Acquisition International Magazine announced last week the winners of the 2018 Legal Awards. CROCE & Associés SA has been nominated for the second consecutive year “the best commercial law firm in Switzerland”. Each year Acquisition International presents awards to the individuals and firms that have performed exceptionally well in their dedicated respective legal sector. The […]
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On 1 June, the Federal Council launched a new consultation procedure with a view to amending the Anti-Money Laundering Act (AMLA) yet again. The latest targets to come into the sights of the authorities are “advisors”: lawyers, notaries, tax specialists and even accountants if they provide certain services, in particular company and trust creation, management
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At the end of April, the Council of States Legal Affairs Committee decided to follow its National Council counterpart and pass a committee motion requiring the government to prepare a bill to introduce trusts into internal Swiss law. As readers will recall, a trust is a legal relationship created when a settlor uses a trust
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Introduction The fourth EU money-laundering directive has only just been transposed into the national laws of the member states. Yet on 19 April, the European Parliament voted to adopt a new version (modification to directive (EU) 2015/849). Following the Paris and Brussels terrorist attacks and the Panama and Paradise Papers scandals, the EU has decided
Electronic book version Par Lorenzo CROCE, avocat aux barreaux de Genève et de Singapour, LL.M., TEP I) Introduction Ils sont russes, indiens, arabes ou français et résident au Royaume-Uni, principalement à Londres, depuis longtemps. Pourquoi ? Certainement pas pour le climat mais plutôt pour le régime fiscal ultra-favorable dont ils bénéficient. Malgré le Brexit et
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Last Wednesday, the Swiss Federal Council opened a consultation (lasting until 24 April 2018) into discontinuing bearer shares in Swiss companies limited by shares not quoted on the stock exchange. The draft bill will be debated by parliament in autumn 2018. If it becomes law, existing bearer shares will be converted automatically into registered shares.
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Introduction In late 2016, the Swiss Federal Assembly adopted the revision to the Federal Act on Foreign Nationals (LEtr) in order to implement the initiative against mass immigration accepted by the people and the cantons on 9 February 2014 (article 121a of the Constitution (Cst.) and more generally to fight unemployment in our country. A
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CROCE & Associés SA wishes you and your loved ones Happy Holidays and a New Year filled with health, peace and happiness. We look forward to seeing you again in January 2018.
From January 2018, the Swiss Financial Market Infrastructure Act (RS 958.1, FMIA) which came into force in early 2016, will require participants admitted to a trading venue (Swiss securities dealers, foreign participants authorised by the FINMA, etc.) to report all the information required for the transparent trading of securities. Similar requirements are already in place
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CROCE & Associés SA has just been announced as Swiss “Private Client Law Firm of the Year 2017” by the Lawyer Monthly Legal Awards. The Lawyer Monthly Legal Awards recognise the achievements of law firms and individuals who have delivered exceptional results for their clients over the past 12 months. The 2017 Lawyer Monthly Legal
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