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About the Firm

Mission Statement
Our commitment is to focus on you and your short and long term corporate needs. After a careful analysis of the outset we consistently and efficiently work towards the objective that has initially been defined with you. Your trust is our basis, the resolution of your problems is our business and your satisfaction is our success.

Areas of Practice
Specialisation is the prerequisite for excellent legal counseling and the successful conduct of negotiations and court trials. That is why we are focusing on the following commercial and corporate areas of practice, in which are experienced.

Business:

• Incorporations
• Private equity and venture capital transactions
• Corporate governance (incl. D&O liability claims) and corporate housekeeping
• Mergers and acquisitions, LBOs and MBOs, Joint Ventures, restructurings and reorganizations
• Recapitalizations and liquidations
• Commercial contracts (in particular purchase, labour, rental, leasing, license, distribution and agency agreements, general terms and conditions)
• Employee stock ownership plans
• Competition and trust law

Finance:

• Regulatory issues of financial intermediaries (banks, securities dealers, stock exchanges, collective investment schemes, in particular investment funds, asset managers, investment advisors) and persons charged with the management and the admistration with regard to admission, supervision etc.
• Support of banks and other companies with regard to all laws regulating the capital and the financial markets (in particular Federal Act on Stock Exchanges and Securities Trading, Collective Investment Schemes Act, Federal Law on Banks and Savings Banks)
• Consulting (and in selected cases also criminal defense) regarding the requirements of the Money Laundering Act, the international standards of money laundering control (AML) and financing of terrorism (CFT) and corruption

Technology:

• IT outsourcing agreements and service level agreements (including outsourcing in the financial sector)
• All types of license and IP agreements
• Work, development, maintenance and support agreements, escrow agreements for technology products (software, hardware, equipment and industrial products)
• Legal coordination of technology projects
• Know how protection and transfer agreements
• Data protection aspects

Other Areas of Law:
In other areas of law (e.g. taxes, trademarks and patents) we provide legal advice in cooperation with experienced national and international law firms and specialists.
 
Memberships:

• Zurich Bar Association
• Swiss Bar Association
• International Chamber of Commerce, Switzerland (ICC Switzerland)