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12 August 2020 Start-up Mansard Chats - 27 August 2020
We are happy to host a start-up event in collaboration with KSquared GmbH on 27 August 2020, 6.30pm, at our Zurich office and online. Making mistakes in your legal area during your early start-up stages will sooner or later become fatal along the road. Our experts will share their knowledge to avoid these preventable errors. The event hosts a panel discussion about the essential funding process, lessons learned, and is helping you receiving funds from the right partners in a less cumbersome way. We are looking forward to welcoming you at our joint event!
How Covid-19 has Fostered Switzerland's International Litigation Hub
11 August 2020In this contribution to the newcomer Swiss Chinese Law Review, Philippe Vladimir Boss and Cyrill Süess discuss the efforts made by Swiss lawmaker to render Swiss legal framework more attractive for international litigation and to what extent the COVID crisis impacts these efforts.
11 August 2020 Philippe Vladimir Boss graduates from the Certificate of Advanced Studies in International Sports Law at the University of Zurich
In this leading program taught by prominent figures of the sports industry, all major legal issues are discussed (integrity, governance, anti-doping, match-fixing, CAS procedures, transfers, events contracts…). Thanks to the outstanding education and results obtained, Philippe continues to bring legal support to international federations and officials mainly on sport integrity issues (good governance, disciplinary proceedings, match-fixing, anti-doping, clubs’ multi-ownership).
Duty to cooperate in sports disciplinary proceedings
29 July 2020In his latest contribution published by the Bulletin of the Court of Arbitration for Sports, Philippe Vladimir Boss reviews to what extent statements made by individuals subject to a disciplinary proceeding may be admissible in a criminal proceeding conducted by Swiss authorities
BianchiSchwald advised the Swiss Confederation in relation to its partial guarantee of a CHF 120,000,000 credit facility for SR Technics Switzerland AG
21 July 2020BianchiSchwald advised the Swiss Confederation, represented by the Swiss Federal Department of Finance and the Swiss Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications, as surety provider for part of a CHF 120,000,000 credit facility to SR Technics Switzerland AG (SR Technics) in the context of a CHF 145,000,000 and CHF 120,000,000 financing transaction with Credit Suisse (Switzerland) Ltd. as mandated lead arranger and coordinator, agent, security agent and lender and a consortium consisting of Raiffeisen Schweiz Genossenschaft, Basellandschaftliche Kantonalbank and Basler Kantonalbank as lenders.
The aviation industry has been severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Given that the aviation industry provides for an economically critical infrastructure and in order to ensure that Switzerland remains connected to the international air transport system, the Swiss Confederation, based on a credit line of CHF 600 Mio. approved by the Swiss parliament, supports the financing with a surety covering 60% of the CHF 120,000,000 Facility B. SR Technics has its headquarters in Kloten and provides critical line maintenance required for the operation of Switzerland's airports.
BianchiSchwald advised the Swiss Confederation with regard to all legal aspects of the transaction. The BianschiSchwald team was led by partner Thomas Schmid (Banking and Finance, Restructuring & Insolvency) and included partner Stefan Scherrer (Corporate and M&A), associate Andreas Suter (Corporate and M&A), Stipe Jozic (Corporate and M&A) and junior associate Samuel Streuli.
18 June 2020 Applying the arm’s length principle to group synergies
Sébastien Maury published an article in the IBFD International Price Transfer Journal analyzing the possibility to apply the arm’s length principle to group synergies, knowing that these notions are supposedly antagonistic.