Ariel Ben Hattar
Partner
Attorney at Law
Partner Attorney at Law +41 58 450 70 00 ariel.benhattar@lenzstaehelin.com |
Geneva Route de Chêne 30 CH-1211 Geneva |
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Expertise
Ariel Ben Hattar is a partner at our Geneva office, where he is a member of the Capital Markets and FinTech groups. He regularly advises listed companies, investors and market infrastructure operators on transactional and regulatory matters, including capital market transactions, market conduct and disclosure requirements. His expertise extends to innovation in financial technology and the use of distributed ledger technology in financial markets.
Ariel is also the secretary of the Executive Committee of the Capital Markets and Technology Association (CMTA) that develops standards for the use of new technologies in this sector.
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Specialist Areas
Capital Markets, FinTech, Public Takeovers, Securities Regulation, Corporate and M&A -
Practices
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Professional Experience and Education
and Education
2023 Partner at Lenz & Staehelin 2021 General Counsel at Recipharm AB (seconded) 2016 Associate at Lenz & Staehelin 2013 Legal officer at Swissquote Bank 2022 University of Oxford (Postgraduate Diploma in Financial Strategy) 2016 Admission to Vaud bar 2013 University of Lausanne (MLaw) 2011 University of Lausanne (BLaw) -
Languages
French, English -
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Iffland Jacques, Ben Hattar Ariel, Commentaire des articles 17 et 18 de la Loi sur les services financiers, in: Richa/Fischer, Commentaire romand de la Loi sur les services financiers, 2022
- Iffland Jacques, Ben Hattar Ariel, Central Securities Depositaries in the Age of Tokenized Securities, in: CapLaw, Swiss Capital Markets Law, Regulatory, April 2020, 22-27
- Ben Hattar Ariel, Can publicly available data become insider information?, in: CapLaw, Swiss Capital Market Law, Securities, May 2019, 9-17
- Iffland Jacques, Ben Hattar Ariel, Equity Capital Markets - Switzerland, in: Lexology Navigator, July 2017
- Meylan Delphine, Ben Hattar Ariel, Le concept de dérivé dans la LIMF - Les contours flous d'une notion au coeur de la réglementation financière, in: GesKR (Gesellschafts- und Kapitalmarktrecht) 2/2018, 205-215
- Iffland Jacques, Ben Hattar Ariel, Activists - The investors Switzerland loves to hate, in: The Lawyer, Briefings, April 2018
- Iffland Jacques, Ben Hattar Ariel, Cross-Border Listings of Swiss Companies, in: Best Lawyers, Fall Global Business Edition 2017, 1 September 2017
- Iffland Jacques, Ben Hattar Ariel, Les Systèmes organisés de négociation, in: GesKR 4/2016, p. 458-469
- Ben Hattar Ariel, Métille S., Data Protection in the Financial Sector - Switzerland, in: Dataguidance, 2016
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Contact Details
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Assistant
Publications
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Commentaire des articles 17 et 18 de la Loi sur les services financiers
in: Richa/Fischer, Commentaire romand de la Loi sur les services financiers, 2022
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Central Securities Depositaries in the Age of Tokenized Securities
in: CapLaw, Swiss Capital Markets Law, Regulatory, April 2020, 22-27