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The American Swiss Foundation is a private non-profit foreign policy organization headquartered in New York. It was founded in 1945 [ 1 ] "to preserve and strengthen the historic friendship between the United States and Switzerland ".
Baker McKenzie was the first major law firm to become a Swiss verein, in 2004. Since 2009, Swiss vereins have been used in several mergers of large multinational law firms, as they allow regional profit pools and their related tax, accounting and partner compensation systems to remain separate while allowing strategy, branding, information technology and other core functions to be shared ...
SBS Swiss Business School is a member of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International), [15] the Swiss Adult Education Association (SVEB), [16] the Swiss Federation of Private Schools (VSP), [17] and the Swiss Private School Register [18]
UBS's primary offices in the U.S., prior to its merger with SBC, were located at 299 Park Avenue in New York, which are used today as the New York headquarters of UBS Investment Bank. The bank also made two major acquisitions in 1986, first it purchased Phillips & Drew an established British brokerage and asset management firm, founded in 1895.
Swissnex in Boston, the network's first location, opened in 2000 to pioneer “science diplomacy" in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Situated strategically between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, Swissnex in Boston and New York works closely with higher education institutions in both Switzerland and the Greater Northeastern US.
The Swiss American Historical Society (SAHS) is a historical society founded in Chicago in 1927. According to the Society's website, it was established "to promote the study of the Swiss in America, of Swiss–American relations, of Swiss immigration to the United States, and of American interest in Swiss history and culture."
Swiss Heritage Village & Museum – begun in 1985, it is currently the largest outdoor museum in northern Indiana. It is located in Berne, Indiana. [19] Swiss Mennonite Cultural and Historical Association – consists of descendants of the Mennonites who immigrated to the U.S. from Ukraine in the 1870s. [20]
De Rham assumed responsibility for a district encompassing the New England states, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and the states north of the Ohio River. Cazenove managed the remainder of the United States. Their main charge was to protect the interests and property of Swiss immigrants and travelers, particularly merchants.