Commercial law and Private Clients
We offer national and international companies and private clients comprehensive advice and representation in all areas of commercial law. We work in a solution-oriented and interdisciplinary manner, alone or in a team, and place great emphasis on keeping our clients’ business objectives in focus at all times.
We have extensive experience and practical expertise in the field of corporate law. Our advisory services cover all stages of a company’s life cycle, from incorporation through mergers, demergers, conversions transfers of assets and spin-offs to restructuring and liquidation. We assist companies and their boards and management, as well as private equity and venture capital funds, with acquisitions and co-investments, the establishment of organisational structures (including articles of association) and corporate governance. At the shareholder level, we advise on the drafting of shareholders’ and partners’ agreements.
As part of our contract law practice, we advise our clients on the preparation, negotiation and implementation of a wide range of transactions and the drafting of related legal documentation (such as purchase, commercial, distribution, agency, factoring and service agreements).
regularly advise on national and international M&A transactions and provide fast and efficient support in a wide range of transaction types. We advise and assist private individuals, holding companies and private equity firms as buyers and sellers in share and asset deals, restructurings, mergers, co-operations and joint ventures. Our clients benefit from our integrated approach in all areas – from legal advice, tax structuring and support to valuation and auditing. We work closely with specialists in tax law, antitrust law, real estate law and business valuation. Through our network of leading law firms in all relevant jurisdictions, we have a global presence on all continents.
In an increasingly complex regulatory environment, we assist our clients in implementing regulatory requirements, particularly in the area of money laundering. As SRO-member, individual lawyers of our firm have their own practical experience as financial intermediaries, which flows into their advice to financial service providers in their dealings with clients, self-regulatory organisations and supervisory authorities.
As part of whistleblowing programmes, we are used by larger companies as an independent external reporting office.
As part of whistleblowing programmes, we are used by larger companies as an independent external reporting office.
We advise employers and employees on all aspects of employment law in a national and international context. Our core areas of expertise in employment law include standard and bespoke employment contracts, bonus, incentive and employee share ownership schemes, anti-discrimination, whistleblowing, maternity/paternity, redundancy, restructuring and insolvency.
For two decades, family businesses and high net worth individuals have placed their trust in us. We provide them with comprehensive support in day-to-day matters, advise them on important asset decisions, organise their succession planning and assist them with gifts and personal matters such as marriages. In the area of relocation, we advise foreign individuals and companies wishing to move to Switzerland on all aspects of immigration law in connection with obtaining work and residence permits, as well as structuring asset and wealth management, with a particular focus on international tax law.
Advice to private clients, families and family offices includes the structuring and management of internationally diversified assets, as well as succession, estate and asset planning in Switzerland and abroad for both private and business assets, and the administration of estates, wills and executorships in a national and international context.
We also represent clients in criminal tax proceedings and in the implementation of voluntary declarations of immunity from prosecution. Our tax practice has a particular focus on cross-border matters involving other jurisdictions such as Germany and Liechtenstein. We also assist founders and foundations in the establishment and ongoing legal and tax management of family and charitable foundations. In the area of international structures such as foundations, trusts, establishments or insurance companies, we represent governing bodies and beneficiaries in clarifying legally unclear asset allocations.
Advice to private clients, families and family offices includes the structuring and management of internationally diversified assets, as well as succession, estate and asset planning in Switzerland and abroad for both private and business assets, and the administration of estates, wills and executorships in a national and international context.
We also represent clients in criminal tax proceedings and in the implementation of voluntary declarations of immunity from prosecution. Our tax practice has a particular focus on cross-border matters involving other jurisdictions such as Germany and Liechtenstein. We also assist founders and foundations in the establishment and ongoing legal and tax management of family and charitable foundations. In the area of international structures such as foundations, trusts, establishments or insurance companies, we represent governing bodies and beneficiaries in clarifying legally unclear asset allocations.
