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Sabine Kilgus
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Sabine Kilgus graduated with a PhD in law with honors from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, in 1987 where she also worked as a research assistant. Her doctoral thesis was a fundamental analysis of the contractual liability in case of a forged signature in bank-client relationships. She completed her academic studies at University of Pennsylvania, Law School and Wharton Business School, Philadelphia, where she graduated as an LL.M. in 1993. In 1996 she stayed for several months with New York University, Stern School of Business, Salomon Center for Finance as Visiting Scholar. In 2006 after termination of the so-called habilitation proceedings in the subject of financial markets regulation, she was granted the title of Private Lecturer (Privatdozentin) of the University of Zurich in the fields of private and commercial law, in particular financial markets law. Sabine worked as a clerk with the District Court of Zurich. She was admitted to the Zurich bar in 1990. From 1990 until 2004 she worked with one of the major international law firm in Zurich. Sabine joined Lutz Rechtsanwälte in 2005 and in January 2008, Sabine has been promoted to be Of-Counsel to Lutz Rechtsanwälte. In addition, Sabine is lecturer at the Universities of Zurich and St. Gall as well as at the Swiss Finance Institute, the former Swiss Banking School, in the past also at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences. Her topics are financial markets law as well as contracts and commercial law, where she also published several articles. With effect as of January 1, 2008, Sabine Kilgus has been elected by the Swiss Federal Council to become a member of the Swiss Federal Banking Commission ("FBC", the regulator of banks, securities dealers, stock exchanges as well as investment companies and investment products). Effective February 1, 2008, she has also been elected to serve as a member of the board of directors of the newly established regulator of all financial intermediaries, the so-called Financial Market Authority, ("FINMA"), which will replace the FBC in 2009. She is member of the Zurich and Swiss Bar Association and judge in arbitration proceedings of a self-regulatory organization established to prevent money laundering and terrorism financing. Her main areas of practice encompass banking and financial market law, contract and commercial law, including the adjacent litigation |
