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2008 

• Business Tax Reform II:  overview and applied examples
  
  Zurich
  October 2, 2008
  

  Dr Hugo Wyssen from the Tax Administration Authorities in Canton Zug, and Stefan Widmer and Reto Arnold, respectively partner and tax expert at Vischer, will be giving a Business Talk on October 2 at 5 pm on the new statutory provisions of the Business Tax Reform II.  Using applied examples, they will examine the issues arising from these latest developments, and will discuss how to plan for them effectively.

  
  
   
• Planning and implementing major construction projects
  
  Basel
  August 27, 2008
  
  Zurich
  August 28, 2008
  
  Partners from the VISCHER Real Estate Department are giving a client BusinessTalk on legal issues arising from real estate investments.
  
  The talk in Basel, on Wednesday 27th August will feature Dr Andreas C. Albrecht, Thomas Ziegler, and Jacqueline Burckhardt Bertossa, who will speak respectively on "Legal questions when planning and implementing major real estate projects - an interpretive outline", "Tax issues arising during the development and marketing of business properties and land reserves" and "The sale of one-floor units before the completion of the building".
  
  The talk in Zurich, on Thursday 28th August will feature Dr Andreas C. Albrecht, Thomas Ziegler, and Felix Meier-Dieterle who will speak respectively on "Legal questions when planning and implementing major real estate projects - an interpretive outline", "Tax issues arising during the development and marketing of business properties and land reserves" and "Special problems involving contracts for works" in construction projects.     

• Employee Stock Options in Practice: Taxes – Law - Finances
  
  Basel
  April 17, 2008
  
  On Tuesday, April 17th, 2008, in our offices in Basel, we are giving a client BusinessTalk on implications of employee stock option schemes. Dr. iur. Matthias Staehelin and lic. iur. Daniel Diller, attorneys from the VISCHER offices, together with Harry Welten, the CFO of Arpida, will discuss, inter alia, the effects of employee stock options on the profit and loss statement of a company, in accordance with the IFRS.    

• License agreements and antitrust law
  
  Zurich
  January 29, 2008
  
  Private cometition restrictions are being increasingly emphasized as a substitute for state trade barriers. The license agreement is proving to be a flexible instrument for controlling and restricting cross-border trade in goods protected under intangible property law beyond the possibilities deriving from industrial property rights. Antitrust law governing licensing is playing an important role in identifying and opposing restrictions. The objective of the Business Talk is to discuss problems at the interface between intangible property law and antitrust law and to set out options for avoiding breaches of antitrust law.        

2007  

• Fast-track justice: legal protection by way of provisional measures in corporate practice
  
  Basel
  November 15, 2007
  
  Zurich
  November 20, 2007
  
  "Legal protection by way of provisional measures in corporate practice" is the subject of two BusinessTalks which we will be organising at our Basel offices on 15 November 2007 and at our Zurich offices on 20 November 2007. Dr Christian Oetiker, Dr Thomas Weibel and Karin Graf, attorneys with VISCHER, will discuss the practical aspects of preparing and contesting provisional measures.

• New rules for taxation of trusts in Switzerland
  
  Zurich
  November 06, 2007
  
  VISCHER is pleased to introduce a selected audience to the principles of trust taxation arising from the circular letter of the Swiss Tax Conference of August 22, 2007. Lecturers are lic. iur. Fabian Baumer and lic. iur. Christoph Niederer. Dr Hubertus Ludwig will chair the evening.

• The discretion and leeway of company pension scheme officers
  
  Basel
  Oktober 17, 2007
  
  "The discretion and leeway of company pension scheme officers” is the subject of the business talk we will be organising on Wednesday, 17 October, at the Basel Hilton Hotel. Stronger regulation as a consequence of the first revision of the occupational pension scheme act and the raising of old age and survivors insurance contributions on non-regulated occupational pension scheme benefits threaten to stifle discretionary benefits. Participants representing the authorities, from the economic and political sectors, will discuss whether this is right or not.

• Mergers & Acquisitions - An important topic for all enterprises!
  
  Basel
  September 24, 2007
  
  Sooner or later, Mergers & Acquisitions become an important topic for all enterprises, as well as for their owners and management. At any time, a company may become a target for a takeover or a company may want to purchase a new business or to spin off a business unit. In each case, such transactions demand the full attention and management capacities of all persons involved, as well as good negotiation skills and knowledge of the legal framework. Our Business Talk shall demonstrate the various possibilities and "do's and don'ts" in structuring a M&A transaction. Special attention shall be given to the actual transaction management, the vendor due diligence and due diligence, as well as the balancing of the conflicting interests of seller and purchaser in drafting a purchase agreement.  

Business Talks are VISCHER-Conferences, mostly in cooperation with an external partner. A concretely interested audience is informed to a certain theme.