Alexander TROLLER Partner. Rue de la Mairie 35 PO Box 6569 CH-1211 Geneva 6 Phone: Fax:

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1 Alexander TROLLER Partner Rue de la Mairie 35 PO Box 6569 CH-1211 Geneva 6 atroller@lalive.ch Phone: Fax: Admission Switzerland, 1991 Nationality Swiss Languages French English, German Areas of practice Litigation - Domestic and Cross Border Asset Recovery and Investigations White Collar Crime & Compliance Corporate and Commercial Law Employment Sectors Banking and Finance Private Clients Art and Cultural Property Construction, Real Estate and Infrastructure Energy Alexander Troller joined LALIVE in 1997 and is a partner since He specialises in litigation, with particular emphasis on financial matters, corporate and shareholder disputes, white collar crime, estate and inheritance disputes, employment conflicts and more generally, asset recovery and judicial assistance in civil and criminal matters. On the non-contentious side, Alexander Troller routinely advises corporations and individuals in the structuring and financing of transactions and partnerships, the establishing, purchase and sale of businesses and the planning of estates. His broad litigation practice gives him a strong understanding of the full business cycle and the related needs of his clients. He has expertise in a wide range of industry sectors including private clients, banking & finance, natural resources, utilities and infrastructure projects. Alexander Troller is a member of numerous professional associations including the Swiss Society of Jurists, the Geneva Association for Business Law and the Geneva Society of Law and Legislation. In 2004, he was appointed as Senior Special Fellow to the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) for the legal aspects of the public debt and financial management programme for developing countries, where he acted as expert-consultant, leading multiple training seminars to Ministry of Finance and Central bank officers in Africa and Central Asia. In 2012, he was elected by his peers to the Council of the Geneva Bar Association, where he served until Before joining LALIVE, Alexander Troller held various positions in the commercial and in the banking sector (in commodity finance), including with Banque Paribas in Paris as a structuring officer, International Trade Engineering and Commodities & Trade Finance Departments ( ), Firmenich Inc. and Firmenich SA as legal counsel in New Jersey, USA (1994) and in Geneva (1993). He graduated from the University of Geneva in 1989.

2 Publications The New Rules of Conduct for Financial Services Providers under the Proposed Swiss Financial Services Act (FinSA) Alexander Troller, Simon P. Quedens, 2016 Newsletter TerraLex Connections, 19 April 2016 Swiss banking law upside down Alexander Troller, Nicolas Ollivier, 2015 IBA Banking Law News, March 2015, pp Swiss Legal Issues with Regards to the US Program for Swiss Banks Alexander Troller, Corentin Mulkens, 2014 Newsletter-Terralex Connections Insight into the Swiss-Sino Free Trade Agreement a path to new business opportunities André Brunschweiler, Alexander Troller, 2014 Jusletter, 16 June 2014 Swiss court limits assistance to India Simone Nadelhofer, Alexander Troller, Héloïse Rordorf, 2014 STEP Wealth Structuring News Digest 17 February 2014 International Civil Fraud: Switzerland Alexander Troller, Sandrine Giroud, 2014 In: Louis Flannery (Ed.), International Civil Fraud, First ed., 2014, Thomson Reuters (Professional) UK Limited, 2014, pp No place left to hide Swiss banks under scrutiny from US regulators Alexander Troller, Simone Nadelhofer, Nicolas Ollivier, 2013 Legal Week, September 2013 Switzerland Draft Federal Act on the Freezing and Restitution of Ousted Potentates Assets Alexander Troller, Sandrine Giroud, 2013 International Enforcement Law Reporter, Vol. 29, Issue 10, October 2013, pp Accounting production of internal bank memos Alexander Troller, Nicolas Ollivier, 2013 Banking in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, 2013, pp Lex Weber : Vox Populi, Vox Dei! Alexander Troller, Cédric Lenoir, 2013 Tout l'immobilier, 3 June 2013, pp. 4-5 Mise en œuvre de l Initiative Weber Résidences secondaires : un casse-tête législatif Alexander Troller, Cédric Lenoir, 2012 Tout l'immobilier, 25 June 2012, pp Bonus différés, le prochain dilemme des banques Alexander Troller, Nathalie Bigler, 2010 Le Temps, page Finance, 4 June 2010, p. 16 Current trends in investment and financing in developing countries and new opportunities for government lawyers Alexander Troller, 2006 In: UNITAR Best Practices Series, No. 13, 2006 Lalive.ch Alexander Troller page 2

3 On the involvement of legal practitioners in government services during the negotiation of international loan agreements a perspective for developing countries In: UNITAR Best Practices Series, No. 11, 2005 Managing State guarantees in case of default by borrowers from the perspective of developing countries In: UNITAR Occasional Series for the Central Asian Republics and Azerbaijan, 2005, No. 3 Preparing for the negotiation of international financial transactions from the perspective of State borrowers from developing countries In: UNITAR (Ed.), A New Approach to Debt Management, 2005 Le rôle du juriste des pays en développement dans l identification et la négociation de financements syndiqués internationaux Alexander Troller, 2004 In: UNITAR (Ed.), Programme de formation sur les aspects juridiques de la gestion de la dette, Série pratique N o 1, 2004 Conferences Academy & Finance Infractions préalables au blanchiment, avoirs non-fiscalisés : quelles sont vos obligations légales? Geneva, 29 October 2014 Chair of the conference LALIVE Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) Bank Payment Obligations: The Way Forward in International Trade? Geneva, 14 November 2013 Moderator LALIVE / Association of Foreign Banks in Switzerland (AFBS) Roundtable on Swiss Federal Supreme Court Decision on Retrocessions: Lessons to Be Learnt Geneva, 11 December 2012 Speaker: Retrocessions: Where Do We Stand? UNITAR E-learning Course International Negotiations: Practical Skills and Techniques 5-30 November 2007 Course Director The online course was sponsored by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), of which Alexander Troller is a Senior Special Fellow. The course extended over four weeks and was attended by 70 participants from all parts of the world, of which 61 successfully completed the course. Lalive.ch Alexander Troller page 3

4 UNITAR E-learning Workshop Negotiation of Financial Transactions 11 June - 20 July 2007 Workshop Director The online course was sponsored by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), of which Alexander Troller is a Senior Special Fellow, and organized by UNITAR's Debt and Financial Management Team. The course extended over five weeks and was attended by 63 participants, of which 53 successfully completed the course. IMF Workshop Strategic Debt Management Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan, September 2006 The workshop was attended by about 30 senior executives from the Ministries of Finance and other government of Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan and Tajikistan. The workshop was sponsored by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). UNITAR Debt and Financial Management Team Training Workshop The Role of Law and Lawyers in the Debt Process Yaoundé, June 2006 The workshop was attended by 30 senior executives from the Ministries of Finance and other government agencies of French-speaking Central and Western African countries. This workshop was a joint training initiative of the training pole of the Banque des Etats d'afrique Centrale (BEAC) and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). AusAID UNITAR Training Workshop Legal Aspects of Public Debt Management and Drafting of International Loan Agreements Jakarta, November 2005 The workshop was attended by 40 senior executives from the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Planning, Bank Indonesia and other government agencies of the Republic of Indonesia. It was a joint training initiative of the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). WAIFEM UNITAR Training Workshop Negotiation of International Financial Transactions Banjul, 5-9 September 2005 The workshop was attended by about 30 executives from Ministries of Finance and Justice, Attorney General's offices, central banks, debt management offices, national planning commissions, and commercial banks from English-speaking West Africa (Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone) and from Sudan. Held in Banjul (Gambia), the workshop was a joint training initiative of the West African Institute for Financial and Economic Management (WAIFEM) and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). UNITAR MEFMI Training Workshop Legal and Institutional Aspects of Public Debt for Eastern and Southern Africa Lilongwe, 1-5 August 2005 The workshop was attended by approximately 25 participants from the Ministries of Finance, Reserve Banks and Attorney General's Offices of Angola, Botswana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Held in Lilongwe (Malawi), the workshop was a joint training initiative of the Macroeconomic and Financial Management Institute of Eastern and Southern Africa (MEFMI) and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). Lalive.ch Alexander Troller page 4

5 UNITAR Training workshop The Legal Aspects of Debt and Financial Management for Officials from the Nigerian Debt Management Office Nigeria, 6-10 December 2004 Speaker: Managing public debt The workshop was attended by 16 participants from the Nigerian Debt Management Office, under a training initiative sponsored by Crown Agents and hosted by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). UNITAR/IMF Training Workshop Negotiation Skills and Dispute Resolution Tashkent, 4-8 October 2004 The workshop was attended by approximately 40 participants from the Ministries of Finance and Central Banks of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Azerbaijan. It was a joint training initiative of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). UNITAR/BEAC/BCEAO Training Workshop Negotiation and drafting of clauses specific to loan agreements Lomé (Togo), 8 to 13 August 2004 Speaker and training workshop director The workshop was held in Lomé, Togo, and was attended by participants from the Ministries of Finance and other relevant government agencies from the countries of Francophone Western and Central Africa. The workshop was a joint training initiative of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), the Banque des Etats d'afrique centrale (BEAC) and the Banque centrale des Etats d'afrique de l'ouest (BCEAO). Academic Positions Expert-consultant United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) Senior Special Fellow for the legal aspects of public debt management, international borrowings and negotiation of loan agreements for developing countries Lalive.ch Alexander Troller page 5