Legal services and solutions for private individuals

Personal Matters / Status

• Name changes
• Swiss Citizenship / naturalization
• Immigration
• Temporary residency
• Emigration

Employment / Profession

• Labor law
  • Employment contracts
  • Bonus law / compensation systems
  • Employment permits / residency permits
  • Termination / dismissal / non-competition clauses
  • Labor disputes / representation in employer bankruptcy proceedings
• Spousal employment
• Erhebung oder Abwehr von Verantwortlichkeitsklagen
• Freelancer advising / advising for post-retirement work

Corporate / Entrepreneurial Advising

• Crisis consulting in unusual incidents and daily business
• Divorce in the case of entrepreneurs / corporate succession
• Disputes with fellow shareholders / voting out of board members
• Company crises / preventive counseling
• Representation in corporate bankruptcy proceedings / defense with regard to directors’ and officers’ liability and liability due to old age and survivors’ insurance (AHV)

Domicile

• Evaluation of domicile / tax-related domicile/li>
• Special domiciles / consulting
• Persons in residence during the work week and domicile-related proceedings / double-taxation
• Second domicile
• Implications for cross-border commuters
• Representation of Swiss citizens abroad

Residence

• Rents / rental agreements / rent adjustments
• Acquisition of residential real estate
  • Single-family homes / two-family homes
  • Condominium ownership (Stockwerkeigentum, StWE)
• Real estate taxation

Concubinage / Blended Families

• Consulting on cost-bearing and cost-contribution
• Domestic partnership agreements
• Retirement planning
• Wealth succession

Marriage

• Marriage support within international context
• Matrimonial property rights / marriage contract
  • Inventar über eingebrachtes Gut
  • Change in porperty regime / division of marital property
  • Most favorable treamtment of surviving spouse
• Legal separation / divorce / joint parental custody / alimony

Registered Partnerships

• Registration of partnerships
• Consulting on cost-bearing and cost-contributions
• Retirement planning
• Wealth succession

Family

• Child law / education
• Family foundations
• Protection of adults
• Support of family members

Assets

• Investment consulting / investor protection
• Retrocessions
• Direct + indirect real estate investments / acquisitions + sales consulting
• Art law
• Defense against compulsory enforcements (debt enforcement, realization of pledged property, foreclosure, bankruptcy)

Retirement Provisions

• Consulting on retirement provisions
  • Old age and survivors’ insurance (1st pillar) / supplementary payments / consulting with regards to conflicts
  • Employment-related pension provisions (2nd pillar) / favorable treatment / assertion of claims
  • Individual pension provisions (pillar 3a + 3b) / favorable treatment / assertion of claims
• Powers of attorney and execution for retirement provisions

Social Commitment

• Gifts / conditional gifts / donations / advance inheritance
• Consulting in regard to donations
• Foundations
  • Foundation formation
  • Foundation management
• Trusts

Inheritance Law

• Estate planning (wealth succession)
  • Wills / inheritance agreements / inheritance renuncaiation
    • Entrepreneurs’s wills
    • Preferential treatment of spouses / preferential treatment of domestic partners
    • Real estate succession
    • Artists’ estates
    • Disabled persons’ will
• Securing or disclaiming of an inheritance sequence
  • Probate proceedings / certificates of inheritance
  • Arrangement of inventories for verification purposes / public inventories
• Administration of estates
  • Division of estate (when initiated by one heir or all heirs)
  • Mandates for executors of a will / support for layexecutors of a will
• Action under law of succession
  • Action for recovery of an inheritance
  • Actions claiming lack of validity
  • Actions in abatement
  • Actions for hotchpot
  • Actions for partition

Old Age

• Patient decrees
• Advance care directive
• Protection of adults
• Supplementary benefits
• Obligation to support family members

Contracts

• Contract review
  • Review of employment contracts / review of job references
  • Review of purchase agreements
  • Review of rental agreements
  • Review of wills
  • Contract review
• Contract administration

Taxation / Custom duties

• Taxation of private parties and selfemployed individuals
• Inheritance and gift taxation
• Taxation with regard to property taxes
• Withholding taxes
• Flat-rate taxation

We aid private clients in all of life’s situations:

• employees, expatriates, personal abroad
• freelancers
• investors
• individuals of independent means
• advice for private individuals
• professional investors
• top executives, management
• entrepreneurs