Legal services and solutions for private individuals

We help private individuals with:

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

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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