Markus U. Diethelm

Markus U. Diethelm
Group General Counsel[1]
UBS AG
Personal details
Born (1957-10-22) 22 October 1957
Nationality Switzerland
Alma mater University of Zurich
Stanford Law School

Markus U. Diethelm (born 22 October 1957) is a Swiss businessman. Currently, he is Group General Counsel of UBS. In September 2008, Mr Diethelm was initially appointed as a member of the Group Executive Board of UBS, and subsequently to UBS Group AG in November 2014[2] and was appointed to the Executive Board with effect to 1 January 2007.[2] He has been Executive Board member of UBS Business Solutions AG between 2015 and 2016.

Education and professional memberships

Mr. Diethelm graduated with a law degree (lic.iur.) from the University of Zurich and a Master's degree (Master of Science of Law) and PhD (JSD) from Stanford Law School.[3]

Markus Diethelm is admitted as a Rechtsanwalt (attorney-at-law) to bar chamber in Zurich and as attorney-at-law in New York City.[2]

Career

In 1983, Mr Diethelm started his career with the Zurich law firm Bär & Karrer.[3]

He worked at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York City in 1988 as a foreign associate.[2] A year later, he practiced at New York's Shearman & Sterling, specializing in mergers and acquisitions.[3] In 1992, he joined a Los Angeles law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, focusing on corporate matters, securities transactions, litigation and regulatory investigations while operating out of the firm's Brussels and Paris offices. He stayed with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher until 1998.[2]

Swiss Re

On 1 April 1998, Mr Diethelm joined Swiss Re as Group Chief Legal Officer[4] and was appointed to the Executive Board with effect to 1 January 2007.[2]

Under his leadership, Swiss Re introduced a successful global model for the Group's legal and compliance organization.[4] Furthermore, Mr Diethelm played a key role in the company's World Trade Center litigation and in major corporate development transactions.[5]

UBS

Markus Diethelm became a member of the Group Executive Board and was appointed as Group General Counsel of UBS on 1 September 2008.[2] Following the restructuring process, he was appointed to the same position within the UBS Group AG in 2014.[2] He works closely with Colin Bell, the head of operational risk. [6] In 2009, Diethelm negotiated with the U.S Department of Justice Tax Division Attorney Kevin M. Downing in an investigation about tax fraud. The UBS paid $780 million and revealed several client names.[7]

Other mandates

Markus U. Diethelm is the Chairman of the Legal Committee of the Swiss American Chamber of Commerce.[8]

Mr Diethelm holds mandates as a member of the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation, the Swiss Advisory Council of the American Swiss Foundation, the Foundation Council of the UBS International Center of Economics in Society,[9] the Conseil de Fondation du Musée International de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge, and the Professional Ethics Commission of the Association of Swiss Corporate Lawyers.[2]

Published Articles

Diethelm, Markus U. 2001. "Globalization and the Future of the International Practice of Law from a General Counsel's Perspective of a Multinational Enterprise – A Navigator of Management and Steward of the 'Future of Law'?" In: Drolshammer, J. I. & Pfeifer, M. (eds.). The Internationalization of the Practice of Law." Netherlands: Kluwer Law International.

References

  1. ↑ https://www.ubs.com/global/en/about_ubs/corporate-governance/group-executive-board/cv-markus-diethelm.html
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Markus U. Diethelm CV". UBS.com. Retrieved 2015-11-16.
  3. 1 2 3 "Markus U. Diethelm: Executive Profile & Bibliography". Bloomberg Business. Retrieved 2015-12-28.
  4. 1 2 "Bloomberg Profile". bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2015-02-09.
  5. ↑ "Swiss Re appoints George Quinn as Chief Financial Officer as of 1 March 2007 - The Executive Board is further reinforced with three additional appointments" (PDF). Swiss Re. Retrieved 2006-12-15.
  6. ↑ "UBS Names Ulrich Koerner to Head Asset Management Unit". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2015-01-08.
  7. ↑ "How the U.S. cracked open secret vaults at UBS". Reuters.com. Retrieved 2015-01-08.
  8. ↑ "Leadership - American Chamber of Commerce Switzerland". Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce. Retrieved 2015-12-28.
  9. ↑ "UBS Center - Economics. For society". UBS Foundation of Economics in Society. Retrieved 2015-12-28.
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