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Marcus Altenburg.

Marcus Altenburg is Managing Partner at Goldblum and Partners and leads the firm’s financial-regulation practice: FINMA and SRO licensing, AML compliance, and the corporate structures around them. He is the point of contact on the mandates he runs, and the named author behind the firm’s regulatory and corporate guidance.

Marcus Altenburg, Managing Partner at Goldblum and Partners

About Marcus

Marcus Altenburg leads Goldblum and Partners, the independent Swiss corporate, regulatory and fiduciary firm he has built around financial regulation. The firm has operated since 2007; under his direction it made FINMA and SRO licensing, AML and the regulated-entity structures around them its main field from 2014, and has been recommended by IFLR1000 in Banking & Finance across consecutive editions since 2014.

His work is the regulatory and corporate side of doing business in and from Switzerland: securing the right FINMA licence or SRO affiliation, building the substance and governance that make a Swiss structure hold up, and keeping it in good standing afterwards. He keeps the team small and senior, bringing in tax, audit and IP specialists for the matters that need them, and stays personally involved in the mandates he runs rather than handing them down. He is a lawyer and a member of the Bar, and a member of the International Bar Association (IBA); he is certified in AML/CFT compliance by VQF and ARIF, both FINMA-recognised self-regulatory organisations. ITR World Tax 2026 ranks him Highly Regarded for Swiss corporate tax.

What he works on

  • Financial regulation: FINMA authorisation, asset-manager and securities-firm licences, banking and FinTech, payment and crypto institutions;
  • AML & SRO: SRO membership, AML frameworks, and the ongoing compliance that keeps a licence in good standing;
  • Corporate & substance: company formation, holding and SPV structures, and the Swiss substance that supports them;
  • Digital assets: token classification, stablecoin rulings and the DLT licensing regime.

How he writes

The guidance published under his name is written to be accurate first: it states where a rule does not apply, what the thresholds actually are, and when a structure is the wrong answer, not only when it is available. It reflects the firm’s position that good regulatory work is about getting the characterisation right before any application is filed, and being honest with a client about cost, timing and risk.

Get in touch

Marcus reviews enquiries on the work he leads personally. You can reach him through the firm at info@goldblum.ch or +41 44 515 25 90, connect on LinkedIn, or read more about the firm and the financial-regulation practice he leads.

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