Switzerland

Firm overview

Wenger Plattner has been advising and representing clients in all aspects of business law for over 40 years, and has offices in Basel, Zurich and Bern.

The lawyers identify practical, workable solutions and help clients implement these to achieve the best possible commercial outcomes. Wenger Plattner has a team of experts, many of whom are involved in decision-making as members of public authorities and other bodies, giving them an in-depth understanding of client needs.

As a fully integrated partnership, the firm places a strong emphasis on teamwork and co-operation. Wenger Plattner’s clients have access to dedicated, highly experienced specialists who offer top-level advice to help them meet their specific objectives efficiently and effectively.

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

Loyens & Loeff is an internationally based independent full-service law & tax firm having a 100-year track record of international (corporate) tax advisory services with top (international) tax specialists and corporate lawyers, regulatory lawyers and civil-law notaries.

Our tax experts have extensive experience in international taxation in a broad sense, which is more extensive than just the taxation in our four home markets (including EU and OECD tax rules). We translate the developments into our impact on clients' business and are focused on identifying tailor-made solutions. Our international relations with other acknowledged, independent tax advice and law firms provide for fast and efficient access to high-quality tax or legal advice in countries where we have no office.

In addition to the TP advisory practice on transfer pricing policies of internationally operating clients, the TP team provides integrated solutions on all relevant transfer pricing issues. Their major services include advice on strategy, audits, dispute resolution, documentation and financial transactions.

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.