Switzerland

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

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.

Firm overview

Firm overview

Firm overview

Tax Partner AG is focused on Swiss and international tax law and is recognised as an important independent tax boutique. With currently 14 partners and counsels and approximately 40 professionals in total the firm advises multi-national and national corporate clients as well as individuals.

Tax Partner develops creative, well devised and if necessary unconventional solutions in all areas of tax law (corporate taxation, taxation of individuals, social security, tax compliance and proceedings, customs and VAT, transfer pricing, etc.). The concentration of technical expertise and industry sector knowledge allows the development of tailor-made tax solutions for the clients.

Since its inception in 1997, Tax Partner's strategy is to exclusively offer specialized tax advice to its clients. Tax Partner offers the full range of tax advice, from tax compliance to structuring of transactions, partner lead, offering a unique in-depth service quality to its clients. 

Clients appreciate the firm’s efficient and customer-oriented set-up. The partners and counsels of Tax Partner are actively involved in day-to-day advice to their clients and have an important direct performance on the mandates.

In the course of further expansion of its international relationships Tax Partner co-founded Taxand in 2005. Taxand is the world's largest independent tax organisation delivering high quality integrated tax advice worldwide. Taxand presently has over 2,500 tax advisors and 550 tax partners from independent member firms in 50 countries. Tax Partner is the Swiss Taxand member firm.

Firm overview

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.