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BianchiSchwald acted as legal counsel for Banque Profil de Gestion SA in its purchase of One Swiss Bank SA, which closed on June 1, 2021, the subsequent merger between both banks and the change of its shareholder of reference. The assets under management of the merged bank, now renamed ONE swiss Bank SA (https://oneswissbank.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/BPDG_20210604_DecisionsAGE2021-1.pdf), amount to nearly CHF 5 billion right after closing.

BianchiSchwald assisted the bank throughout this complex transaction, in particular, with all contractual, corporate, regulatory, tax, employment and stock exchange law related matters.

BianchiSchwald team was led by Thomas Goossens (managing partner and head of the Banking & Finance practice) and Hélène Weidmann (partner in the Corporate - M&A practice), and also included Joseph Merhai and Sebastien Maury (both partners, respectively, head and member of the tax practice), Stéphanie Fuld (partner, head of the Labour Law practice), as well as Elodie Le Guen (managing associate, Labour Law practice), Alexandra Schuvalov (associate Banking & Finance), Federico Abrar (associate Tax) and Thierry Burnens (associate IP and Data protection).

We were proud to bring our contribution to the success of this promising transaction in these challenging times for the banking industry.

We are pleased that BianchiSchwald has again been recognized in this year's ranking published by Bilanz | Handelszeitung | Le Temps as one of the best law firms in Switzerland. Our firm has been ranked among the leading law firms in 17 practice areas with top category rankings in IP, commercial | contracts, corporate, M&A and insolvency | restructuring.

For more information see Le Temps (French) or Bilanz (German).

For the third year in a row, we are proud that our IP practice area has been ranked Tier 2 : “The IP practice is composed of exceptionally skilled lawyers who are unparalleled experts in all dimensions of intellectual property law” | “Great knowledge and expertise in this field of law.”

To top it all, Christoph Gasser, Partner and Practice head of Intellectual Property, has been awarded “Leading individual” for the second time. “Super efficient, responsive and very knowledgeable and experienced.” | “His combination of lawyer and partner of the firm together with having been a patent judge is a perfect match”. Congratulations !