Franca Contratto

Franca Contratto Professor of Private Law, Corporate Law & Securities Regulation Faculty of Law University of Lucerne

Franca Contratto is a Professor of Private Law, Corporate Law & Securities Regulation at the University of Lucerne. She is Co-Director of the interdisciplinary Institute for Business and Regulation and a Co-Head of the Faculty’s ‘primius’ scholarship programme.

Contratto studied law at the Universities of Fribourg (Switzerland) and Exeter (UK). She holds a doctoral degree from the University of Fribourg and a habilitation from the University of Zurich.

Contratto is a member of the Swiss Takeover Board since 2015 and was appointed as the Vice-President of the Swiss Federal Audit Oversight Authority in 2024. She is regularly called on as an expert by authorities and for lawmaking projects- for example in 2012/13 with a view to the drafting of the Swiss Financial Services Act (FinSA).