Law Firm Bergt & Partners Ltd., Liechtenstein office@bergt.law +423 235 40 15
Selected experience · Ongoing & recent mandates
CURRENT · ONGOING · RECENT

Experience in Liechtenstein business law, regulated markets and disputes

Bergt Law advises companies, regulated institutions, issuers, investors, entrepreneurs and private clients on ongoing, current and recently completed matters. Our work spans banking, insurance, securities and MiCAR regulation, prospectuses, corporate and M&A, disputes, contracts and liability, private wealth, IP/IT, white-collar matters and cross-border legal opinions.

15+
current & recent strategic matter streams
selected complex regulatory, transactional and contentious matters
5+
MiCAR & digital-asset projects
authorisation, transition, token/white-paper work, governance and payments/e-money adjacency
12+
regulatory & capital-markets matters
selected current and recent regulatory, supervisory, securities and capital-markets workstreams
5+
prospectus & offering mandates
current and recent securities prospectus, offering and issuance mandates
10+
jurisdictions
represented across selected current and recent cross-border matters
Selected current & recent matter themes
01 Banking, MiFID II, insurance & MiCAR
02 Prospectuses, offerings & capital markets
03 Corporate, M&A & restructurings
04 Disputes, enforcement & liability
05 Private wealth, foundations & trusts
06 Contracts, IP/IT, white collar & opinions

Banks & regulated financial institutions

  • Banking and finance mandates involving lending, structured finance, security and collateral packages, payment and treasury structures, and institutional counterparty arrangements, including Liechtenstein-law implementation over entities and shares.
  • Bank-side advice on MiCAR safeguarding, safeguarding and reserve-account structures, and interfaces with deposit, insolvency and prudential rules, including institutional digital-asset exposure.
  • Regulatory work on CRR/CRD, governance, outsourcing, AML/CFT, payments and e-money adjacency, product/perimeter questions and supervisory documentation.
BankingStructured FinanceCRR/CRDSafeguardingAML/CFT
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Insurance & InsurTech

  • Set-up and market-entry projects for insurers in Liechtenstein, including authorisation requirements under VersAG and Solvency II.
  • Corporate governance, fit and proper, substance, outsourcing, compliance, risk management and organisational implementation.
  • Cross-border EEA structures, distribution questions and coordination of corporate and supervisory requirements.
InsuranceSolvency IILicensingGovernance
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Investment firms, MiFID II & investment services

  • Regulatory classification of securities and investment services, business models and cross-border service provision.
  • MiFID II matters including client categorisation, suitability/appropriateness, product governance, inducements, marketing and distribution.
  • Financial-instrument classification and interfaces between MiFID II, MiCAR, the Liechtenstein Blockchain Act and capital-markets law.
MiFID IIInvestment ServicesSecuritiesProduct Governance
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MiCAR, CASP, FinTech & digital assets

  • MiCAR CASP authorisation and transition projects covering exchange, custody, transfer, placing and other crypto-asset services.
  • MiCAR white papers, token classification, issuer/offeror roles, token migrations and structuring of offers.
  • DORA, AML/CFT and Travel Rule, safeguarding, payments/e-money adjacency, complaints, conflicts of interest, market-abuse controls and operational governance.
MiCARCASPPayments / E-moneyTVTGDORA
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Prospectuses, public offers & capital markets

  • Multiple securities-prospectus and offering mandates involving equity and debt instruments, preferred shares, depositary receipts and structured or tokenised participations.
  • EU Prospectus Regulation, summaries, risk factors, financial information, offer terms, investor documentation and liability issues.
  • Support from drafting and filing through authority review, supplements/corrections and implementation of the offer.
Prospectus RegulationPublic OffersEquityDebt
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Corporate, transactions & governance

  • Cross-border acquisitions and investment structures, reorganisations, capital increases and contributions in kind, shareholder and joint-venture arrangements, and founder or family-business governance under Liechtenstein law.
  • Governance, transfer, control and exit mechanics, including board and shareholder structures, minority protection, drag/tag, succession and restructuring questions in live international transactions.
  • Integration of corporate implementation with regulated businesses, financing, private-wealth structures, tokenisation and capital-markets requirements.
Scope of services

Bergt Law provides legal advice and representation. We do not provide investment or financial advice and do not act as trustee, fiduciary or corporate-services provider. Where implementation requires notarial or fiduciary services, these are provided by independent Liechtenstein notaries and/or external trustees, fiduciaries or other appropriately authorised advisers.

Notarial services in Liechtenstein
CorporateM&AShareholder GovernanceCapital MeasuresRestructuring
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Compliance, risk & supervisory matters

  • Fit-and-proper procedures, allocation of responsibilities, internal controls and compliance frameworks for regulated businesses.
  • Policies covering outsourcing, complaints, conflicts, market abuse, ICT/DORA, AML/CFT and operational resilience.
  • Remediation, follow-up reviews and structured submissions in ongoing supervisory and authorisation procedures.
ComplianceRiskFit & ProperSupervision
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Dispute resolution, enforcement & liability

  • Commercial and investor litigation, enforcement, asset recovery and cross-border claim execution, including high-value and multi-jurisdictional matters.
  • Regulatory and court proceedings, procedural strategy and coordination of parallel civil, criminal and supervisory exposure where required.
  • Complex contractual, directors’ liability, damages, shareholder, fiduciary and corporate disputes, including dispute-prevention and enforcement planning.
LitigationEnforcementAsset RecoveryDamagesRegulatory
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Contracts, liability & damages

  • Drafting and review of complex commercial, investment, platform, technology, distribution and cooperation agreements.
  • Advice on non-performance, warranties, damages, limitation of liability, directors’ and advisers’ liability, and settlement structures.
  • Contract enforcement, termination, renegotiation and cross-border claims strategy in contentious and pre-contentious situations.
ContractsLiabilityDamagesCommercial
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IP, IT, data protection & digital business

  • Trade mark, brand and other IP matters, licensing, and protection and commercialisation of intangible assets.
  • IT, software, platform, data and technology agreements, including data-protection and digital-regulatory interfaces.
  • Legal support for new digital business models, AI/data applications and technology collaborations, as well as contentious IP/IT matters.
IPIT LawDataDigital Business
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White-collar crime & internal investigations

  • Advice and defence on fraud, breach of trust, misappropriation, insolvency-related offences, money laundering, sanctions, cybercrime and other asset-related white-collar exposure.
  • Internal investigations, incident and document analysis, early-stage risk containment, management-body and compliance questions, and positioning toward prosecutors or supervisory bodies.
  • Coordination of criminal, civil, enforcement and supervisory strategy in cross-border matters, including asset tracing and structurally complex fiduciary, financial-services and digital-asset contexts.
White CollarInvestigationsSanctionsAMLAsset Recovery
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Legal opinions, expert evidence & cross-border advice

  • Legal opinions on Liechtenstein corporate, financial-markets, token, contract and wealth law.
  • Expert analysis of complex cross-border structures and opinions for boards, banks, investors, issuers and foreign counsel.
  • Expert evidence on Liechtenstein law in international disputes and foreign court proceedings, including service, procedural permissibility, recognition, enforcement and other outcome-relevant cross-border questions.
Legal OpinionsExpert EvidenceForeign ProceedingsLiechtenstein LawCross-Border
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Private Wealth & cross-border structures

  • Legal advice on Liechtenstein foundations, trusts, holding structures, succession planning and family-wealth governance.
  • Asset protection and cross-border structures involving corporate, regulatory and succession-law considerations.
  • Coordination with tax, banking, investment and other specialists on complex international wealth structures.
Scope of services

Bergt Law provides legal advice and representation. We do not provide investment or financial advice and do not act as trustee, fiduciary or corporate-services provider. Where implementation requires notarial or fiduciary services, these are provided by independent Liechtenstein notaries and/or external trustees, fiduciaries or other appropriately authorised advisers.

Notarial services in Liechtenstein
FoundationsTrustsPrivate WealthSuccessionCross-Border
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This overview presents selected ongoing, current and recently completed matter types and is not a complete matter list. Non-public mandates are described on an aggregated and anonymised basis due to professional confidentiality. Figures are deliberately rounded minimum indicators of selected current/recent matter streams or cross-border reach, not a lifetime firm statistic. Individual indicators may overlap where a matter spans more than one practice area.

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