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NEWS & PUBLICATIONS

Borel & Barbey actively engages with legal developments by regularly contributing to specialised literature, participating in conferences, and being involved in the academic world.
This section provides you with an overview of the Firm’s latest news, including our publications, the conferences and talks we have participated in, recent cases we have handled, as well as the awards and distinctions we have received. You will also find important announcements and legislative developments that are shaping our legal environment.

Wealth Management and Law in Practice

22 February 2021
Arnaud Cywie will be teaching, along with Dr. Michel Girardin, the course “Wealth Management and Law in Practice” at the University of Geneva for the spring semester 2021. For more...

iusNet – Tax Law Module

18 January 2021
Arnaud Cywie is a member of the editorial team of the new tax law module of the iusNet platform set up by Schulthess. This platform, which has been online since November...

SECA Online Training

15 January 2021
Arnaud Cywie and Alexandre Gallopin will chair two days of the SECA’s online formation (Swiss Private Equity & Corporate Finance Association) starting February 11, 2021, with a presentation on Shareholders Conventions (Arnaud Cywie...

Strategic partnership in investment with social impact

8 December 2020
Asteria Investment Managers (Asteria), the recently launched impact investing firm controlled by REYL & Cie Ltd (REYL), is to enter into a strategic tie-up with Swiss impact private asset manager...

Bearer shares

30 October 2019
Bearer shares will no longer be authorized as from November 1, 2019, date on which the Federal Act on the Implementation of Recommendations of the Global Forum on Transparency and...

Memorandum n°70 – Draft amendments of the Anti-Money Laundering Act (AMLA)

23 September 2019
The Federal Council adopted in June 2019 its message on the draft of a major amendment to the AMLA following the FATF report.

Le Temps/Bilan Ranking

15 May 2019
We are very pleased to be ranked by Le Temps and Bilanz among the top law firms in Switzerland for the following practices: ·         Banking and finance...

Memorandum of Case Law – May 2018 to August 2018

3 October 2018
The Memorandum of Case Law summarizes a selection of decisions for the given period (in French).

Seminar on Management Package

28 September 2018
Alexandre Gallopin and Arnaud Cywie will be teaching a seminar on Management Package as part of a training program organized by the Swiss Private Equity & Corporate Finance Association (SECA). Registrations are open...

Acquisition of Dynagest SA by Banque Profil de Gestion SA

9 August 2018
Borel & Barbey advised the shareholders of Dynagest SA, a Geneva based institutional asset manager, in relation to the acquisition of the entire share capital of Dynagest SA by Banque...

New publication in art law

29 May 2018
The online legal resource platform Getting the Deal Through has just published a Q&A on art law. For each country, art lawyers have answered the most common questions arising when...

Memorandum of Case Law – February 2018 to April 2018

15 May 2018
The Memorandum of Case Law summarizes a selection of decisions for the period in question (in French).

Borel & Barbey is ranked as one of the top law firms in Switzerland

4 May 2018
The Swiss finance magazine BILANZ and the newspaper Le Temps have published the 2018 ranking of the leading law firms in Switzerland, according to a survey of more than 7’200...

Memorandum de jurisprudence – novembre 2017 à janvier 2018

26 February 2018
This document (only in French) provides a summary of judicial decisions published during the concerned time period.

Draft bill which proposes the conversion of bearer shares into registered shares

2 February 2018
On 17 January 2018, the Swiss Federal Council published a draft bill which proposes the conversion of bearer shares into registered shares by operation of law and thereby would abolish...