Legal services

We counsel and represent businesses and individuals in all aspects of administrative criminal law.

 

Keywords

  • Representation and defense of individuals and businesses in criminal proceedings
  • Assistance to aggrieved parties in protecting their interests in criminal proceedings
  • International mutual assistance in criminal matters

We represent and counsel you in the area of state law and administrative law. This expressly includes the representation of businesses and private individuals before cantonal and federal administrative authorities and administrative courts. Thus we assist you in particular with objections and complaints against decisions of all kinds, which are based on municipal, cantonal or federal law.

 

Keywords 

  • Public institutions 
  • Institutions under public law 
  • Organizational law 
  • Administrative investigations 
  • Personnel law
  • Aliens law (without right of asylum) 
  • Data protection
  • Public employment law, civil service law
  • Administrative appeals, orders
  • Weapons law

We counsel our clients in the structuring of arbitration agreements and represent them in national and international arbitration proceedings. In addition, we personally act as arbitrators.

 

Keywords 

  • Arbitration courts 
  • Alternative dispute resolution 

Association and foundation law regulates rights and duties in the course of association and foundation activity. The legal structures of the association and of the foundation are popular and widespread in Switzerland. Accordingly, it is important to have a competent contact person at one's side for questions on association and foundation law.

 

Keywords 

  • Conduct of foundation mandates 
  • Advising of associations and foundations 
  • Advice on the formation of foundations and associations 
  • Drafting of formational articles, etc.

Our counseling in the area of corporate law extends to all stages in the life cycle of a business, from its formation, through capital increases and restructurings. It includes all business and organization forms, such as the stock corporation (Aktiengesellschaft – AG), the limited liability company (Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung – GmbH), the simple partnership (einfache Gesellschaft), the association (Verein) and the foundation (Stiftung).

 

Keywords

  • Business formations
  • Administration / corporate housekeeping
  • Reorganization and restructuring (including collective reductions in force)
  • Liquidation

The representation of our clients in national and international judicial proceedings before all Swiss courts and government agencies is one of our core competences. We develop the right strategy for resolution of the dispute, assist and represent our clients in out-of-court negotiations and in judicial proceedings. Our specialists conduct trials in all areas of private law and selected administrative legal matters.

 

Keywords

  • Commercial and corporate law
  • Contract law
  • Inheritance law
  • Private and public real estate and construction law
  • Landlord-tenant law
  • Employment law
  • Banking law
  • Trademark, copyright, patent, naming and company law as well as unfair competition
  • Recognition and enforcement of foreign court decisions and arbitration awards
  • Arrest and other precautionary measures

Our attorneys counsel and represent you comprehensively in all construction law topics. Thus we counsel you knowledgably and efficiently in all areas of construction and planning law, environmental law, eminent domain and in the award of public contracts (tenders). We represent builders and neighbors in objection and complaint proceedings. In addition, we assist contractors and builders with the execution of contracts for specific work, architectural and planning agreements as well as in the enforcement of contractual and non-contractual claims.

 

Keywords 

  • Construction law
  • Building permit, building application
  • Planning objections and construction protests
  • Layout plan
  • Zoning plan
  • Land-use designation
  • Environmental law
  • Eminent domain
  • Mechanic's lien
  • Contract for specific work
  • Architectural agreement
  • Engineering agreement
  • General contractor agreement
  • Turnkey agreement
  • Investor agreement
  • Construction defects

In the area of family and child law, we assist you with separation and divorce proceedings and with preparing separation and divorce agreements. In this context we also counsel you comprehensively in regard to maintenance, parental custody and visitation and contact rights. We are also happy to take on the drafting of marriage agreements for you, particularly in regard to the division of property between the married couple. In these times, the relationship forms of cohabitation and the registered partnership have acquired increased importance; we are also ready to provide counsel to you on this. 

 

Keywords 

  • Separation, divorce 
  • Maintenance, alimony 
  • Marriage contracts, law of property 
  • Child support 
  • Custody, care 
  • Visitation and contact rights

We counsel and represent businesses and individuals in all aspects of debt enforcement and bankruptcy law and financial reorganizations. This particularly includes the following areas:

  • Debt enforcement proceedings
  • Bankruptcy and debt composition proceedings
  • Protection of legal interests during bankruptcy of business partners
  • Devising financial reorganization concepts

We will readily advise you in negotiating and drafting of contracts. In addition, we review existing contracts in regard to their validity, and potential problems and assist you with contract dissolution, with enforcement of contractual rights and with the defense against claims.

 

Keywords

  • General terms and conditions of business (GTC) 
  • Employment contract, employment law (e. g. termination, dismissal without prior notice, illness, harassment, continued payment of wages, compensation, employer's reference letter) 
  • Order
  • Loan
  • Purchase agreement (personal property, realty, purchase option and preemptive right, conversion, price reduction) 
  • Penalty for breach of contract 
  • Leasing
  • Brokerage contract 
  • Lease, tenancy law (residence, business premises, termination, rent increase and reduction, ancillary expenses) 
  • Leasehold 
  • Gift and exchange agreement 
  • Contractual liability (default, defective performance, damages)

In our firm you can expect comprehensive counseling in all areas of inheritance law. We help you examine your wealth succession from a legal perspective and, if needed, regulate it with an appropriate will or a prenuptial agreement or testamentary contract. Apart from that, we counsel and represent you in enforcing your inheritance claims in court.

 

Keywords 

  • Wills and contracts of inheritance
  • Legal questions on inheritance and estates
  • Foundations and trusts
  • Asset structuring, company succession planning
  • Administration of wills
  • Representation of heirs
  • Divisions of matrimonial property
  • Contracts for division of an estate

We counsel and assist businesses and entrepreneurs with the preparation of software contracts, software as a service, outsourcing projects and joint ventures in the IT area and in the area of new technologies (IoT or platforms based on blockchain technology).

 

Keywords

  • Licensing agreements
  • Software agreements
  • Software as a service
  • IT agreements
  • Outsourcing
  • Registration of trademarks and designs

Our team conducts internal and supervisory investigations, particularly in the financial services industry. Further, we represent the interests of our clients during investigations before supervisory bodies.

 

Keywords

  • Regulatory requirements in the financial services industry
  • Compliance
  • Conducting investigations

We counsel and represent businesses and individuals in international civil proceedings, in collaboration with foreign firms where necessary. This also includes the enforcement, recognition and execution of foreign civil court judgments.

We assist our clients in cases of international mutual assistance  in civil and criminal matters.

 

Keywords

  • International service of process
  • Taking of evidence
  • Extraditions
  • International legal cooperation

Mediation is a structured, voluntary proceeding for the constructive settlement of a conflict, at which independent, neutral third parties (mediators) give advice and support to the parties to the conflict in their process of finding a solution.

We counsel businesses and entrepreneurs on their succession planning for all types of transactions. These include, in particular, mergers, joint ventures, demergers and spin-offs, asset transfers, the formation of holding structures and their tax concepts as well as restructurings.

 

Keywords

  • Structuring and implementation of transactions
  • Legal due diligence
  • Editing and negotiation of contracts and legal documents
  • Organization of contract signing and execution
  • Legal integration questions

Counsel and representation before military courts.

 

Keywords

  • Defense before military courts 
  • Military criminal law
  • Court-appointed defense

Our attorneys counsel and represent you in all areas of personal and personality rights, particularly for the judicial enforcement of a prohibition of the infringement of personality rights, judicial enforcement of the abatement of an existing infringement of personality rights, determination of the illegality of an infringement, restraining orders, stalking, rebuttal, assertion of damages and reparations claims. 

 

Keywords

  • Name protection 
  • Infringement of personality rights 
  • Rights to one's own image 
  • Right of reply 
  • Protection of secret information 

Advice, representation and trial work in all in-rem matters, particularly: right of ownership in all its special forms (sole ownership, coownership and condominium ownership); property acquisition; conveyancing; property acquisition, transfer of ownership, rights of use; mortgage of real estate, pledge of personal property and rights; neighbors' rights; easements; priorities; etc. advice in all questions of property and ownership.

 

Keywords 

  • Purchase agreements (personal property and realty)
  • Gift agreements
  • Advice on questions about condominium ownership, enforcement of claims for dues in condominium associations 
  • Assertion and enforcement or defense of mechanic's liens 
  • Neighborhood law 
  • Protection of ownership
  • Ownership
  • Forcible entry and detainer

In this often confusing situation for laypersons, we are also ready to stand by you with our professional knowledge in an advisory or litigating role. You can benefit from various services in the area of private insurance; among others, we review insurance policies, including coverage issues, and competently handle your insurance case. Furthermore, we understand our handling of the case as providing competent support to the affected party through the social insurance proceedings as well. In matters that purely involve social insurance law, we work in an advisory and specialized role in putting forth an objection to the decisions of the particular social insurer.

 

Keywords 

  • Insurance policy
  • General terms and conditions of contract (GTCC)
  • General terms and conditions of business (GTC)
  • Social insurance policies
  • Health insurance
  • Accident insurance
  • Unemployment insurance
  • Disability insurance
  • Old-age and survivor's insurance
  • Occupational pension plan (pension fund)

We counsel and assist startups in the formation phase and during the subsequent expansion. We offer professional and pragmatic services in all areas and life stages of a startup. In the course of this, we have specialized in advising startups after formation, particularly on rounds of funding, employee participation programs and IP consulting.

 

Keywords

  • Formations and capital increases
  • Shareholder pooling agreements
  • Financing and investment agreements
  • Employee participation programs
  • Data protection
  • Licenses and other intellectual property matters
  • Software and IT contracts
  • Employment agreements

We counsel and advise you as a landlord or tenant in all aspects of landlord-tenant law. When it is necessary to protect your interests, we also conduct proceedings before the arbitration authorities and the general courts.

 

Keywords

  • Preparation and negotiation of leases
  • Rights and duties under the lease
  • Advice in setting rents
  • Rent increase and decrease
  • Tenant improvements
  • Regular and summary termination
  • Ejectment of tenants (eviction)
  • Defects and damage to the rental property
  • Subsequent tenant
  • Personal use
  • Rent deposit, etc.
  • Heating costs and incidental expenses
  • Contesting termination and lease extension
  • Defect-related rights

Consequences of an accident, incapacity for work or even disability can affect each and every person. In the area of tort law, our services particularly comprise assistance with losses in connection with the various types of liability. Both as counselors and as litigators, we offer our professional knowledge to plaintiffs or defendants. We help you assert your legal rights or assist you with the defense of unjust claims.

 

Keywords

  • Contractual liability
  • Non-contractual liability
  • Liability of public authorities
  • Road traffic, traffic accidents
  • Motor vehicle owner liability
  • Product liability
  • Personal injuries
  • Property damage
  • Strict liability
  • Absolute liability
  • Fault-based liability
  • Damages, reparation
  • Loss of housekeeping capacity, loss of earning capacity, care and nursing damages
  • calculation of damages, liquidation damages
  • Caregiving/breadwinner damages
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