Dr. Thomas Nagel has extensive experience in the fields of financial market, corporate, and general business law. His special area of expertise is the Anti-Money Laundering Act, on which he has written his doctoral thesis and numerous practice-relevant publications in professional journals. Additionally, he works as a lecturer at the Swiss Distance University of Applied Science (FFHS) in the field of compliance and corporate governance.
He assists companies in the financial sector with regulatory issues in connection with licensing and enforcement proceedings before authorities and self-regulatory organisations, with the drafting of contracts and with strategic decisions. Thomas Nagel worked as a secondee in the legal department of a bank in Zurich. His clients therefore benefit from the fact that he knows their perspective and their challenges from personal experience.
Before joining Advoro, Thomas Nagel worked at Walder Wyss Ltd in Zurich for four years. He gained professional experience at the bilingual Regional Court of Berner Jura-Seeland, at law firms in Bern, Zurich, and St. Gallen, and at the legal department of an auditing firm in Zurich.
Thomas Nagel studied at the University of Bern (Bachelor 2012; Master 2014; Doctorate in Law 2019 with summa cum laude) and at the Université de Nantes (Master 2012). He also holds certificates from the University of St. Gallen in Finance (2022) and in Sustainable Finance (2023).
Thomas Nagel primarily works in German and English and is fluent in French. He is registered in the Zurich Bar Register and authorised to practice law throughout Switzerland.
Lecture: Swiss financial market regulation
Speaker: Thomas Nagel
LL. M. / CAS International Banking, Capital Markets and Insurance Law at the University of Zurich UZH, 16 December 2023
Single Family Offices: Classification under financial market law taking into account current practice and outlook (Original Title: Finanzmarktrechtliche Einordnung unter Berücksichtigung der aktuellen Praxis und Ausblick)
Authors: Thomas Nagel and Alexander Eichhorn
in: GesKR 4/2023, p. 522 et seqq.
Consultation draft on strengthening the fight against money laundering and the transparency register: Assessment of the preliminary draft (Original Title: Vernehmlassungsvorlage zur Stärkung der Geldwäscherei-Bekämpfung bzw. Transparenzregister: Würdigung des Vorentwurfs)
Author: Thomas Nagel
in: RRCO (Recht relevant. für Compliance Officers) 6/2023, S. 2 ff.
Buy now pay later (BNPL): Overview of the legal framework in Switzerland (Original Title: “Buy now pay later (BNPL): Überblick über die rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen in der Schweiz”)
author: Thomas Nagel
in: RRCO (Recht relevant. für Compliance Officers) 5/2023, S. 5 et seqq.
Proposal for the Swiss Transparency Register: Is there a frontal attack on the “société anonyme” and lawyer-client confidentiality? (Original Title: “Gesetzesvorlage für das Schweizer Transparenzregister: Kommt der Frontalangriff auf die «société anonyme» und auf das Anwaltsgeheimnis?”)
author: Thomas Nagel
in: RRCO (Recht relevant. für Compliance Officers) 3/2023, p. 2 et seqq.
Services for Payment Transactions under the Anti-Money Laundering Act: Delimitations and selected practical questions (Original Title: “Dienstleistungen für den Zahlungsverkehr unter dem Geldwäschereigesetz: Abgrenzungen und ausgewählte Praxisfragen”)
author: Thomas Nagel
in: GesKR (Gesellschafts- und Kapitalmarktrecht) 2023, p. 72 et seqq.
Legal qualification of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) with a special focus on the Anti-Money Laundering Act (Original Title: “Rechtliche Qualifikation Dezentralisierter Autonomer Organisationen (DAOs) mit besonderer Betrachtung des Geldwäschereigesetzes”)
author: Thomas Nagel
in: iusNet Bank- und Kapitalmarktrecht, 23 February 2023
Presentation: Tutorial for first-semester law students at the University of Bern (Original Title: “Tutorium für erstsemestrige Jura-Studierende der Universität Bern”)
speakers: Thomas Nagel and Pascal Zysset
Bern, 1 November 2022
Lecture: Anti-Money Laundering Act: Questions with regard to its scope of application in practice (Original Title: “Geldwäschereigesetz: Unterstellungsfragen in der Praxis”)
speaker: Thomas Nagel
Master-Lecture “Selected Questions on Financial Market Law” at the University of Bern, 25 October 2022
Significance of a function in outsourcing by banks (Original Title: “Wesentlichkeit einer Funktion bei Outsourcing durch Banken”)
author: Thomas Nagel
in: RRCO (Recht relevant. für Compliance Officers) 5/2022, p. 8 et seqq.
Presentation: Advancement of the rules with regard to compensations for listed stock corporations in the new share company law (Original Title: “Weiterentwicklung der VegüV im neuen Aktienrecht”)
speaker: Thomas Nagel
Event on the topic of “Revision of Share Company Law – what now?” in Bern, 20 September 2022
Dissolution of rental deposit accounts in practice: A legal and procedural overview (Original Title: “Die Auflösung von Mietzinsdepots in der Praxis: Eine materiellrechtliche sowie prozessrechtliche Auslegeordnung”)
authors: Thomas Nagel and Michael Nagel
in: Jusletter, 5 September 2022
Overview of the new AML obligation to verify the identity of the beneficial owner (Original Title: “Auslegeordnung der neuen GwG-Pflicht zur Überprüfung der Identität der wirtschaftlich berechtigten Person”)
author: Thomas Nagel
in: iusNet Bank- und Kapitalmarktrecht, 31 March 2022
Identification obligations of banks in business relationships with domiciliary entities (Original Title: “Identifizierungspflichten von Banken bei Geschäftsbeziehungen mit Sitzgesellschaften”)
authors: Thomas Nagel and Klaus Wiesehöfer
in: SJZ (Schweizerische Juristen-Zeitung) 2022, p. 139 et seqq.
Commentary on Art. 7a (Assets of low value/”bagatelle clause”) (Original Title: “Kommentar zu Art. 7a (Vermögenswerte von geringem Wert/”Bagatellklausel”)”)
authors: Thomas Nagel and Thomas Müller
in: Basel Commentary on the Anti-Money Laundering Act, Basel 2021
Advertising for financial instruments and financial services: Regulatory aspects, delimitations, and contractual guidelines (Original Title: “Werbung für Finanzinstrumente und Finanzdienstleistungen: Aufsichtsrechtliche Aspekte, Abgrenzungen und Hinweise zur Vertragsgestaltung”)
author: Thomas Nagel
in: Jusletter, 4 October 2021
Conflicts of interest of Compliance Officers: With a special focus on the reporting obligation according to Art. 9 AML (Original Title: “Interessenkonflikte des Compliance Officers: Mit besonderer Betrachtung der Meldepflicht nach Art. 9 GwG”)
author: Thomas Nagel
in: SJZ (Schweizerische Juristen-Zeitung) 2021, p. 102 et seqq.
Presentation: Tutorial for first-semester law students at the University of Bern (Original Title: “Tutorium für erstsemestrige Jura-Studierende der Universität Bern”)
speaker: Thomas Nagel
Bern, 12 November 2021
Presentation: The Anti-Money Laundering Act: Overview and current developments (Original Title: ” Das Geldwäschereigesetz: Überblick und aktuelle Entwicklungen”)
speaker: Thomas Nagel
Walder Wyss Online Breakfast, 4 November 2020
Anti Money Laundering Regulation and DLT Regulation – legal update
authors: Thomas Nagel and Thomas Müller
Regular Newsletter 142, September 2020
Laundering money via SMS? Value-added services and the Anti-Money Laundering Act: Discussion of recent case law (Original Title: “Per SMS Geld waschen? Mehrwertdienste und Geldwäschereigesetz Besprechung der jüngsten Rechtsprechung”)
author: Thomas Nagel
in: Jusletter, 17 August 2020
Should the safekeeping of assets be subject to the Anti-Money Laundering Act in the future? (Original Title: “Soll das Aufbewahren von Vermögenswerten künftig dem Geldwäschereigesetz unterstellt werden?”)
author: Thomas Nagel
in: GesKR (Gesellschafts- und Kapitalmarktrecht) 2020, p. 113 et seqq.
The personal and material scope of application of the Swiss Anti-Money Laundering Act (AMLA) (Original Title: “Der persönliche und sachliche Geltungsbereich des schweizerischen Geldwäschereigesetzes (GwG)”)
author: Thomas Nagel
Dissertation at the University of Bern 2019, published in: Schweizer Schriften zum Finanzmarktrecht, Band 132, 2020
Presentation: The personal and material scope of application of the Swiss Anti-Money Laundering Act (Original Title: “Der persönliche und sachliche Geltungsbereich des schweizerischen Geldwäschereigesetzes”)
speaker: Thomas Nagel
University of Bern, 12 December 2019
Presentation: Asset managers and investment advisors – When are they subject to the Anti-Money Laundering Act? (Original Title: “Vermögensverwalter und Anlageberater – Wann falle ich unter das GwG?”)
speakers: Thomas Nagel and Pascal Zysset
Roundtable for asset managers and financial service providers, Bern, 26 February 2019
The territorial scope of application of the Anti-Money Laundering Act (Original Title: “Der räumliche Geltungsbereich des Geldwäschereigesetzes”)
authors: Thomas Nagel and Pascal Zysset
in: GesKR(Gesellschafts- und Kapitalmarktrecht) 2018, p. 140 et seqq.
Revision needs of the rules on vesting of non-listed registered shares according to Article 685b para. 2 Swiss Code of Obligations (Original Title: “Die statutarische Vinkulierung nicht kotierter Namenaktien: Revisionsbedarf der Ablehnungsgründe gemäss Art. 685b Abs. 2 OR”)
author: Thomas Nagel
in: AJP (Aktuelle Juristische Praxis) 2015, p. 190 et seqq.
