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Private Clients & Families

We advise private individuals and families, oftentimes over generations. This includes, inter alia, the following areas of expertise:

  • Succession planning (last wills, prenuptial and inher-itance agreements, execution of wills, estate distribution and inheritance proceedings)
  • Inventories and estate admin-istration
  • Succession planning for entre-preneurs and companies
  • Cross-border wealth structuring
  • National and international tax planning
  • Foundations and trusts
  • Real estate transactions
  • Donations / gifts
  • Residence and settlement
  • Philanthropy
  • Art and sports law
  • The protection of adults and children

    As notaries, we establish and certify all necessary contractual agreements and deeds. Therefore, we can provide you comprehensive advice from con-sultation to execution, including the exchanges with authorities and en-tries in registries (commercial register; land register).
Corporate and Commercial Law

We advise national and international companies, entrepreneurs, and investors on all matters of their business operations. This includes, inter alia, the following areas of expertise:

  • Incorporation and restructuring (mergers, spin-off, divesture, etc.)
  • Company acquisitions and sales
  • Changes in capital stock (particularly capital increases and reductions)
  • Financings
  • Shareholders‘ and partnership agreements
  • Regulations and operation manuals
  • Legal due diligence, contractual documentation, and negotiation
  • Legal questions relating to the daily business activities (contractual, labour, rental, real estate, construction and insurance law, etc.)
  • Succession planning

As notaries, we establish and certify all necessary contractual agreements and deeds. Therefore, we can provide you comprehensive advice from con-sultation to execution, including the exchanges with authorities and en-tries in registries (commercial register; land register).

Construction and Real Estate Law

We advise and represent national and international clients in all matters of construction and real estate law, as well as in related fields of law. This includes, inter alia, the following areas of expertise:

  • Sale and purchase of immovable property, including industrial, commercial, and residential properties
  • Creating land parcels
  • Easement agreements (rights of ways, transmission rights, etc.)
  • Establishment of promissory notes
  • Legal due diligence, contractual documentation, and negotiation
  • Authorization procedures (construction permits, lex koller, etc.)
  • Condominium ownership
  • Contracts for works and services, general contractor and total contractor agreements
  • Building contractor's charge
  • Appeal and complaint proceedings
  • Real estate disputes

In the field of agricultural land law, we advise our clients relating to in-vestments, financing, operational handovers, etc. In addition to private individuals, we assist agricultural cooperatives, mountain communi-ties, etc.

As notaries, we establish and certify all necessary contractual agreements and deeds. Therefore, we can provide you comprehensive advice from con-sultation to execution, including the exchanges with authorities and en-tries in registries (commercial register; land register).

Family Law

We advise and represent our clients in all matters related to family law. This includes, inter alia, the following areas of expertise:

  • Prenuptial and inheritance agreements
  • Separation and divorce
  • Registered partnership
  • Concubinage
  • Marital property law
  • Protection of adults and chil-dren
  • Name rights
  • The advance care directive (living will)
  • Patient decree

As notaries, we establish and certify all necessary contractual agreements and deeds. Therefore, we can provide you comprehensive advice from con-sultation to execution, including the exchanges with authorities and en-tries in registries (commercial register; land register).

Litigation

We represent our clients before all Swiss courts and authorities in national proceedings..

In addition, we represent clients in proceedings before foreign courts and authorities, develop dispute resolution strategies, as well as techniques of alternative dispute resolution, and provide the necessary factual and risk assessments.

We are litigating, inter alia, in the following  areas of expertise:

  • Contractual law
  • Corporate and commercial law
  • Inheritance law
  • Family law
  • Real estate and construction law
  • Administrative law
  • Rental law
  • Labour law
  • Debt enforcement, attach-ment and bankruptcy law
  • Recognition and execution of foreign judgments
Administrative Law

We advise and represent private individuals and companies in administrative proceedings of all kinds before local, regional, cantonal, and national authorities.

Furthermore, we assist by providing legal research (e.g. expert opinions) and by litigating before any authorities (e.g. municipalities, cantonal offices, and national authorities).

Rental Law

We advise and represent our clients in all matters of rental law. This includes, inter alia, the following:

  • Commercial rental agree-ments (contractual design and negotiation)
  • Residential rental apartments (contractual design and ne-gotiation)
  • Consultancy related to rental policies (rental fee increases and decreases)
  • Challenging of terminations
  • Defect rights
  • Expulsion of tenants/lessees
Labour Law

We advise and represent private individuals and companies in all matters of labour law. This includes, inter alia, the following areas of expertise:

  • Employment contract
  • Regulations and operational manuals
  • Remuneration and bonus disputes
  • Employee participation pro-grams
  • Non-competition clauses
  • Privacy and protection of business secrets
  • Notice of termination
  • Restructuring
Insolvency Law

We advise and represent private indi-viduals and companies in debt en-forcement and bankruptcy proceed-ings as well as in financial restructur-ing efforts. This includes inter alia the following areas of expertise:

  • Debt enforcement proceed-ings
  • Attachment proceedings
  • Insolvency proceedings, in particular relating to colloca-tion, release, opposition and proceedings
  • Restructuring
Criminal Law

We advise and represent the interests of our clients before national and foreign supervisory and prosecution authorities, as well as in internal and public investigations.

In addition, we analyse potentially criminal actions and regulatory violations by executives and employees, and advise on measures to remedy the situation.