Dentons has continued its push into the Latin American and Caribbean markets by expanding its web
of verein - style partnerships to Monterrey in Mexico.
The move, which follows a partner vote in favour of raising capital contributions last month, does not include the UK partnership or any other part
of the verein - structured firm.
As an advert for the merits
of verein firms, King & Wood Mallesons is not doing a great job right now.
Not exact matches
Deloitte refers to one or more
of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, a Swiss
Verein, and its network
of member firms, each
of which is a legally separate and independent entity.
Thanks to Germany's property wunderkind, Rolf Elgeti — who's (naturally) on the Colonia & Bau -
Verein zu Hamburg boards, but is also (more surprisingly) on the boards
of Sirius Real Estate & Estavis (and Treveria (TRV: LN), up'til Apr - 12)!
Stephanitz, recognizing the incredible versatility
of this dog, in 1899, established the SV (Schaferhund -
Verein).
This group, Der
Verein fur Deutsche Schaeferhunde (sv) was founded by Max von Stephanitz, a cavalry officer known as the father
of the breed.
Sponsored by the
Verein fur Deutsche Schaferhunde, the parent club
of the breed founded in 1899 in Germany, the cult
of the Shepherd spread rapidly from about 1914 onward in many parts
of the world.
2014 The Chosen, Jewish Museum, Miami Beach, FL MIA - ATL, Curated by William Cordoba; Saltworks Gallery, Atlanta, GA Dialog — Monolog, Syker Vorwerk Zentrum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Bremen, Germany Overview Galleries / Global Positioning Systems, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL The past is more infinite than the future, Curated by William Cordova, MDCC North Campus Gallery, Miami, FL MIA - BER, Curated by William Cordova,
Verein Berliner Künstler, Berlin, Germany Perder la forma humana, Una imagen sísmica de los anos ochenta en America Latina, Curated by Red Conseptualismos del Sur at MUNTREF, Buenos Aires, Argentina Radio Miami Rosell Meseguer, Curated by Glexis Novoa, Art Center
of South Florida, Miami, FL Caribbean: Crossroads
of the World, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL Lost in Landscape, Cuarated by Gerardo Mosquera at Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Trento, Italy Cuban America, Curated by Yuneikys Villalonga & Susan Hoeltzel, Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, NY
Besides the presentation
of contemporary and current art in all artistic areas in the Gallery
of the VBK, the
Verein Berliner Künstler (founded in 1841) dedicates itself to international artist exchange and critical discourse about art and society.
Jahrhundert, property
of the Städelscher Museums -
Vereins e.V. © Mary Heilmann
The exhibition is made possible by
Verein der Freunde der Nationalgalerie and with the generous support
of BMW.
Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, jointly owned with the Städelscher Museums -
Verein e.V. © JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., and Patricia A. Gallagher, Trustees
of the Renate, Hans and Maria Hofmann Trust, VG Bild - Kunst, Bonn 2016.
Preis der Nationalgalerie fur Junge Kunst Started in 2000 by the
Verein der Freunde der Nationalgalerie (Friends
of the National Gallery), this $ 50,000 prize rewards outstanding work by a young contemporary artist living in Germany.
The team has proven themselves to be innovators in the promotion and presentation
of art with a string
of endeavors and accomplishments including the founding
of Hartware Medien Kunst
Verein as an independent platform for the presentation
of contemporary art in 1996.
Since the foundation
of the association
Verein Kunsthalle Zürich in 1985, Kunsthalle Zürich has been a centre for cultural exploration at the very highest level.
In summer 2012 the gallery moved to Schöneberger Ufer in Tiergarten, where it is set in a historical building created in 1911 for the Berlin Association
of Female Artists (
Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen), which also housed the galleries
of Ferdinand Möller and the brothers Nierendorf.
Property
of Städelscher Museums -
Verein eV
Shulz, Josey and
Verein (2012) find a net loss
of -10 W / m2 on average from the Southern Ocean.
The majority
of Chadbourne lawyers will join NRF's US business, while London partners are expected to join the Norton Rose Fulbright LLP within the Swiss
verein, which comprises the legacy Norton Rose business.
Add in established alliances, like that
of Linklaters and Webber Wentzel, and
vereins like Norton Rose Fulbright, whose legacy firm Denys Reitz was well known in this area, and the ever - expanding Dentons, and that gives a flavour
of the event.
The Swiss
verein structured firm has launched a number
of initiatives to improve integration across all
of its offices
As things turned out, when SJ Berwin came on board in 2013, the
verein whole quickly became less than the sum
of its parts.
I had meant to take on something a bit less dry today, but here I am again on the scintillating subject
of law firm mergers structured with Swiss
vereins, or, if you strip away the jargon, unions that maintain separate profit pools.
A spouse generally has the right to dispose
of the body (Radomer Russ - Pol Unterstitzung
Verein v. Posner, 176 Md. 332).
At some point, clients have to wonder how much difference truly exists between a well run network and a Big Law firm Swiss
verein in terms
of branding, global reach and sophistication.
At the end
of last year the national firm set up a Swiss
Verein structure, named Cobbetts International, with the intention
of forming associations with overseas legal practices.
Vereins now account for five
of the world's 15 largest law firms by revenue, according to The American Lawyer «s Global 100 survey — including three
of the top six.
The merger, which follows six months
of negotiations, uses a Swiss
verein structure, which allows for separate regional profit pools and accounting while sharing strategy, branding, and other core functions.
The Swiss
verein, which allows firms to combine more easily and retain their existing forms, has been adopted in almost every major cross-border law firm tie - up
of the past decade, including those that created Dentons, DLA Piper, Hogan Lovells, King & Wood Mallesons, Norton Rose Fulbright and Squire Patton Boggs.
The firm said in a statement on Monday (21 November) that management
of the legacy SJ Berwin business is considering a range
of options — including a merger — after just 21 partners came out in support
of the rescue plan, which would have secured the partnership's position within the global KWM
verein.
DLA Piper has added 150 - lawyer Danish firm LETT to its Nordic
verein, following the addition
of Finnish firm Peltonen LMR last year.
The deal, which takes effect as
of 1 November, combines one
of Canada's top IP firms into the 3,756 - lawyer Swiss
verein that is DLA Piper.
GfK
Verein will retain its majority shareholding in GfK
of 56.46 % and the Management Board members intend to tender their personal shares.
GfK has been informed that GfK's majority shareholder GfK
Verein and KKR intend to jointly support GfK's further strategic transformation and pave the way for sustainable profitable growth and that they have entered into a shareholder agreement and a non-tender provision pursuant to which GfK
Verein will not tender any shares and will remain the majority shareholder
of GfK with a stake
of 56.46 percent.
It appears the government's reluctance to make a s 19 (1)(a) statement was due to the European Court
of Human Rights» (ECtHR) decision in VgT
Verein gegen Tierfabriken v Switzerland (2001) 34 EHRR 159.
A lot
of US firms have the
verein model, and are more
of a loose confederation, whereas we are tightly knit.
(This will be followed in 2012 by the recent wave
of trans - Atlantic mergers — Hogan Lovells, SNR Denton, and Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, which merged with U.K. firm Hammonds on January 1, 2011, but has retained its name — which are also structured as
vereins.)
Just ask Dentons whose recent disqualification in a well - publicized ruling by the Chief Judge
of the U.S. Court
of International Trade cast a harsh light on the
verein structure and the susceptibility
of its members to conflicts.
It is a member
of Taylor Wessing, a Swiss
Verein, the other members
of which are separate legal entities and separately registered law practices in particular jurisdictions.
These legal versions
of roll - ups have two basic forms
of economic structure: unified profit - sharing or, in the case
of Swiss
vereins, member firms retain their own balance sheets.
Assist on the structuring
of the combination whether by a full economic merger or a
verein type structure.
Many clients working on cross-border matters are indifferent as to the legal structure their law firms operate in, whether that be a fully financially integrated international firm, a Swiss
verein (which is effectively an association
of law firms operating under a common brand and with a level
of management and strategic co ordination, but usually without full profit - sharing between the member firms), an association, a network or a best friends arrangement.
There had been, in 2001, a decision by the European Court
of Human Rights (ECtHR) regarding an outwardly similar prohibition on political advertising in the broadcasting law
of Switzerland, in which the ECtHR had unanimously found that the rejection
of a television commercial proposed by an animal protection association amounted to a breach
of Art 10: Vgt
Verein gegen Tierfabriken v Switzerland (Application 24699 / 94)(2002) 34 EHRR 4.
(Like Baker & McKenzie and the recent batch
of transatlantic mergers, the firm is organized as a Swiss
verein — essentially a holding structure that lets participating entities maintain their existing forms.)