Switzerland

Firm overview

Tax Partner AG is focused on Swiss and international tax law and is recognised as a leading tax boutique. With currently 12 partners and counsels and a total of approximately 45 tax experts, consisting of attorneys, legal experts and economists, the firm advises multinational and national corporate clients as well as individuals.

Tax Partner AG develops creative and well devised solutions in all areas of tax law and offers the full range of tax advice. The concentration of technical expertise and industry sector knowledge allows the development of tailor-made tax solutions for the clients. Tax Partner thereby offers a unique in-depth service quality to their clients. This focus has led to a continuous and increasing success of the firm.

Clients appreciate the efficient and customer-oriented set-up of the firm. The Partners are actively involved in day to day advice to the clients and have an important direct performance on the mandates.

Since its inception in 1997, Tax Partner’s strategy is to exclusively offer specialized tax advice to its clients. Over the past years Tax Partner AG has consequently developed important contacts to service providers engaged in the fields accompanying tax advice.

Tax Partner AG is independent and collaborates with various leading tax law firms globally. In 2005 the firm was a co-founder of Taxand – the world's largest independent organisation of highly qualified tax experts. Taxand currently has more than 2,500 tax advisors and around 550 tax partners from independent member firms in around 50 countries. Tax Partner is the Swiss Taxand member firm.

Firm overview

Led by Reto Gerber, the Deloitte Switzerland Tax & Legal practice currently numbers approximately 340+ professionals and has won the "Swiss Tax Firm of the Year award" from ITR for the eighth year in a row.

Deloitte Switzerland’s comprehensive range of services of Tax services — including Business Tax, International Tax, Mergers & Acquisitions Tax, Transfer Pricing, Indirect Tax, Tax Management Consulting, Global Employer Services, Private Client Services, Financial Services Tax Advisory — resulted in significant project wins across all industries. 

Our integrated approach combines insight and innovation from multiple disciplines with business and industry knowledge to help clients to excel.

Deloitte Switzerland’s strong collaboration with its Tax, Consulting, Audit, Risk Advisory and Financial Advisory service lines enables it to offer an integrated, innovative and holistic approach, providing highest quality, some of the best solutions possible and added value to its clients.

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Wenger Vieli has an established tax department advising private individuals, national and multinational companies on various tax, legal, compliance and advisory work. The team specialises in complex cross-border transactions for start-up, large companies and private equity firms, and HNW individuals including integrated succession planning apart from all other fields of taxation. The firm has three dedicated tax partners leading the team. Bruno Bächli is the assigned head of department.

Recent activity includes buy-side and sell-side advisory on numerous private equity, venture capital and M&A transactions, various projects relating to all aspects of the taxation of cryptocurrencies including NFTs as well as succession planning for different entrepreneurs.

Counsel Noëmi Kunz-Schenk joined in January 2021 from Burckhardt AG specialising on financial services and international corporate tax, Senior Associate Jonas Bühlmann arrived from KPMG in June 2021 specialising in M&A, Counsel Clara Bodemann arrived from Loyens Loeff in January 2022 leading the indirect tax practice, and Senior Associate Joel Doswald joined from pwc in June 2022 specialising in private clients.

Firm overview

MME is an innovative and fast-growing Swiss firm that offers integrated professional advisory and litigation services in all fields of legal, tax and compliance. MME supports and represents both companies and individuals in business and economic-related private matters.

A significant number of MME’s partners are – nationally and internationally – recognized as leading experts in their areas of practice and provide – together with their teams – made-to-measure advice and practical, cost-effective, and down-to-earth solutions improving their clients’ businesses or resolving their private economic challenges.

Firm overview

Ludwig + Partner Ltd. was established by four Partners in 2011 who worked together in the tax team of a major Swiss law firm in Basel for many years. 

The team consists of 13 professionals and six assistants. Nine of the professionals are admitted attorneys at law and five thereof Swiss Certified Tax Experts. The firm's competence in the fields of law and tax is strengthened by a Civil Law Notary, administrative tax advisers and a chartered accountant. The partners and the better part of the professionals have worked together for many years, The firm is built on continuity. Using long-term relationships, the team members obtain experience from which their clients can profit daily; because good solutions are simple and pragmatic. To be able to find them is the teams' daily challenge.

All of the firm's tax experts daily advise clients in various areas of tax law and have their individual focus and specialisations. Likewise they are further involved in the field of commercial law. This duality enables the clients to profit from the interdisciplinary knowledge and comprehensive optic which defines the firms' advice. Ludwig + Partner Ltd. offers comprehensive advice in the fields of tax and corporate and commercial law, on a high level, at fair local conditions.

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).