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Vischer sizes up Switzerland's new patent court as Homburger surveys the increasingly rocky terrain for Swiss boards...
14 Jan 2010 | 14:48
Switzerland: Reinventing the system
Switzerland is at the top of most charts measuring international competitiveness in innovation. The country issues more patents to protect intellectual property (IP) rights per capita than any other European country. On the legal side, Switzerland ...
13 Jan 2010 | 11:09 | 
Switzerland: A rocky decade
As the first decade of the 21st century draws to a close, the time has come to take stock: a lot has changed in the Swiss corporate governance landscape over the past 10 years. First, the takeover regulation which came into force in 1998 has provid...
13 Jan 2010 | 11:09 |
Independent Law Firms in Europe: Numbers crunched
Europe's independent firms have put expansion plans on hold, with the recession prompting fears among many managing partners that the risks of a tie-up with a like-minded firm could outweigh potential the benefits. Despite the opportunistic merger ...
01 Dec 2009 | 18:30
Independent Law Firms in Europe: A model of resilience
The global recession has done little to alter the faith of Europe's independents in the strength of their law firm models. While the global UK and US-based firms have been busy with internal housekeeping and the struggle for position in their home ...
01 Dec 2009 | 18:01
Eversheds recruits five partners for international network
Eversheds International has made five new lateral partner hires, with the network bulking up in South Africa, the Netherlands and Switzerland. The firm's Johannesburg office has seen the bulk of the hires, with the addition of three new partners. M...
19 Nov 2009 | 12:54
Eversheds Swiss ally gains new office in Geneva
Eversheds' Swiss ally has opened an office in Geneva, with the top 10 UK firm's international network now covering three sites in Switzerland. Schmid Eversheds merged with Geneva-based firm MCP Avocats earlier this month (1 February) and has rebranded...
17 Feb 2009 | 14:30
Freshfields and Links lead on £4.1bn rights issue
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Linklaters have landed roles on a £4.1bn rights issue for mining group Xstrata. The Swiss company has announced a discounted two-for-one rights issue, with a Freshfields team headed up by corporate partner Julian Ma...
29 Jan 2009 | 05:59
Switzerland: An island of calm
In a country renowned for its banking prowess, the financial turmoil of the last months has been keenly felt in Switzerland. While the financial haven is proving less than rosy for many bankers with two of its major institutions, UBS and Credit Suisse...
29 Jan 2009 | 02:05
Switzerland: Code breaking
It is a popular view that Swiss bank secrecy attracts undeclared, illegal money - that it exists only for this purpose and that the need for its removal is self-evident. Many believe that the first steps to achieve this have been successfully taken, w...
29 Jan 2009 | 02:03
Switzerland: Proceeding in a civilised manner
Although the substantive civil law of Switzerland has long been unified - the Swiss Civil Code recently celebrated its 100th birthday - this small country still affords itself the luxury of no less than 27 different systems of civil procedure. On many...
29 Jan 2009 | 02:01
Switzerland: Homeland security
In times of financial crisis, optimising the security packages for commercial loans which banks have, in the economically more stable past, granted - or which they now consider granting to their existing and new customers - has become an even more imp...
29 Jan 2009 | 02:00
UBS wealth management head in fraud charge
Raoul Weil, the chairman and CEO of the global wealth management and business banking division at UBS, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges that he helped US taxpayers avoid income taxes on assets in overseas accounts. According to the...
13 Nov 2008 | 05:49 |
UBS picks Sullivan as US counsel on $60bn bailout
Sullivan & Cromwell has landed a lead role for UBS after the Swiss National Bank and the Government of Switzerland created a fund for the bank to dump $60bn in illiquid assets, reports the Am Law Daily. The elite US firm is advising UBS, Switzerland's...
17 Oct 2008 | 12:40 |
Davis Polk wins lead on $43.7bn biotech takeover
Davis Polk & Wardwell has won the lead role on a $43.7bn (£21.9bn) biotech takeover bid, as Swiss healthcare group Roche offers to buy the remaining shares in US biotech company Genentech. Roche already owns 55.9% on Genentech, and the deal to purcha...
22 Jul 2008 | 16:48 |
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