Switzerland

Firm overview

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.

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Lenz & Staehelin is one of the largest law firm in Switzerland with over 200 lawyers forming its legal staff. Internationally oriented, the firm offers a comprehensive range of services and handles all aspects of international and Swiss law. Languages spoken include English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish. Lenz & Staehelin’s tax team is one of the largest among Swiss law firms with more than 25 tax attorneys offering a full range of tax advice in its three offices in Geneva, Zurich and Lausanne. Practice areas include M&A, restructurings and buyouts, financing, financial products and derivatives, estate and tax planning for executives including employee share and stock option plans, investment funds, private equity funds, property (acquisition and development), value added tax, internal investigations and tax litigation.

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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).

Firm overview

Firm overview

TAX EXPERT International AG is an unique and highly recognized practice. Our Certified Tax Experts focus on national and international taxation affecting both business entities and individuals.

We offer a comprehensive range of tax planning services that encompass tax-free mergers, spin-offs, restructuring, reorganizations, acquisitions, business formations, liquidations and - more importantly - Independent tax reviews or opinions.

In addition, to full-range corporate tax counseling, TAX EXPERT International AG has extensive experience that covers the full spectrum from all aspects of individual taxation including executive incentive compensation and employee stock ownership arrangements to inheritance, gifts, estates and real estate.

Whether it is advice on the implementation of complex national or transnational tax minimization strategies, or support in compliance matters, we help MNEs, stock-quoted companies, corporations, joint ventures, entrepreneurs, partnerships, high-net-worth individuals, expatriates and inpatriates to respond effectively, managing their exposure to tax liability and complying with regulations.

With us you have chosen "A Partnership for Success"

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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.