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known and established firms within their Address:
jurisdiction and provide a full service. Direct IAG Administration Office
partner contact is important and firms will 3a Westgate
be pleased to provide access for their clients Oakham, LE15 6BH, England
to their local business community. Globalaw U.K.
members have not just contributed legal
expertise but in many cases have also Contact: Christopher Whitamore
created or located successful business Email: admin@iagweb.com
opportunities for their clients. Telephone: +44 1572 724733
Fax: +44 1572 757797
Regular regional and annual meetings Website: www.iagweb.com
around the world ensure that Globalaw
lawyers understand what is expected of Number of Firms: 71
them, understand the network well, and Number of Lawyers 1,600
above all get to know each personally and Regions: Global
one another’s expertise well. There are
numerous sector initiatives where lawyers Description: Our deep personal knowledge
practicing in specialist areas get together in and trust of one another makes all the
person, by webinars and telephone difference. IAG is unique in the level of
conference calls to establish how better to well-justified confidence it builds and
service their clients globally. maintains between members.
Harmonie Group International offices don't mean distant
relationships. IAG members know one
Address: another. Each member firm is carefully
4248 Park Glen Rd. selected after an exhaustive interviewing
Minneapolis, MN 55416 process. We hold three meetings a year,
U.S. each in a different country. Over time this
discipline, plus the operational experience of
Contact: Timothy C. Violet, Executive working together, allows every member to
Director develop strong bonds of trust, and often
Email: tviolet@harmonie.org friendship, with every other member. This
Telephone: 612 875 7744 dynamic translates into seamless, hassle-free
Fax: service for members' clients around the
Website: world. When we pick up the phone to speak
to a member in another country on your
Number of Firms: 85 behalf, we're talking to someone we know
Number of Lawyers: 5,000 and in whom we have confidence. No red
Regions: Global tape. Quick answers to easy questions,
Description: The Harmonie Group was expedited strategy, and action on more
founded in 1993 at the Harmonie Club in complex challenges.
New York City, when several experienced
and well-respected members of the defense We work with large companies, medium-
bar met to discuss forming a national sized businesses, and individuals. Our
network of high-quality law firms that had members include lawyers, accountants, tax
the proven ability to serve the special needs advisers, and fiduciaries, some of whom
of the risk industry. The Group believed work in association with other specialists:
then, as it does now, that both clients and economists, real estate advisers, or financial
attorneys benefit from a better advisers. No matter what your challenge, no
understanding of the unique circumstances matter where it is, you won’t have to feel
and concerns facing each of them. The like you’re working in a country that’s
members at the initial meeting wanted to “foreign” to you ever again.
create an organization where quality
members would be encouraged to introduce IAPL
their quality clients to other members, to
promote an exchange of ideas between Address:
clients and lawyers, and to have frank Seepark/Gartenstrasse 4
discussions concerning the lawyer/client P.O. Box 4819
relationship. CH-6304 Zug
Switzerland
IAG International (Integrated Advisory Group
International) (Multidisciplinary)
123
known and established firms within their Address:
jurisdiction and provide a full service. Direct IAG Administration Office
partner contact is important and firms will 3a Westgate
be pleased to provide access for their clients Oakham, LE15 6BH, England
to their local business community. Globalaw U.K.
members have not just contributed legal
expertise but in many cases have also Contact: Christopher Whitamore
created or located successful business Email: admin@iagweb.com
opportunities for their clients. Telephone: +44 1572 724733
Fax: +44 1572 757797
Regular regional and annual meetings Website: www.iagweb.com
around the world ensure that Globalaw
lawyers understand what is expected of Number of Firms: 71
them, understand the network well, and Number of Lawyers 1,600
above all get to know each personally and Regions: Global
one another’s expertise well. There are
numerous sector initiatives where lawyers Description: Our deep personal knowledge
practicing in specialist areas get together in and trust of one another makes all the
person, by webinars and telephone difference. IAG is unique in the level of
conference calls to establish how better to well-justified confidence it builds and
service their clients globally. maintains between members.
Harmonie Group International offices don't mean distant
relationships. IAG members know one
Address: another. Each member firm is carefully
4248 Park Glen Rd. selected after an exhaustive interviewing
Minneapolis, MN 55416 process. We hold three meetings a year,
U.S. each in a different country. Over time this
discipline, plus the operational experience of
Contact: Timothy C. Violet, Executive working together, allows every member to
Director develop strong bonds of trust, and often
Email: tviolet@harmonie.org friendship, with every other member. This
Telephone: 612 875 7744 dynamic translates into seamless, hassle-free
Fax: service for members' clients around the
Website: world. When we pick up the phone to speak
to a member in another country on your
Number of Firms: 85 behalf, we're talking to someone we know
Number of Lawyers: 5,000 and in whom we have confidence. No red
Regions: Global tape. Quick answers to easy questions,
Description: The Harmonie Group was expedited strategy, and action on more
founded in 1993 at the Harmonie Club in complex challenges.
New York City, when several experienced
and well-respected members of the defense We work with large companies, medium-
bar met to discuss forming a national sized businesses, and individuals. Our
network of high-quality law firms that had members include lawyers, accountants, tax
the proven ability to serve the special needs advisers, and fiduciaries, some of whom
of the risk industry. The Group believed work in association with other specialists:
then, as it does now, that both clients and economists, real estate advisers, or financial
attorneys benefit from a better advisers. No matter what your challenge, no
understanding of the unique circumstances matter where it is, you won’t have to feel
and concerns facing each of them. The like you’re working in a country that’s
members at the initial meeting wanted to “foreign” to you ever again.
create an organization where quality
members would be encouraged to introduce IAPL
their quality clients to other members, to
promote an exchange of ideas between Address:
clients and lawyers, and to have frank Seepark/Gartenstrasse 4
discussions concerning the lawyer/client P.O. Box 4819
relationship. CH-6304 Zug
Switzerland
IAG International (Integrated Advisory Group
International) (Multidisciplinary)
123
