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CMS ad­vised the share­hold­ers of agta re­cord on the...
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Deal (News)
Feb 2019
CMS Cor­por­ate/M&A Group
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Brochure
March 2018
CMS European M&A Study 2018
Tenth Edi­tion - 2018
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CMS Ex­pert Guide for Dir­ect­ors of Com­pan­ies
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Expert Guide
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Corporate / M&A
30 Mar 20
EU Com­mis­sion calls for closer scru­tiny of for­eign dir­ect in­vest­ment
Non-EU in­vestors may be con­fron­ted with more ri­gid clear­ance pro­cesses when at­tempt­ing to ac­quire EU com­pan­ies as a res­ult of an un­pre­ced­en­ted call for ac­tion by the European Com­mis­sion. In a policy pa­per...
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Law-Now Corporate / M&A
24 Apr 20
CMS again achieves top po­s­i­tions in BIL­ANZ / Le Temps...
Ranked as one of the best law firms in Switzer­land
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News Real Estate & Construction
23 Mar 20
Gen­er­al Meet­ings of Swiss Com­pan­ies – New rules due to Coronavir­us
Due to the on­go­ing spread of the coronavir­us in Switzer­land, the Swiss Fed­er­al Coun­cil is­sued an amended ver­sion of the COV­ID-19-Or­din­ance 2 (Or­din­ance) on 16 March 2020. By way of such amend­ment, the...
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Law-Now Coronavirus (COVID-19)
15 Apr 20
New rank­ings from "The Leg­al 500" for CMS Switzer­land
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News Insurance
16 Mar 20
European in­sur­ance re­cov­ery and res­ol­u­tion frame­work now an in­ev­it­ab­il­ity
For a long time, the in­sur­ance in­dustry has suc­cess­fully ral­lied against at­tempts to in­tro­duce a re­cov­ery and res­ol­u­tion re­gime sim­il­ar to the Bank Re­cov­ery and Res­ol­u­tion Dir­ect­ive (BRRD). However, EIOPA’s...
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Law-Now Corporate / M&A
06 Apr 20
CMS ad­vised Har­ald Quandt In­dus­trieb­eteili­gun­gen GmbH
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Deal (News) Corporate / M&A
23 Dec 19
A new EU op­er­a­tion­al re­si­li­ence frame­work for cy­ber se­cur­ity?
Our re­cent Law-Now art­icle dis­cussed the FCA, PRA and Bank of Eng­land con­sulta­tions on im­prov­ing fin­an­cial sta­bil­ity in the UK mar­kets through op­er­a­tion­al re­si­li­ence. Con­tinu­ing this theme, but now from...
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Law-Now Insurance
31 Mar 20
CMS ad­vises Halder on the ac­quis­i­tion of Sirag, Univer...
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Deal (News) Corporate / M&A
30 Oct 19
EU auto in­dustry turns to 'ac­quis­i­tion and hir­ing' to build com­pet­it­ive...
In the mod­ern era, di­git­al­isa­tion is dis­rupt­ing es­tab­lished busi­ness mod­els and the auto­mot­ive in­dustry is no ex­cep­tion. In or­der to stay com­pet­it­ive, auto­makers must ad­apt to the chal­lenges of elec­tric...
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Law-Now Corporate / M&A
CMS Ex­pert Guide to Sta­bil­isa­tion and Re­struc­tur­ing...
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Expert Guide
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Banking & Finance
24 Oct 19
Busi­ness now feel­ing the ef­fects of GDPR in M&A trans­ac­tions
Auto­mot­ive, health­care and fin­an­cial ser­vices are prime ex­amples of sec­tors that are un­der­go­ing rap­id di­git­al change. This trans­form­a­tion in the di­git­al en­vir­on­ment is caus­ing busi­ness mod­els to be rad­ic­ally...
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Law-Now Corporate / M&A
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