Switzerland

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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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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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ADB Altorfer Duss & Beilstein is one of the leading tax law firms in Switzerland existing now for 60 years.

We advise our clients, which originate from various sectors such as chemicals, charities, commercial & professional services, construction & materials, consumer product manufacturing, financial services, food & drink producers, industrial engineering, insurance, mining & metals, private clients/individuals, reals estate, retail, software & computer services, sports, technology, hardware & electronics, telecommunications and utilities.

We have a strong focus on banks, asset managers and family offices as well as in the tax support of law firms, accounting and fiduciary firms.

We provide personal and individually tailored advice in relation to all aspects of life with tax implications and all business decisions: 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.

• 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).

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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 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.

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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.