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

Blockchain | DLT | FinTech Corporate Governance Digital Economy Gaming | Live Entertainment Company Law | Notary Cultural Property | Art Regulatory Compliance Transactions | M&A Contract Law

Contact

Dr. Luka Müller
Legal Partner

T +41 41 726 99 66
Email
VCard
CV (PDF)

Secretariat

Simone Rufer
Assistant

T +41 44 254 99 69
Email

From the magazine

Removal of obstacles to digitisation

On 29 August 2018, the Federal Council took note of the results of the "Digital Test" survey conducted by the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research (EAER). On the basis of the feedback received, it has decided to examine in more detail measures to reduce the obstacles to the statutory formal requirements.

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.

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