Pratice Areas
Employment, Executive Compensation and Benefits
Employment, Executive Compensation and Benefits
- Employment agreements
- Employment regulations
- Employee participation programs
- Non-compete covenants
- Termination of employment agreements
- Termination agreements
- Mass dismissals, social compensation plans
- Employment issues of restructurings and reorganisations
- Temporary staffing
- Data protection
- Work conditions
- Conflicts at work
- Employment disputes, representation of employers and employees in court
Banking and Finance
Banking and Finance
- Banking and finance disputes
- Regulatory matters
- Representation in dealings with Swiss regulatory bodies and self-regulatory organisations (FINMA, SIX Swiss Exchange etc.)
- Contracts, terms and conditions, permits
- Compliance, anti-moneylaundering
- FATCA compliance
- Dealings with US authorities
- Investment funds, fund regulations, issue prospectuses
- Collective investment schemes, hedge funds, special purpose vehicles (SPVs), structured products and other derivatives
Real Estate and Construction
Real Estate and Construction
- Construction design agreements, independent contractor contracts, general contracting agreements, design and construct agreements, consortium agreements and joint venture agreements
- Dispute resolution and contentious construction disputes (before state courts as well as national and international arbitral tribunals)
- Due diligence in real estate transactions
- Acquisition and transaction negotiations
- Sales contracts and other aquisition agreements, legal structuring of complex transactions
- Permits for property acquisitions of foreigners (Lex Koller)
- Condominium ownership agreements, condominium association regulations
- Portfolio management, facility management, property management
- Owner's liability insurance, all risk construcion insurance, professional liability insurance
Capital Markets and Securities
Capital Markets and Securities
- Capital market transactions
- Representation of issuers in connection with public offerings for shares, debt obligations and derivatives
- Drafting prospectuses
- Regulatory issues such as insider trading, disclosure obligations and ad hoc publicity
- Club deals and private placements
- Corporate governance
- PIPE (private investment in public equity)
- Public takeover bids and defense strategies
Succession and Estate Planning, Transfer of Wealth and Inheritance Law
Succession and Estate Planning, Transfer of Wealth and Inheritance Law
- Estate planning
- Business succession
- Asset protection
- Structuring through companies, foundations and trust
- Foundations and other charitable organizations
- Real Estate
- Last wills and inheritance contracts
- Prenuptial agreements
- Gifts
- Executor services
- Inheritance law disuptes
- Advice and representation on dealings with supervisory authorities
Corporate and M&A
Corporate and M&A
- Incorporation of companies
- Branch establishment
- Corporate structuring, financing and refinancing of companies
- Restructuring, national and cross border (mergers, demergers, asset transfers)
- Legal due diligence
- Transfer of domicile, national and cross border
- Liquidations
- Shareholders' agreements
- Asset transfer agreements
- Organsations structures, corporate governance
- Corporate housekeeping
- Advice to directors
- D&O liability
- Shareholders' rights
- Employment agreement with executives, employee incentive plans
- Succession planning
- Corporate law and M&A disputes
International Judicial Assistance in Civil, Criminal and Administrative Proceedings
International Judicial Assistance in Civil, Criminal and Administrative Proceedings
- Advice and representation in proceedings regarding the transmission of data abroad
- Representation in international mutual administrative and judicial assistance proceedings in criminal and tax matter
- International requests for the taking of evidence such as document production and witness examination by judicial assistance
- Acting as commissioner pursuant to the Hague Convention on the Taking of Evidence
- Asset tracing and securing of assets
- Release of confiscated assets
Intellectual Property and Competition
Intellectual Property and Competition
- Trademark
- Design
- Copyright
- License agreements
- Competition issues of distribution agreements and systems, franchising agreements, general terms and conditions
- Competition issues with regard to planned mergers (merger control)
- Representation before courts and the authorities, such as the Competition Commission
Litigation and Arbitration
Litigation and Arbitration
- Pre-trial advice in disputes
- Securing evidence
- Settlement negotiations, mediation
- Representation before cantonal courts and the Swiss Federal Tribunal
- Party representation in domestic and international arbitrations (ICC, Swiss Rules, Zurich Chamber of Commerce, LCIA, CAS, ad hoc)
- Acting as arbitrator
- Providing expert opinions
- Attachment of assets
- Enforcement of claims
Bankruptcy, Insolvency and Reorganisations
Bankruptcy, Insolvency and Reorganisations
- Debt enforcement proceedings
- Attachment of assets
- Liability and legal responsibility claims
- Criminal law aspects
- Avoidance actions (Paulian actions)
- Schedule-of-claims, handover and opposition proceedings
- Representation in composition and other insolvency proceedings
- Assistance of foreign receivers and trustees in bankruptcy in expanding insolvency proceedings into Switzerland with respect to assets located in Switzerland
- Legal framework for restructurings ans reorganisations
- Setting up of rescue companies
- Standstill agreements and out-of-court composition agreements
- Acting as administrators, liquidators, trustees in bankruptcy, or members of creditor committees
Commercial Contracts
Commercial Contracts
- Purchase agreements
- Work and labour agreements
- Supply agreements
- Service agreements
- Transport
- Lease agreements
- Credit, loan and security agreements
- Joint Ventures
- Franchising
- Distribution
- Event agreements
- Production and Coproduction agreements
- Engagement of artists
- Art trade and lending
White Collar Crime, Regulatory Investigations and Prosecutions
White Collar Crime, Regulatory Investigations and Prosecutions
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Representation and defense in general criminal and commercial criminal prosecution proceedings, in particular financial crimes, forgeries of documentation, fraud, banking and all white collar crimes, money laundering and corruption, company litigation proceedings, computer crimes, tax offences
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Representation in cases of prosecution proceedings, seizure of documents, confiscation of assets, freezing of bank accounts other subpoena