Switzerland

Firm overview

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 as well as to real estate transactions. 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

Founded in 1954, ADB Altorfer Duss & Beilstein AG is one of the leading independent tax law firms in Switzerland offering expert advice in all areas of domestic and international tax law.

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.

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Loyens & Loeff is an internationally based independent full-service law 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). They translate the developments into their 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.

Firm overview