Law Firms
Growing as Planned, Sonnenschein Opens New Office in Switzerland
Posted Oct 6, 2008, 09:00 am CST
By Martha Neil
Taking another step towards its previously announced plan for a bigger global footprint, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal has opened a new office in Switzerland.
To do so, Sonnenschein has acquired a Zurich boutique run by partners Heinz Bloch and Robert Schlup that is known for its hotel-related practice, the firm reports in a press release. The new Sonnenschein office will be housed in the former offices of the boutique, Bloch & Partner.
It is the 700-attorney Chicago-based firm's second international office; it already has an office in Brussels, Belgium, as well as a dozen others in the United States, in addition to Chicago.
"The opportunity to attract such talented lawyers as Heinz and Robert to the firm made opening a Zurich office an easy decision for us," says Sonnenschein's chairman, Elliott Portnoy, in the release. "Given Zurich's prominent position in the financial services industry, our vision is to grow the office beyond our hotel expertise and to add practices that would provide strategic benefits to the firm in this market."