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 Wegmann and France’s Nexter Systems. Shortly after restructuring its management bodies, the defence technology group KNDS is also strengthening its administrative management […]
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
As of January 2021, Philippe Wenker (pictured) moves from Blum & Grob to become partner at gbf. He specialises in aviation & transport as well as asset finance.
As of January 2021, Matthias Bürge (pictured) moved to Werder Viganò, after more than 20 years at Prager Dreifuss, where he became partner in 2008. Andreas Mikos (pictured left) has been part of the team since 2015. His
Before joining imkp, Fronzaroli worked for Zurich in the in-house group life insurance business for six years and was secretary of the board of trustees of various pension funds in Switzerland and the Principality of
