Switzerland

One of the most important challenges facing international in-house counsel is building and sustaining effective relationships with outside counsel across multiple jurisdictions. By “effective” I mean those which result in...Read more

Suddenly your ever growing portfolio of responsibilities includes ethics and compliance. How should you look at the existing program or start to build a program? What does success look like?...Read more

In recent years we have observed a rising internal and external pressure on companies to improve their sustainability-related performances; companies responded with an exponential increase in sustainability reporting and planning...Read more

The first thing many people think of when they hear the term ‘smart contract’ is a contract that is somehow transposed into computer code and runs without any human intervention....Read more

I am glad to share my experience and the challenges I am facing today, as the general counsel of a pharmaceutical company but not only that. I have been an...Read more

Non-disclosure agreements (“NDAs”) for any corporation are an important tool to protect the exchange of information and avoid material legal fees and costs that may arise as result of a...Read more

Many factors are changing legal services as we know them. We are seeing the internal and external environment changing the banking model and business needs. Increased regulatory requirements, the evolving...Read more

On February 9th, 2014, the Swiss citizens voted in favour of the Swiss federal popular initiative “Stop Mass Immigration” launched by the national conservative Swiss People’s Party (SVP) by a...Read more

“Historically, the in-house counsel position was considered a dusty professional legal service essentially dealing with dispute resolution; rarely was the in-house counsel expected to be involved in strategic thinking”....Read more