Legal services and solutions for business

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
  • 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
  • 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

  • Corporate taxes
  • Value Added Tax (VAT)
  • Withholding taxes
  • Property taxes

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