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Members of our Corporate | M&A team in Zurich have contributed a publication on corporate governance in Switzerland in Lexology's Getting The Deal Through series. You can find the article of Thomas Schmid, Stefan Scherrer and Norbert Schenk by clicking on the following link : 

Every year, six student trainees receive the opportunity to look behind the scenes at BianchiSchwald's Zurich office during their semester break. This year again, we are providing a practical training program full of variety in our practice areas over a period of four weeks. In addition, our student trainees get to know our locations in Switzerland on several excursions. Last week, one of the highlights was the construction site visit to the Swiss Life Arena in Zurich, the new “home base” of the ZSC Lions.

Chiara Kägi, Alexander Maritz, Sarah Schöb, Rinaldo Poltera (Office Manager), Elias Wazzau, Kim Fankhauser, Andri Spälti, Sara Hampel (Junior Associate), Andreas Suter (Associate) and Fabian Akeret (Associate).

In its July edition, Reports Legal's editorial team interviewed Managing Partner Thomas Goossens regarding the situation of law firms despite Covid challenges. Among colleagues from several major Swiss law firms, he reviewed what had been the activity over the past year and shares his projections for 2021.

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).