Commercial Clients
Underpinned by wide experience in the fields of banking and business law, CROCE & Associés SA is a well-informed contact for commercial companies.
It provides its advice to a wide variety of national and international firms and assists them at all stages in their development. CROCE & Associés SA uses its competence notably in the following domains:
> Living and working in Switzerland
- Work permits
- Posted workers
- Social security
- Tax declarations
- Employment law
> Commercial agreements
- Sales agreements and contracts for work
- Tenancy agreements and labor contracts
- License agreements (patents and trademarks)
- Transportation and distribution contracts (petroleum products, etc.)
- Service agreements (agency, brokerage, commission)
- Financing contracts (loan, bail bond, leasing)
> Company law
- Incorporation and domiciliation of companies
- Management and corporate governance
- Shareholder agreements
- Restructuring (mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, transfer of assets)
- Legal due diligence
- Corporate finance (credit facilities, structured finance)
- Tax and estate planning
> Banking and financial law
- Preparing and obtaining permits (banking licenses, securities dealers, investment funds)
- Organisation of banking activities
- Financial markets regulations (anti-money laundering and KYC rules)
- Stock exchange regulations (listing, IPO, ad hoc publicity, reporting obligations, takeover bids)
- Asset management companies formation
> Intellectual Property
- Copyrights
- Trademarks
- Patents
- Designs
> Maritime Law
- Charterparty and carriage of goods by sea
- Insurances (P&I Clubs, etc.) and collisions
- Admiralty jurisdiction
- Law of the sea
> Aviation law
- Aircraft registration, financing, purchase and sale
- Airspace and rules of the air
- Responsibility in air transport
- Aircraft impoundments and confiscation
> Litigation and arbitration
- Representing clients before the authorities and administrative courts (tax authorities, competition Commission and financial market regulatory authorities)
- Representing clients before the civil courts (employment law, commercial law, banking law and tenancy law)
- Representing clients before the authorities and criminal courts (financial crimes and offences)
- E-commerce disputes (mediation, arbitration, online dispute resolution, etc.)
- Bankruptcy and deeds of arrangement
- Mutual legal assistance in civil, criminal and administrative cases
- Commercial mediation and arbitration
> European Union law and international private law
- Free movement of goods, services and capital
- Competition law
- Transport law
- The Rome, Lugano and Brussels Conventions
