Senior Legal Advisor
Certificate in Business Administration, LL.M.

Aurelia Nick

Realizing strategies for tech start-ups through to crypto banks: Your go-to FinTech expert for implementing your digitalization strategy.

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Profile

Aurelia Nick* has in-depth experience advising nationally and internationally regulated financial market infrastructures and start-ups focusing on financial market law, FinTech, DLT, Blockchain, Decentralized Finance (DeFi), regulatory compliance, and gaming.

She is invited internationally as a guest speaker, holds training courses for regulators, and is a member of the FinTech think tank "Reg@Tech at Wharton" at the Wharton School of Business in Philadelphia, USA.

Aurelia was involved in building the world's first crypto bank. Her specialization lies in the digitization of assets and corporate law processes and assisting clients in proceedings before regulatory authorities.

Through her strong commitment to cross-industry initiatives such as "4T-DLT"/digitalswitzerland, she actively promotes the further development of Switzerland as a sustainable location for FinTech and DLT companies.

*Aurelia Nick is not registered with the Bar Register.

Education

2020 - 2021 Northwestern University, Pritzker School of Law (LL.M. with Honors)
2020 - 2021 IE Business School, Madrid (C.B.A.)
2016 University of Zurich (MLaw)

Languages

German, English, French, Italian, Spanish

Work Experience

since 2023 Senior Legal Advisor at MME
2017 - 2023 Legal Advisor at MME
2016 - 2017 Communications consultant at a major Swiss bank (media spokesperson department)
2015 Internship at the Zurich Public Prosecutor's Office
2014 Internship in a commercial law firm in Rome
2011 Legal assistant in a commercial law firm in Zug

Memberships

  • Reg@Tech at Wharton, USA
  • Northwestern Alumni
  • Alumni IE Business School
  • digitalswitzerland