We serve our clients with a wide range of individually designed Legal Services and Solutions:
Corporate Law
- Founding, capital adjustment, revision of articles of incorporation, personnel changes etc.
- Corporate transformation, restructuring
- Succession planning / company succession / M&A
- Strategic and tactical consulting in the case of disputes among shareholders
- Company liquidation
Corporate Services
- Company Administration
- Dispatchment support
- Representation vis-a-vis labor inspectorates
- Joint committees (JCs)
- Tripartite committees (TPC)
- Cantonal labor inspection offices
- Defense against sanctions
- Representation vis-a-vis labor inspectorates
- Handling of primary contractor liability (in cases of subcontractor wage-dumping, etc.)
- Fiscal representation
Consulting for Managing Directors
- Hiring / personnel decisions / personnel administration
- Collaboration / opposing party checks
- Cross-border problems
- Risk management / crisis management
- Financial leadership
- Personnel / customer solicitation
- R&D / production / product liability
- Distribution rights
- Communications (advertising law / media law)
- Financial reporting and tax consulting services
- Reporting to supervisory bodies
Consulting for Board of Directors
- Advising of Board of Directors
- Strategic consulting / business plan: creation and updates
- Risk management
- Financial cockpit
- Exit strategies
- Executive body liability, responsibility
Advising of Auditors
- Assumption of assignments in special situations
- Value disputes
- Insolvency notifications
- All types of assignment cancellations
- Governing bodies’ liability / Directors’ and officers’ liability
Location Consulting
- Etablishing foreign companies and entrepreneurs in Switzerland
- Strategic and structural consulting / site selection
- “Swissness” consulting
- Dispatchment / Payroll-Services
- Business Center
Creditor Consulting
- Debt collection
- Mortgage consulting to foreign and Swiss banks
- Attachment
- Requests for moratorium on debt enforcement in case of refractory debtors
- Forensic-Services / Fraud Protection / Asset Tracing
Debtor Advice
- Bank consultation coaching
- Assistance in the case of intent to defer payment
- Corporate restructuring, business revitalization
- Rescue company
- Requests for composition moratorium on debt enforcment
Corporate Real Estate
- Corporate Real Estate Management (CREM)
- Property investment advice, hotel real estate
- Property development, real estate project management
- Property due diligence, property appraisal, construction checks
- Imposed management for non-performing real estate portfolios
Building owner consultations / property fiduciary services
- Property owner strategy
- Study commissioning / architecture competitions
- Construction organization / assignment strategies
- Statements of contruction costs in case of construction insolvency and construction liquidation
- Support in the case of contractor insolvency
External Legal Services
- Legal advice just in time
- Compliance-Services
- Outsourced contract management
- Assistance for companies in the case of activities requiring permits
- Support for contacts with regulatory authorities (Finma, self-regulation organizations)
Labor law
- “Hotline” for questions regarding labor law
- Operations and personnel regulations / employer duty of care
- Employment contracts + compensation systems / non-competition clauses
- Dismissals without notice / garden leave / letters of reference
- Advising and represantation in labor disputes
E-Commerce
- Business-model follow-up consulting / rights of use and licences
- Online-Shops / Editing of general terms and conditions for online offerings
- Risk management consulting
- Country risks
- Currency risks
- Right of recission / consumer protection
- Service disruptions
Contract-Services
- Contract review
- Review of general terms and conditions
- Review of employment contracts
- Review of purchase agreements
- Review of rental agreements
- Contract management
- Contract administration
Conflict Resolution / Consulting for proceedings
- Avoidance of litigation / conflict resolution outside of court (ADR) / mediation
- Assertion of claims
- Preparation for proceedings / lawsuit-related decision-making /strategy and tactics for complaints
- Organisaziton of financing for proceedings
- Defense against claims
Taxation
Our services are designed mainly for the following:
- Groups of companies
- Public companies
- Small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs)
- One-person firms
- Professionals
Professions
- Medical doctors
- Architects, engineers, planners
- Automotive industry
- Banks, financial services industry
- Construction
- Energy, chemicals
- Trade
- Hotels, tourism
- Real estate
- IT, internet
- Media, advertising agencies
- Commodity trading
- Telecommunications
- Transport, logistics
- Insurance companies, pension funds