Member Profiles

QUALIFICATIONS - Solicitor, Law Society of England and Wales - Attorney and counselor at Law, New York bar - Avocat à la Cour, Ordre des Avocats de Paris PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND - Partner (2004 to 2007) - Pestalozzi Lachenal Patry, Geneva, Switzerland - Partner specialised in finance. Practice covers commodity finance, structured finance and M&A. - Non- executive Director (2004 to 2005) - Nelson Resources Limited, Bermuda, active in Kazakhstan - Non-executive director of Nelson Resources, a listed independent oil company (Toronto and London), active in Kazakhstan - Served as chairman of the committee of independent directors that negotiated with Lukoil (major Russian oil company) the take-over of Nelson Resources. - Non- executive Director (2006 to present) - RMG The Risk Management Group (Suisse) SA. Non-executive director of this medium size company specialised in capital markets advice to local authorities and SMEs in Europe. - Head of the Legal Department, Member of the Executive Committee (2002 to 2004) - BNP Paribas, Geneva, Switzerland. - Partner, Global head of Capital markets. (2001 to 2002) - Andersen Legal, London, UK - Joined to create the global capital markets practice of Andersen Legal, part of Arthur Andersen. As a result of Enron, Andersen Legal was disbanded in the UK in June 2002. - Partner, Head of ISG (1995 to 2001) - Norton Rose, London, UK - Partner . Established this top 20 City law firm in capital markets, derivatives and securitisation. - Head of Legal Department (1992 to 1995) - BNP Capital Markets Limited, London, UK - Head of legal department in charge of documenting the activities of BNP Capital Markets. - Counsel (1992 to 1992) - EBRD, London, UK - Lawyer in the Office of the General Counsel (OGC). - Director (1988 to 1992) - UBS Phillips & Drew, London, UK - Director and deputy-head of the Corporate Finance transaction management team. - Officer (1987 to 1988) - Credit Suisse First Boston, London, UK - Joined the transaction management team as a lawyer. EDUCATION - LL.M, Master, Law 1985 - University of Pennsylvania, Law School, Philadelphia, PA, USA. - Post graduate law programme at this Ivy league University (Wharton). - Diploma, Law and International relations1984 - Graduate Institute of International Studies (HEI), Geneva, Switzerland - Diploma of the Institute. Diploma awarded with very high honours. - LL.B, Law 1982 - Université de Franche-Comté, Faculté de Droit, Besançon, France - Licence en droit (Bachelor of law), awarded with honours. - Baccalauréat D, Sciences 1978 - Lycée d'Etat, Saint-Gaudens, France - Baccalauréat (D, major in Sciences). Awarded with honours.. AFFILIATIONS - Member, Law Society of England and Wales, Ordre des Avocats au barreau de Paris, New York State Bar Association, American Bar Association. Associate member of the Geneva Bar association. - Teaching position at the University of Geneva Law School on Commodities finance and on Structured finance. - Member, Oriental Club, London.

Partner, attorney at law, after completing his studies at the University of St. Gall (HSG), he moved to a position as assistant in private law at the University of Basel. Following his bar exam in Basel in 1997, he worked in the legal department of a large international auditing and consultancy company (PricewaterhouseCoopers) in Basel for five years. Since 2003, he has practised law with a focus on corporate law transactions, (international) contract law, insolvency and debt restructuring law, arbitration as well as stock exchange and capital market law. Further, he is a member of the board of directors of the Historical and Antiquarian Society of Basel and of the foundation Pro Augusta Raurica. Martin Wepfer speaks and corresponds in German, English and French. The Firm We are an established firm of attorneys and notaries of Basel, Switzerland, with offices at Rittergasse 12, close to the Basel Museum of Art , in the heart of Basel, the international business centre. Mathys Schmid Partner have gained a reputation amongst a demanding Swiss and international clientele for quality, competence and efficiency. The partnership's legal consultancy services are marked by independence, creativity and entrepreneurial thinking and action. We are a team of experienced and dynamic lawyers, with various post-graduate degrees, we are licensed to represent clients before the courts of Switzerland. Our professional services are marked by a willingness to serve and by our sincere personal commitment. Our firm ensures the adequate availability of staff in all cases.

Peter Nobel is a leading national and international Swiss commercial lawyer. His practice focuses on Swiss and European corporate law, banking and stock exchange law, and finance and capital markets law. He also represents clients in proceedings before Swiss and European authorities and courts as well as before national and international arbitration tribunals, and also acts as an arbitrator himself. The “Handelszeitung” referred to Peter Nobel as the “doyen of commercial lawyers”. In 1982, Peter Nobel founded his own law firm in Zurich, which later merged into Nobel & Hug. Between 1980 and 1997, he was a substitute judge at the Commercial Court of the Canton of Zurich, regularly as a judge rapporteur. From 1998 until the end of 2015, he was a judge at the Commercial Court of Zurich. Peter Nobel was also a member of the Swiss Federal Banking Commission, the preceding authority of the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA, between 1988 and 2000. In 1984 he was appointed honorary professor and in 1997 associate professor for private, commercial and business law at the University of St. Gallen, where he was also director at the Institute for European Law until 2010. In 2004, Peter Nobel founded the Master of Law and Economics (“MLE”) programme at the University of St. Gallen. From 2007 to 2012, he was full professor ad personam of Swiss and international commercial and business law at the University of Zurich. He was also Chairman of the Editorial Board of SZW (Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht, Zurich) from 1995 to 2013. Peter Nobel furthermore serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Stadler CIS AG, a subsidiary of Stadler Rail AG. Peter Nobel has written over 30 books and around 250 articles on Swiss, European, and international stock corporation, financial market, capital market, corporate, banking law and arbitration. Peter Nobel is also connected with culture. He is the executor of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s will. With his wife Annette, he has built up the extensive art collection “Press Art”.

De Gaulle Fleurance strengthens its capacity to support cross-border operations with an office in Geneva 🇨🇭 Patrice Lefèvre-Péaron, partner, will lead De Gaulle Fleurance Geneva and will lead a team of 5 people. Switzerland is known for its banks; Its economy is also based on its industry, particularly precision industries. Franco-Swiss exchanges are important. Switzerland is the 2nd largest foreign investor in France and its 9th largest trading partner, while France is Switzerland's 5th largest trading partner and the 3rd largest foreign employer in the same country. More generally, Switzerland attracts investors from all over the world, particularly from the EMEA region. With 25 years of experience, Patrice Lefèvre-Péaron has been admitted to the Geneva Bar for several years and is classified in Chambers Global as a Foreign Lawyer. He advises companies setting up in Europe on the structuring of their investments from abroad, particularly from the United Arab Emirates. Its activity focuses on the cross-border operations of economic actors "Relying on a French firm of reference, full service, like De Gaulle Fleurance is strategic at our stage of development. This will allow us to complete our range of services, particularly in terms of regulatory and cryptoassets.  TRAINING : Harvard Business School Business Law Master’s Degree, Postgraduate Diploma (DJCE), (DESS) in Business Law and Corporate Taxation (University of Lyon III) Certificate in specialised studies in tax law (University of Montpellier) Master’s Degree in Business Law (Paris II, Pantheon-Assas University) Trust Estate Practitioners (TEP) MEMBER OF : International Fiscal Association (IFA) International Business Structuring Association (IBSA) Society of Trust Estate Practitioners (STEP) EXPERTISE Taxation of mergers and acquisitions Tax management of international companies Litigation & tax audits Asset taxation SIGNIFICANT EXPERIENCES Assistance to sevral families of reference shareholders and ETIs in the context of the evolution of their governance and tax structuring issues. Structuration of the operations of various private equity funds (York Capital Management, Sun Capital, One Equity, Apollo Global Management) in particular, in connection with their various investments in Europe. Assistance to the restructuring of the family shareholding of one of the main French listed private equity groups Advised Publicis Groupe in connection with several cross-border acquisition transactions in Europe, Asia and North America. Assistance to one of the leading French real estate development groups and its key management shareholders. Counsel to the Webedia group in connection with various acquisitions in France and abroad (Europe and North America). Advised IGRAAL, the leading cashback company in France, and its managing shareholders in its sale to M6. Assistance to the INSEEC group, European leader in higher education. Assistance to one of the world’s leading energy producers in connection with the development of its activities in Switzerland. Assistance to leading Swiss shareholder families in the transfer of their assets in Switzerland and the European Union. Assistance to a Franco-Swiss family in a significant Franco-Swiss succession. Assistance to the world’s leading trade show organisation group. Assistance to a world leader in construction activities in connection with its Franco-Swiss business. Assistance to several leading French insurance groups in connection with the structuring of their Franco-Swiss acquisitions.