Patrick K. Meyer

Patrick Meyer has been working as an attorney in the financial industry for around 20 years and has been a partner at Mercury Compliance AG since 2013. Previously, he spent nine years as an attorney focusing on financial market supervisory law at a Big Four audit firm in Zurich, where he headed the Regulatory & Compliance Services practice from 2010.

Before that, Patrick worked for several years in the banking sector in Switzerland and abroad, most recently as Head Legal & Compliance at a bank in Zurich. He began his legal career at a commercial law firm in Lucerne, where he also completed the Swiss bar examination.

Patrick Meyer has extensive experience advising banks, securities dealers, collective investment schemes and asset managers operating in Switzerland and internationally on all areas of financial market law and compliance. In recent years, Patrick has also led various major national and international compliance projects as well as FINMA audit mandates.

Patrick Meyer completed his legal studies in 1997 with a licentiate in law (lic. iur.) at the University of Fribourg and in 1998 passed the Swiss bar examination. In 2006, he completed an LL.M. programme in “International Banking and Finance Law” at the University of Zurich and in 2009 received FINMA authorisation as an AML mandate leader (GwG-Mandatsleiter). He is registered in the bar register of the Canton of Zurich and admitted to practise as an attorney before all Swiss courts.

Patrick Meyer publishes regularly in legal journals on financial market law topics and speaks at professional events on current regulatory developments.