Switzerland’s law firms are not known for their overseas forays. Yet a quiet revolution is emerging in the market as the country’s lawyers look to target new sources of work. Compared with many of their neighbours, Swiss lawyers are not known for their overseas forays. Not for them representative offices in London, New York or Hong […]
The number of female partners working in independent European firms has risen by almost a third in five years, data gathered for The Lawyer European 100 2017 reveals.
Baker & McKenzie has taken a team of 10 lawyers including five partners from Swiss firm Froriep in Zurich.
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has opened its eighth European office, launching a high-stakes disputes outpost in Zurich.
At The Lawyer’s recent Global Collaboration Summit, law firms of all sizes expressed the growing strategic importance of referrals within their own firms as well as with other law firms in the region.
UBS has hired Credit Suisse lawyer Maria Leistner to be its wealth management general counsel in Zurich.
Davis Polk & Wardwell and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett have won top roles, alongside Bär & Karrer and Homburger, on China National Chemical Corporation’s (ChemChina) $43bn acquisition of Syngenta. Davis Polk & Wardwell represented the target, Syngenta, on US matters, with a team led by New York partner Louis Goldberg. As a Swiss-headquartered agrochemical and […]
Bär & Karrer, Homburger and Latham & Watkins have all won roles on private equity house EQT’s acquisition of Swiss-listed Kuoni Travel Holdings. Tourism company Kuoni turned to Swiss firm Homburger for advice, with Zurich-based managing partner Daniel Daeniker and corporate partner Daniel Hasler leading the team. They were assisted by partner Marcel Dietrich, who […]
Swiss firms have bagged major business from global brands such as GSK, Novartis and Crédit Suisse this year, while their Asia ventures have come good.
Winston & Strawn is to shut its Geneva office at the end of September, putting London and Paris at the heart of its international arbitration practice. Since the Geneva office was established in 1993, it has acted as one of the firm’s main international arbitration hubs. However, in a statement the firm revealed it […]
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has become one of only a few international firms to open in Geneva with the hire of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld partner Vanessa Liborio Garrido de Sousa. Liborio is the second partner to leave Akin Gump in recent months. Former office head Charles Adams left the firm recently following […]
The former head of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld’s Geneva office, Charles Adams, has been confirmed as the next US Ambassador to Finland. Adams’ nomination by president Barack Obama was confirmed by the US Senate on Wednesday (24 June) and he will take up his new duties at the end of July. Arbitration partner […]