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17.06.2022Foxstone SA closed its Series A financing round raising over CHF 10 millionBorel & Barbey advised Foxstone SA (https://www.foxstone.ch/) in the context of the structuring and the execution of a Series A financing round raising over CHF 10 mio.
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23.05.2022Article in Bilan Magazine: "Selling your SME without a family buyer"Luca Bozzo was interviewed for Bilan Magazine about "entrepreneurship by acquisition" which consists in bringing together an external buyer and a high potential SME with the support of co-investors.For more information, click here.
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02.05.2022CAS in International Cultural Heritage LawAs part of the CAS in Cultural Heritage Law of the University of Geneva, Anne Laure Bandle will give a lecture on philanthropy and the arts as well as on authenticity and the experts’ liability on 6 and 7 May 2022. For more information, please click here.
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29.04.2022Participation in the Alpine Conference organized by the STEP FederationArnaud Cywie will speak on May 5, 2022 at the Alpine Conference organized by the STEP Federation in Interlaken and will discuss tax aspects with respect to the introduction of trust law in Switzerland.For more information, please click here.
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22.04.2022STEF group has acquired Frigosuisse SA and an operating warehouseSTEF group, the European leader for temperature sensitive logistics, is strengthening its activities in Switzerland by acquiring the company Frigosuisse SA and an operating warehouse in Aargau.Borel & Barbey advised STEF Suisse SA and Immostef Suisse SA in connection with these acquisitions. The team was led by Arnaud Cywie and Alexandre Gallopin with the support of Clément Neveceral and Vincent Berger.
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13.04.2022TITAN Aviation Fuels has acquired AKRYLTITAN Aviation Fuels, one of the largest suppliers of aviation fuel products in the United States, has acquired AKRYL, an aviation fuel reseller with a world-wide digital fuel procurement platform based in Geneva, Switzerland. Borel & Barbey advised for the acquisition.
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12.04.2022iusNet Tax Law Retrospective 2021The iusNet Tax Law Retrospective 2021, to which Arnaud Cywie contributed as a member of the editorial team, has just been published!This book offers several sections, in particular summaries of recent case law, tax legislation as well as articles on specific tax law topics.For more information, please click here.
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11.04.2022Alpian SA obtained its banking license and closed its Series B+ financing round raising CHF 19 millionAlpian SA (www.alpian.com) obtained its banking license and successfully closed a Series B+ financing round raising CHF 19 million. Alpian SA is a company incubated by REYL Intesa Sanpaolo. The company aims at developing a fully digital platform through which to serve the mass affluent client segment, typically comprising individuals with investable assets ranging from CHF 100,000 to CHF 1 million. Borel & Barbey advised Alpian SA in the context of the structuring and execution of this Series B+ financing round. The team included Luca Bozzo, Alexandre Gallopin and Audrey Tasso.
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08.04.2022Lexology GTDT Art Law 2022Anne Laure Bandle and Arnaud Cywie cover the Swiss chapter of Lexology GTDT Art Law 2022 which has just been published.This publication is a quick reference guide enabling side-by-side comparison of national insights, including into buying and selling; export and import controls; taxation; borrowing against art; intellectual property rights; agency; auctions; spoliation during Nazi era; lending to museums; cultural patrimony; anti-money laundering; endangered species; consumer protection; art market regulators; and recent trends.For more information, please click here.
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01.04.2022Renovation work and lease terminationA reminder from the Federal Court: in his latest column in the Journal de l’Immobilier, in partnership with Le Temps, Me Patrick Blaser reviews a recent decision of the Federal Court (TF, 4A_435/2021 of February 14, 2022) concerning renovation work and lease termination. The article is available online.
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16.03.2022Continuing education of foundation boardsStéphanie La Roche spoke at the Foundation Board Academy on 10 March 2022 to present and discuss with participants aspects of good governance of charitable foundations, relations with the supervisory and tax authorities and the evolution of foundation law.The Foundation Board Academy is dedicated to the continuing education of foundation boards and was founded by Beate Eckhardt, expert in strategy and philanthropy and former Director of SwissFoundations, Professor Georg von Schnurbein, Director of the Center for Philanthropy Studies in Switzerland at the University of Basel, and Etienne Eichenberger, philanthropy consultant and managing partner of WISE philanthropy advisors.
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09.03.2022Artmyn SA – Acquisition by Invaluable, LLCInvaluable, the world’s leading online marketplace for premier auction houses selling fine and decorative arts and collectibles, has acquired the Swiss technology company Artmyn SA. Artmyn has developed an art-scanning technology for authenticating artworks and delivering unique digital representations of physical artwork and NFTs. Borel & Barbey advised Artmyn for this acquisition. The team was led by Anne Laure Bandle and Alexandre Gallopin.Artmyn scans artworks and captures tens of thousands of photographs with different light sources and spectrums, now including infrared lights. The process generates a 5D interactive file and a short immersive video containing more than 1.5 billion pixels — offering auction houses, consignors and buyers unparalleled views and feelings of texture for each scanned artwork (www.artmyn.com).
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18.02.2022Art and Cultural Property LawThe fascination around works of art and cultural property makes them objects that raise complex legal issues. Their protection calls for rules from the most diverse areas of national, international and European law. Moreover, works of art and cultural property pose legal challenges with regard to their creation, discovery, acquisition, sale, loan, donation, destruction and loss.This new book by Anne Laure Bandle and Marc-André Renold, published by Helbing Lichtenhahn Verlag, deals with the many facets of art and cultural property from a legal perspective. It covers, among other things, the protection of cultural property in times of peace and war, looted property and colonial property, the sale and attribution of art objects, the duty of care of art dealers and museums, copyright, cultural philanthropy and dispute resolution.
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14.02.2022Unpaid companies - The fatal weapon of the legal mortgageIn his latest legal column published in the Journal de l'immobilier in partnership with Le Temps, Patrick Blaser reminds us of the stakes of the legal mortgage when a company struggles to be paid in full at the end of a construction project. The article is available online.
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03.02.2022Civil Procedure WorkshopsAs part of the workshops on the Civil Procedure Code (CPC) organised by the committee of the Geneva Young Bar, Me Paul Hanna, together with Me Aude Longet-Cornuz, co-hosted a workshop on 3 February 2022, presenting practical advice about the hearing of witnesses, for lawyers and trainee lawyers.
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14.01.2022New partners and senior associatesBOREL & BARBEY strengthens its corporate, banking and finance as well as its sports departments by promoting Pierre Turrettini and Alexandre Gallopin to partners of the firm as of 1 January 2022.
Moreover, we are pleased to announce the arrival of Maria Chiriaeva who joins the corporate and the banking and finance departments with her broad practice in these fields, as well as Vincent Berger, certified tax expert and attorney-at-law with a strong practice in corporate taxation, who strengthens the tax department.The entire BOREL & BARBEY team welcomes its new partners and associates!