Our services

We specialise in providing tax and legal advice to companies and entrepreneurs. By concentrating on these key issues, we are able to propose solutions that are tailor-made to your needs.

• Tax planning connected with the setting up or restructuring of a company (transformations, mergers, spin-offs, joint ventures)
• Setting up holding structures
• Tax planning for annual financial statements and the distribution of profits
• Tax structuring of the purchase and sale of companies
• Optimising recapitalisation
• Assisting with the liquidation of companies
• Analysis of tax risks (tax review of all taxes)
• Filling out tax returns, including inter-cantonal and international tax allocations
• Setting up and reviewing employee share and options plans
• Advising companies sending employees to Switzerland as expatriates
• Representation in tax procedures (e.g. complaints and appeals)

Reviewing the VAT implications of possible transactions in a business.

• Reviewing the VAT implications of possible transactions in a business
• Reviewing a company's VAT exposure
• Planning and optimising structures and business procedures
• Ongoing advice on issues as they arise
• Attendance and support during audits by the Swiss Federal Tax Authorities (FTA)
• Negotiations with the authorities and representation in proceedings (e.g. objections and appeals)
• Support with quarterly VAT returns

Reviewing and optimising personal taxes and pension plan situations.

• Reviewing and optimising personal taxes and pension plan situations
• Advising on partnerships
• Optimising tax successions
• Optimising changes of domicile
• Lump-sum taxation of individuals coming from abroad
• Filling out complex tax returns, incl. inter-cantonal and international tax allocations
• Representation in tax procedures (e.g. complaints and appeals)

Company law, especially joint-stock companies and limited liability companies.

• Company law, especially joint-stock companies and limited liability companies
• Business law
• Agreements regarding restructuring (e.g. transformations, mergers, spin-offs) and tax successions (e.g. holding structure, sale of the enterprise)
• Providing advice and legal opinions
• Administration of companies

• Company valuations in the event of restructuring
• Further services in the field of intellectual property (IP, intangible property rights, in connection with an external firm of patent and trademark attorneys):
  • Searches (does a corresponding right already exist?)
  • Obtaining protective rights (filing of applications, representation vis-à-vis authorities, counselling and accompaniment in proceedings)
  • Conflict management (enforcing rights, protection against infringement)
  • IP portfolio management (administration of IP rights, renewals)
  • Monitoring (of rights and activities of competitors)