UK & Swiss Stock Listings – Advantages & Disadvantages Versus EU Listings
Webinar - UK & Switzerland
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Becoming a listed company has advantages not only for large companies, but also small and medium enterprises. In 1995, AIM was created as a sub-market of the London Stock Exchange, offering smaller companies the ability to raise funds through the sale of shares. Similar opportunities are available in Switzerland, with a special regime for SME listings on Swiss exchanges. Since Brexit, both of these two major stock exchange jurisdictions are now outside the European union. However, they are competing for the same slice of the pie. On the panel we have two very experienced representatives of each country. For the UK, Marcus Stuttart of the London Stock Exchange, and for Switzerland, Matthias Müller of BX, one of the two Swiss authorised stock exchanges. We would like to understand from the panellists how the UK and Switzerland compete in general, and in particular vis-à-vis the EU. The seminar will be chaired by Ariel Sergio Davidoff of Lindemannlaw Zurich.
Speakers:
Matthias Müller is Member of the Executive Board at BX Swiss, the Swiss stock exchange focusing on SMEs and private investors, and responsible for the further development of the exchange ecosystem, including the onboarding of new issuers and trading participants. He is also in charge of the online platform Regservices.ch on which BX offers regulatory services to more than 600 banks and financial service providers. He has 16 years of stock exchange experience and started his career in the financial sector with UBS and Credit Suisse. Before joining BX Swiss in 2018, he was responsible for the group-wide innovation management of SIX. Matthias Müller holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from HWZ in Zurich and an advanced Swiss Federal Diploma in financial market operations from AZEK.
Marcus Stuttard is Head of AIM and has responsibility for Primary Markets in the UK across both AIM and the Main Market. He is responsible for the management and development of AIM, London Stock Exchange’s international growth market for small and medium sized enterprises. He is a regular speaker on growth and business funding issues and sits on a number of industry and policy advisory bodies and has played a leading role in key policy changes such as making AIM shares eligible for inclusion in ISAs, the abolition of stamp duty on the trading of shares admitted to Recognised Growth Markets such as AIM and the approval of AIM as the leading European SME Growth Market, a categorisation created in MiFID II.
Chairman:
Dr Ariel Sergio Davidoff
After an uninterrupted, successful and exciting banking career spanning over 34 years in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, which took him from the level of office clerk to Member of the Executive Board and CEO of prestigious private banks, Ariel is now self-employed as a partner in a law firm, where he looks after the interests of an international UHNW entrepreneur clientele. He holds positions on several boards of directors in the Swiss wealth management industry and others. He serves inter alia as Vice Chair for the Swiss Capital Market Forum and is an expert for the annual STEP Awards in London. He is a Doctor of Business Administration (Australia), holds an LL.M. degree (Switzerland) and is a STEP member. Ariel is a regular speaker, panellist and moderator at (web-) conferences about the wealth management industry, its trends as well as risk management and wealth protection for the UHNW investor.
Speaker(s):
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Matthias Müller
Member of the Executive Board
BX Swiss
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Marcus Stuttard
Head of UK Primary Markets, Head of AIM
London Stock Exchange
Chairman:
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Dr Ariel Sergio Davidoff
Partner
Lindermann Law