Dr iur Martin Hess > Künzi Hess MacNab > Zurich, Switzerland > Lawyer Profile
Künzi Hess MacNab Offices
FLORASTRASSE 47
8008 ZURICH
Switzerland
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Dr iur Martin Hess
Position
Senior Partner
Career
Martin Hess predominantly advises in the area of financial services for both regulated financial institutions and start-ups. He was admitted to the bar in 1987.
Before joining Künzi Hess MacNab as senior partner, Martin spent 19 years as partner in the law firm Wenger & Vieli and 5 years with the Swiss correspondent law firm of PriceWaterhouseCoopers. From 1987-1994, he was legal counsel at the Swiss National Bank (Central Bank). Before, Martin was an assistant at the Zurich University in the department of constitutional and administrative law.
In 1994 and 1997, respectively, he was a member of missions of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to Eastern European countries.
Martin participated as an expert in the preparation of Swiss laws on intermediated securities (2010), on netting (1994) and was part of the expert group on the Swiss laws on the distributed ledger technology and trading venues for DLT based assets (2018-2020).
Between 1974 and 1994 Martin spent three years in the Swiss Army (Captain of the Mountain Artillery).
Languages
German, English, French
Memberships
Zurich Bar Association
International Bar Association
Education
- Admission to the Zurich Bar, 1998
- University of Zurich, Doctorate in Law, thesis in public international law, summa cum laude, 1984
Personal
Martin is married to a Japanese
Leisure
Dog
Reading
Out door activities, ski, walking
An evening with friends
Lawyer Rankings
Switzerland > Banking and finance: Zurich
Künzi Hess MacNab provides ‘cooperative, uncomplicated and very professional’ legal, regulatory, and compliance advice for players in the financial services industry such as banks, asset managers, and financial services platforms. The team is headed by Eva Künzi Peditto, My Chau Bachelard, and Martin Hess with Jillian MacNab and Saskia Cruchon being key team members.