Project Description
Diego studied law at the University in Zurich and was admitted to the bar as an attorney at law and notary of the Canton of Zug in 2005. He has extensive experience in practising corporate and commercial law, inheritance law and contract law. Diego also gained profound knowledge in the area of finance and accounting at the University of Lucerne (CAS). Furthermore, he is a member to the Swiss Blockchain Federation’s working group „STO” (“security token offerings”).
Diego is involved in various digitization projects of legal services and blockchain projects (including the establishment of companies using block chain technology, digitization of assets, self-sovreign identity).
Languages: German, English
Expertise
- Notarization law
- Contract law
- Corporate and trade law
- Foundation law
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Succession, contracts of inheritance and execution of wills
- Blockchain, Legaltech, Regtech
- Startups
Curriculum
- since 2020 Partner at Kaiser Odermatt & Partner AG, Zug
- 2015 – 2020 Partner at Zwicky Windlin & Partner, Zug
- 2005 – 2015 lawyer and notary at Zwicky Windlin & Partner, Zug
- 2012 University of Luzern CAS of financing and accounting
- 2003 – 2004 Local Zug law firm, Attorney Trainee
- 2003 Bureau of Internal Affairs, Conaton of Zug
- 2002 Universitiy of Zurich, lic iur. (law degree)
- 1996 Maturity (typus C) at Kantonsschule Zug, Zug
Activities
- SAV (Swiss Bar association), member
- Advokatenverein des Kantons Zug (Zug Bar Association), member
- Registered at the Cantonal Bar Register of Zug
- Joint Chamber of Commerce Switzerland – CIS, member
- British Swiss Chamber of Commerce – BSCC, member
- Crypto Valley Association, member
- Board member and authorized signatory mandates of several companies
- Internationaler Wirtschaftsrat e.V., Berlin, member
- Board member of the very first Swiss company (Drakkensberg AG) incorporated based on blockchain technology (reference is made to digitalSwitzerland, media news here 1 | 2)
- Disruption Disciples, member
- Swiss Blockchain Federation, member
- Cooperation with the University of Applied Science St. Gallen in the research project “Independent Evaluation Framework for Security Tokens” (InnoSuisse)
- JusClub Zug, member
Deals & Cases
Kaiser Odermatt & Partner AG is a member of the British-Swiss Chamber of Commerce
Kaiser Odermatt & Partner AG was accepted as a member of the British-Swiss Chamber of Commerce at the beginning of this year. The British-Swiss Chamber of Commerce is an international group with members from
50th digital foundation in the canton of Zug
The Zug Commercial Registry Office has registered the 50th company in cooperation with the partners from the digitalisation project "digitalise foundig process" (IBM, dvbern, Proxeus, VZ VermögensZentrum, weblaw.ch and Kaiser Odermatt & Partner). Diego
Diego Benz contributed to the Circular «Registered Book-Entry Securities» of the Swiss Blockchain Federation
As one of the authors, Diego Benz contributed to the latest circular «Registered Book-Entry Securities» of the Swiss Blockchain Federation. The authors have intensively dealt with the new securities law provisions of the DLT
Foundation of the association “Digital Identity and Data Sovereignty” (DIDAS)
Diego Benz and Philippe J.A. Kaiser were able to participate in the founding of the association Digital Identity and Data Sovereignty (DIDAS for short). The primary goal of DIDAS is to establish and promote
Diego Benz contributed to the Circular 2020/1 of the Swiss Blockchain Federation
The new DLT (distributed ledger technology) law is expected to come into force in 2021. This will create legal certainty in many areas. For example, for the transfer of digital assets (so-called tokens), the
Diego Benz and Philippe Kaiser at the online IBM EDV court day in Germany
At the invitation of Ulrich Schimpel of IBM Switzerland, our Legal Tech experts Diego Benz and Philippe Kaiser attended the online IBM EDV Gerichtsstag in Germany. They gave a lecture on the topic "Processing