Ten industry desks,
one point of contact.

Ten sector desks: fintech and crypto, PE/VC and fund managers, international holdings and MNEs, private clients and HNWIs, family offices, trading and commodities, startups and VC, biotech and life sciences, staffing and recruitment, and legal and consulting firms. Each desk bundles the licences, structures and services its sector uses most.

Because the same service carries different risk depending on who buys it. A crypto exchange and a commodities trader both need AML, but the regulator's expectations, the audit triggers and a bank's onboarding appetite differ sharply. A sector desk means the partner you speak to already knows where your industry trips up, so the first conversation starts a step ahead.

Yes — most desks are built for inbound work. Non-resident founders, foreign groups and international families setting up or moving to Switzerland get the substance, resident-director, licensing and banking steps that a cross-border structure needs, all under one partner.

The regulated and cross-border sectors — crypto, fund managers, payments and international holdings — because financial regulation has been the flagship practice since 2014. Those sectors sit at the core of the firm, not at the edge.

In most cases yes. The ten desks are the sectors where a distinct combination of questions recurs often enough to warrant a dedicated view; they are not the limit of the practice. What decides the matter is not the industry label but the underlying legal question. Once a mandate touches financial-market law, the money-laundering rules, company or tax law, it sits in one of our existing practices regardless of the sector heading. Describe what you do in two lines and we will confirm whether and how we act for it — the classification is part of our work, not your homework.

No. Goldblum and Partners is an independent corporate, regulatory and fiduciary firm, not a supervised financial institution and not a member of a self-regulatory organisation. Across the regulated sectors we advise and structure: we obtain the classification, run the licence or SRO application, build the anti-money-laundering framework and, for ongoing mandates, can act as the external AML officer. The licence itself is granted to the operating company and the supervisory responsibility rests with its management, not with the firm. Keeping that distinction clear is part of working properly in financial-market law.

By the core of the matter, not by a label. If it touches a licence, an SRO affiliation or the money-laundering rules, it goes to financial regulation; if it concerns tokens, stablecoins or a trading venue, to the crypto practice; formation, legal form and capital to company formation; tax, substance and cross-border structures to tax and accounting; succession, trusts and foundations to private clients. One partner then owns the file and pulls in the specialists, so the sector view and the technical work stay joined up from the first conversation to completion.