Professor Franca Contratto

- 2020: Full Professor of Private Law, Corporate Law & Securities Regulation, University of Lucerne, Faculty of Law - 2019: Assistant Professor of Corporate Law & Securities Regulation, University of Lucerne, Faculty of Law - 2015 to present: Member of the Swiss Takeover Board - 2013 to 2019: Assistant Professor of Financial Market Law, University of Zurich, Faculty of Law - 2010 - 2012: Swiss National Science Foundation Research Fellowship - 2008 - 2012: Lecturer at the Universities of Bern, Fribourg and Zurich (School of Applied Science) - 2008: LL.M. Georgetown University Law Center, Washington D.C. (with Distinction / Dean's list) - 2007 - 2008: Professor Heinrich Kronstein Fellow & Swiss National Science Foundation Fellow, Washington D.C. - 2006: Dr. iur. (SJD equivalent), University of Fribourg, Faculty of Law (summa cum laude / Professor Walther Hug Prize / Vigener Prize) - 1999 - 2005: various positions in legal practice as attorney-at-law and inhouse legal counsel (UBS AG, SIX Swiss Stock Exchange) - 1999: Admission to the bar - 1997: Licentiata iuris (JD equivalent), University of Fribourg, Faculty of Law