Much snootiness still remains, but the Vereins are actually fine

Much snootiness still remains, but the Vereins are actually fine

While Legal Business is not the type of publication to force a tenuous link in order to make a feature topical, isn’t it timely that our Global 100 analysis on law firms structured as Swiss Vereins – ‘Capture the flag’ – coincides with the football World Cup of FIFA (also a Verein)?

Joking aside, this deep dive into the six firms which have adopted the model – CMS, Baker McKenzie, Dentons, Squire Patton Boggs, Norton Rose Fulbright and DLA Piper – is nevertheless pertinent, coming as it does a full decade after the first firms implemented the structure in earnest.

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