>Well, I don't really think that they will say NO to all, but I would expect a couple of changes that's for sure.

I think it's safe to say that Stadelhofer will be staying.

Viktor Vekselberg's main man

(Translated from German by Google)

Carl Stadelhofer is the main trust of the Russian major investors Viktor Vekselberg. The lawyer is a go-getter with a flair for self-expression.

Business lawyer Carl Stadelhofer (ask 54) can be written. The advisor of the known Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg with high levels of OC Oerlikon, Sulzer and the construction company Zublin does not want to expose in conversation. He was "part of a small team that performs and evaluates investments," he describes his role. As legal advisor, he does not belong into the media spotlight.

In the Business Stadelhofer, replacing the the German "Karl" many years ago by the Anglo-Saxon "Carl" is to be no other light under a bushel. On his visit to the home page jumps to the top cadres of the world, the Harvard Law School, in the eye. Small blemish: a degree, he has not done there. Why is the native of Schaffhausen Harvard still leads in its curriculum? "As part of a training program, my former employer where he had attended courses.

Employee of Viktor Vekselberg Renova Group, in which bundles of 15 billion francs heavy Russian oligarch its global holdings, characterized by Stadelhofer the image of a power-conscious and self-adviser. He building of Renova Holding Vekselberg was central, while was a communications consultant Thomas Borer one Helvetic Randfigur, let Carl Stadelhofer feel some. Unlike Vekselberg's henchmen, herumwieselten the submissive, giving themselves Stadelhofer orders.

The oligarch and his lawyer got to know 15 years ago. Carl Stadelhofer and Viktor Vekselberg had developed a "friendly, close and trusting relationship," Vekselberg said spokesman Markus Blume. Stadelhofer was the one who sought for his Russian clients an apartment at Zürichberg. And he found office space for the Renova Group in the financial center of Zurich, 300 meters from Stadel Hofer's own law firm. The two times already to go skiing together.

Among lawyers who specialize in Russia, is Carl Stadelhofer a blank page. Attorney Charles Eckstein, many years working in Moscow and Russia's honorary consul in Switzerland, has certainly never heard of him. According to the cornerstone of Russian businessmen and Swiss commercial lawyers would come together by chance. "The Russians always been wary of official channels," the Russia-based experts. They prefer to rely on his instinct, when we meet at any beach on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus have many relations to their origin. An agreement freed Russian and Cypriot companies from mutual taxation of dividends.

In addition to his mandate Vekselberg Carl Stadelhofer chairman of the board of the Neue Zürcher Bank (NCB). The financial company, founded by former Julius Baer dealers, has changed the premier location for corporate deals. In the winding option attacks on traditional Swiss company, the NCB should have mitgemischt at the forefront.

The possible conflict of interest as a representative of clients, Viktor Vekselberg and simultaneously the highest representative of the bank seems to Carl Stadelhofer not disturb. Prestigious law firms avoid such governance Twine.

Until recently, Stadelhofer member of the Board of Finter Bank Zurich, where he met with Max Amstutz. "Stadelhofer is a daring lawyer willing to take big risks, judges of the industrialists. "A dashing guy with strong opinions, ambitious and competent." Ulrich Grete, Chairman of the Board met briefly with Finter, Stadelhofer there too familiar. Jointly responsible for the Bahamas as an arm of the business lawyer Finter have demonstrated some common sense, says Grete, president of the OASI fund. "We risked reputational harm, because we offered services without sufficient expertise and resources." Stadelhofer defends himself: "I was the one who pointed out early on to the intolerable conditions.» 2005 left Stadelhofer the VR, as new people at the helm Finter Bank in the hands increased.