner
…a sworn barrister in Switzerland. He was educated at the university of Berne (CH) and completed an MBA (Geneva University, CH) as well as an Executive MBA (Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, USA). He is registered with the Bar Registry of Schwyz and admitted to practice in all Switzerland.
For more than 15 years Dieter is active as a lawyer specialized in the field of financial intermediaries and does advise banks, securities houses and asset managers on financial services regulatory, civil law and AML/KYC issues. Dieter has various activities in non-profit organizations and his working languages are German and English.
Dieter was a senior officer at the Swiss Federal Banking Commission (SFBC) (today Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA) in the Department of Approvals (Banks)/Collective Investment Schemes and headed up the Legal & Regulatory Department of financial services industry of one of the big audit companies.
– Swiss attorney at law (20 years)
– Former FINMA senior officer (6 years)
– Founding Partner of pfi partners for financial intermediaries AG
– Founding Partner of Lloyd’s & Partners AG
