Dr. Luka Müller
Legal Partner, LL.M., Dipl. Swiss Fund Officer FA/IAF
Profile
Dr. Luka Müller-Studer, one of the three founding partners of MME, provides assistance to companies in the technology and financial sectors with a focus on blockchain technology. He concentrates his work on technology, financing acquisition and restructuring cases. Luka Müller is an expert on complex compliance cases in the areas of regulatory compliance, anti-money laundering, anti-corruption and judicial assistance and advisor of large compliance organisations.
Business activities
- International and Swiss Contract, Business and Corporate Law
- Regulatory Compliance and Money Laundering Control and Anti-Corruption (with a specialisation in digital finance, online transactions, payment systems)
- Gaming Law
- International Judicial Assistance
Education
- 2013
- Dipl. Swiss Fund Officer FA/IAF
- 1994
- London School of Economics and Political Science, London (LL.M.)
- 1992
- Admitted to the Bar
- 1990
- University of Zurich and Basel (Dr. iur.)
Languages
- German
- English
- French
Listings
The Legal 500 (www.legal500.com)
Recommended lawyer 2018 for TMT
MME Legal | Tax | Compliance’s ‘professional and very good’ practice is ‘highly service-oriented and an absolute specialist in the TMT sector’. The group is particularly well versed in IT matters, including advice on crypto finance, data protection and outsourcing to banks and companies. Recent work includes representing one of the top four banks in Switzerland in a software license court case and advising Ethereum Foundation on the structuring and implementation of a crowd-funded cryptocurrency development. ‘Outstanding and target-oriented IT lawyer’ Martin Eckert ‘listens to the client’s needs first before giving advice’ and ‘does not hesitate to give recommendations regarding risk-based approaches’. Luka Müller, Andreas Glarner and Thomas Linder are the key contacts for fintech matters.
Further Engagements
- Board Memberships of industry and holding companies
- Member of the specialised unit of SRO SCV
- Member of the disciplinary committee of the self regulating organisation of the Swiss Bar and Swiss Notary Association (SRO SAV/SNV)
- Member of the Digital Finance Association (DFCA)
Teaching Assignments
- Lecturer at the Institute of Financial Services Zug (IFZ)
Memberships
- Swiss Bar Association (SAV)
- Zurich Bar Association (ZAV)
- Zug Bar Association (ZGAV)
- International Masters of Gaming Law (IMGL)
Services
Contact
Secretariat
Simone Rufer
Assistant
Email
From the magazine
Functional equivalence
Blockchain technology opens up new possibilities to implement established legal institutions such as ownership or legal transactions in a technically functionally equivalent manner. The authors propose to recognize a digital system as functionally equivalent to the existence of a legal institution or to a legally valid transactions which fulfils all substantive and/or formal requirements that Swiss law attaches to it. These requirements are subject to judicial review and can be specified in law. This creates immediate legal certainty and can focus on what is necessary from a regulative perspective.
Blockchain Taskforce
At the end of April 2018, the Blockchain Task Force presented Federal Councillor Johann N. Schneider-Ammann with a white paper with recommendations for strengthening the Blockchain location Switzerland. Numerous media have reported very positively on this white paper during the last weeks. Read more about the Blockchain Task Force and MME's involvement here.
All magazine reportsPublications
Gaming Switzerland: overview Thomson Reuters - Practical Law 2018
Digitale Revolution im Banking Tages-Anzeiger 2017