Zug is an affluent, picturesque town in the south of Switzerland. A steep number of its 31,000 residents are foreign; it has four international schools to cater for the children of wealthy ex-pats. With its low tax rate, the municipality of Zug is attractive for shelf companies, finance houses and charities. The Thomson Reuters Corporation has 62 people on the ground in Zug, most of whom are tasked with managing intellectual property assets on behalf of the Canadian media conglomerate and offering content and technology products to other global Thomson Reuters outposts. Each year, the team in Zug manage billions…

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