Switzerland

Firm overview

burckhardt advises entities and their owners in domestic and international tax questions and restructurings and renders estate tax planning services.

A substantial part of our activity we spend with the long-term tax planning in the field of corporate tax as well as succession and estate planning of individuals. We draw tax efficient reorganization plans and coordinate in international situations with our colleagues abroad. We render advice in domestic and international situations to groups of companies and their subsidiaries, to family owned businesses and their owners, to real estate transactions as well as in tax dispute situations. Long-term tax planning, restructuring and conversions, purchase and sale of entities, joint ventures and review of alternatives in corporate financing are our core competences. We assist in choosing the legal entity form and in designing your business structure, in transferring shares or in splitting off parts of enterprises. To safeguard family wealth succession and estate planning is of utmost importance for us.

Firm overview

Schellenberg Wittmer is a leading full-service Swiss business law firm with more than 150 lawyers in Zurich, Geneva, and Singapore. We provide comprehensive legal services worldwide to domestic and international companies and entrepreneurs. Our Singapore office provides a gateway to the Asian market, for both inbound and outbound investments.

The firm's Taxation Group is renowned for their expertise in tax and economic matters. Most team members are Certified Tax Experts and cover the full range of advisory and contentious tax-related issues. We have extensive experience with both cantonal and federal authorities and regularly obtain advance clearances and rulings for corporations, individuals, governments and NGOs. We are experts in double taxation and mutual assistance agreements, real estate transactions, trusts, NGOs, VAT, real estate and enforcement procedures. Our team works closely with the Private Wealth Group advising and representing individuals, families and closely-held family businesses, banks, family offices and trust companies in estate and inheritance planning, and in disputes, including litigation and arbitration.

Firm overview

Firm overview

We accompany entrepreneurs and companies in all tax matters in the national and international environment. We already have the civil law implementation in mind during the planning phase.

As certified tax experts, we are practitioners with a quality certificate. A special guarantee for quality in tax consulting is experience. We have a great deal of that.

We advise clients on a variety of business law issues at all levels (planning and implementation). Since we are lawyers and tax experts, we have both legal and fiscal aspects in mind. We are used to thinking not only as lawyers, but also as entrepreneurs.

We advise clients in all aspects of private and public binding law, from planning through project development, construction, acquisition, financing and operation, to the sale of real estate.

Our clients have an experienced notary for comprehensive services. As a result of the approval in the cantons of Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft, we can handle all land register transactions in these cantons.

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Wenger Vieli advises companies and individual clients on matters of domestic and international law and taxation. Our wealth of experience and expertise in all areas of commercial law allow us to deliver precisely what our clients need.

We are a member of Meritas, one of the largest international associations of independent law firms, and collaborate with WTS Global.

Although our offices in Zurich and Zug are deeply rooted in the heart of Europe, we operate internationally. Whether we are working with companies or individual clients in Switzerland or overseas, our team always speaks the right language.

Firm overview

ADB Altorfer Duss & Beilstein is one of the leading tax law firms in Switzerland. Founded in 1954, we offer national and international clients comprehensive consultancy focusing on Swiss and international tax law.

From high net worth individuals to institutional investors. From the SME to the listed company. From incorporation through to succession planning. From the concept through to implementation and its reproduction in tax returns and tax assessments. We provide personal and individually tailored advice in relation to all aspects of life and business decisions with tax implications.

Our services are based on decades of professional experience and are characterised by recognised specialist expertise. With our avocational engagements as lecturers, specialist authors and judges we each provide our own additional contribution to the development of tax law.

Our strength lies in the interdisciplinary approach to tax law in our team of lawyers and economists. Our experienced team of tax experts carefully attends to your interests in all tax matters.

• Tax structuring (domestic and cross-border)
• Mergers and acquisitions/tax due diligence
• Group financing and capital markets
• Collective investment schemes
• VAT advice and compliance, incl. customs
• Transfer Pricing
• Tax effective supply chain management
• Individual tax/global mobility
• Succession planning
• Tax litigation and penal tax law
• Tax compliance
• Social security (domestic and cross-border)
• Corporate, commercial and contract law

We serve Swiss and foreign clients related to Swiss and international tax and social security questions. In addition, we provide services in selected areas of Swiss business law (corporation law, commercial law, labor law, immigration law, inheritance law).