Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority appoints a new chair for the Swiss Takeover Board after current head resigns.
Switzerland's Financial Market Supervisory Authority (Finma) has appointed Mirijam Eggen as the chair of the Swiss Takeover Board, taking over from Thomas Mueller, it said in a statement Monday.
Eggen, a professor of private law at the University of Bern, has been a member of the commission since 2017. From 2010 to 2015 she oversaw work leading to the creation of the federal financial services act (FinSA).
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Mueller for his part has been a member of the takeover board since 2012, chairing it since 2016. He resigned from the board to focus on his new mandate as chairman of the board of Raiffeisen Switzerland, according to the statement.
Both Eggen's assumption of the chair and Mueller's stepping down are effective as of June 1. Eggen will serve the remaining term, which runs through the end of 2023.
