Dr. Kevin MacCabe

Attorney at Law, Dr. iur.

He puts his legal expertise and distinct technical knowledge at your disposal for complex transactions and the implementation of innovative FinTech projects.

About

Kevin MacCabe's practice focuses on M&A and corporate law as well as on finance and banking law. He advises Swiss and international companies and entrepreneurs on transactions (acquisitions, exits, financing rounds and joint ventures) and on regulatory matters. As a member of the Startup Desk, he has in-depth expertise in advising founders in all phases of the life cycle of a startup, from incorporation, financing rounds to exit strategies. He also regularly advises venture capital investors (business angels, VCs, CVCs) on all aspects of investments.

Furthermore, Kevin MacCabe advises clients on the implementation of FinTech projects with a particular emphasis on blockchain technology. Being the author of a doctoral thesis on asset tokens, he has both legal and technical expertise in this area. In addition to his work as an attorney, Kevin MacCabe is a lecturer at the University of Basel.

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Languages

  • German
  • English
  • French

Experience

Ranking & Awards
Board of Directors and association mandates
Career
Memberships
Education
Further Activities
  • Faculty Prize of the University of Basel Faculty of Law for the best law dissertation 2019
  • Prof. Walther Hug Prize 2021
  • Chairman of the Board of Wellevate AG
  • Since 2024: Senior Associate at Kellerhals Carrard, Basel
  • 2021-2023: Associate at Kellerhals Carrard, Basel
  • Since 2021: Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Basel
  • 2019–2021: Attorney at Lenz & Staehelin, Zurich
  • 2018–2019: Research assistant at the University of Basel, chair of Prof. Dr. Corinne Widmer Lüchinger
  • 2015– 2017: Traineeships in law firms and at the Basel-Landschaft Ost Civil District Court
  • 2013–2015: Assistant at the University of Basel, chair of Prof. Dr. Corinne Widmer Lüchinger
  • Bar Association Basel
  • Swiss Bar Association (SAV/FSA)
  • Basel Association of Lawyers
  • 2019: Dr. iur., University of Basel
  • 2017: Admitted to the bar, Canton Basel-Stadt
  • 2015: MLaw, University of Basel
  • 2014: BLaw, University of Basel
  • Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Basel

Scientific publications

Scientific publicationsMonographs & reference books
1. November 2019

Die Abbildung von Vermögenswerten durch Anlage-Tokens, Diss. Basel 2019.

Dr. Kevin MacCabe
Scientific publicationsArticles
1. September 2018

Eigentum an digitalen Daten im sachenrechtlichen Sinne, Jusletter IT 26. September 2018, Zürich 2018.

Dr. Kevin MacCabe
Scientific publicationsArticles
1. October 2017

Die Haftung des Erstunternehmers nach schweizerischem Entsendegesetz - Materiell- und kollisionsrechtliche Fragen, in: Müller, Roland / Pärli, Kurt / Wildhaber, Isabelle (Eds.), Arbeit und Arbeitsrecht, Festschrift für Thomas Geiser zum 65. Geburtstag, Zürich 2017. Co-Author: Prof. Dr. Corinne Widmer Lüchinger

Dr. Kevin MacCabe
Scientific publicationsArticles
21. February 2017

Die gestohlene Zeichnung: Übungsfall mit Lösung, ius.full 1/2017, Zürich 2017. Co-Author: Prof. Dr. Corinne Widmer Lüchinger

Dr. Kevin MacCabe
Scientific publicationsMonographs & reference books
15. October 2015

Der neurechtliche Schuldbrief und das Doppelzahlungsrisiko, Zürich 2015.

Dr. Kevin MacCabe
Scientific publicationsArticles
15. June 2015

Vertragliche Regelung von Verjährungsfristen im internationalen Warenkauf, ius.full 5/2015, Zürich 2015.

Dr. Kevin MacCabe

Contact

Basel

Henric Petri-Strasse 35
P.O. Box 257
CH-4010 Basel

Tel. +41 58 200 30 00
Fax +41 58 200 30 11

info@kellerhals-carrard.ch

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Basel ∣ Bern ∣ Geneva ∣ Lausanne ∣ Lugano ∣ Sion ∣ Zurich


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