Barbara Levi (pictured) will be UBS new Group General Counsel, effective 1 November 2021. She will succeed Markus Diethelm, who after 13 years as Group General Counsel of the bank, has decided to step down from his role. He will remain in a senior advisor role into 2022 with responsibility for select legacy litigation cases. Markus joined […]
Renato Costantini (pictured) is the new general counsel for Credit Suisse’s Swiss unit, where he will also be an executive board member of Credit Suisse and of the Swiss Universal Bank division’s management
Christian Haitz (pictured) will be the new General Counsel Corporate and M&A at Gategroup, one of the global leaders in airline catering, retail-on-board and hospitality products and services headquartered in Zurich. Haitz comes
Franco-German defence giant KNDS has named Nick Surber its new general counsel. KMW+Nexter Defense Systems (KNDS) is a European defence industry holding company, which is the result of the merger between Germany’s Krauss-Maffei
Three new lawyers entered Wenger & Vieli in April 2021: Christian Hofstetter (pictured – left), Tatjana Merz (pictured – centre) and Una Paunovic (pictured – right). As a member of the Transactions practice group, Christian Hofstetter mainly works in
Moderna, a biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines, announced that Shannon Thyme Klinger (pictured) will join the Company as Chief Legal Officer, effective June 1, 2021.
Yvonne Pieles (pictured) is moving from VISCHER to burckhardt in Basel, where she becomes a partner as of March 2021.
Novartis announced that Shannon Thyme Klinger (pictured) Chief Legal Officer, has decided to resign from Novartis and return to the US to take an executive role at a biotechnology company. Ms. Klinger will step down
Wella named Herminie Simonetta (pictured) as new group chief legal officer following the completion of its sale by Coty last December (but announced earlier in 2020). She was previously a senior vice president at Coty and
Pierre Tercier (pictured) has joined the firm Peter & Kim as senior counsel in Geneva. Tercier is the former president of the ICC International Court of Arbitration. He has been practising independently since 2008 and has
