Not exact matches
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)!
In 2008 her works were
on view at the Goethe Institut, San Francisco and at the
Verein fuer aktuelle Kunst, Oberhausen.
Shulz, Josey and
Verein (2012) find a net loss of -10 W / m2
on average from the Southern Ocean.
The office, which will go live
on 1 May, will operate under a Swiss
verein structure.
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.
According to Seidel, DLA Piper will operate
on the Swiss
Verein model with the firms retaining their own profit centres.
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.
(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.
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.
But some critics suggest there will be a limit to the possibilities for integration because the various firms in the Dentons mix won't be sharing profits; rather, they'll continue to operate
on the Swiss
Verein model, an approach that allows member firms to join internationally under a single brand without sharing revenues or profits and thereby maintaining their independent status for liability and regulatory purposes.
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.