Our Expertise

We advise and represent employees and employers comprehensively in all labour and public employment law matters:

• Terminations
• Wage claims and bonus entitlements
• Non-competition clauses
• Bullying / bossing in the workplace
• Sexual harassment in the workplace
• Drafting contracts and regulations

We advise companies on securing their capital base and financial institutions on granting loans. We focus on providing support in connection with the financing of projects and acquisition transactions. These include, for example:

• Selection of the appropriate financing structure
• Drafting and negotiation of project and acquisition financing agreements (national and cross-border), in particular syndicated loans
• Advice on the collateralization of financing and the drafting and negotiation of security agreements
• Preparation of legal opinions for financing transactions

Advising our clients in all areas of corporate law is part of our core business. We manage, negotiate and support domestic and international reorganisations and merger & acquisition projects (acquisitions, takeovers, mergers, spin-offs and demergers). Our services include in particular:

• Founding of companies, support for start-ups
• Capital increases, amendments to the Articles of Association, changes in the commercial register
• General Meetings (implementation | representation)
• Corporate governance, responsibility
• Shareholders' agreements
• M&A projects (due diligence, structuring, M&A contracts)
• Mergers, demergers, restructuring
• Liquidations

We advise you on estate planning and represent you in inheritance law matters and disputes before all Swiss courts and authorities. We also act as executors.

• Estate planning
• Company succession planning
• Representation in inheritance law disputes
• Execution of wills

We are committed to a functioning financial market. We represent the interests of investors and support financial service providers in regulatory matters. Our focus is on the following areas:

• Representation of investors vis-à-vis banks and asset managers.
• Detection of white-collar crime and representation of injured parties.
• Advice on financial market law issues.
• Acting as investigating officer for the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA.

We support our clients in all aspects of public and private healthcare law. Thanks to our excellent network and expertise, we deliver customized solutions in the following areas, among others:

• Professional law for the medical, psychological and healthcare professions
• Health insurance law (OKP approvals, efficiency procedures, tariff controlling, hospital lists)
• Pharmaceuticals
• Practice organization and compliance
• Practice acquisitions and sales, succession solutions

We support our clients in all matters relating to the drafting of agreements and the enforcement of contractual rights and claims. We draft, review and negotiate the following agreements, among others:

• Commercial and financing agreements
• License, publishing and other intellectual property rights agreements (incl. software)
• Work, service, consulting, co-production and cooperation agreements
• Investment and share agreements and joint venture agreements
• Partnership agreements

We support our domestic and foreign clients in the enforcement of claims in debt enforcement and bankruptcy proceedings.

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We advise companies and investors in corporate crises and help them to find economically sensible and efficient restructuring and crisis management solutions.

We support our clients in protecting their trademark - from strategy to registration and enforcement of their trademark rights.

• Development of brand strategy;
• Registration of national and international trademarks;
• Management of brand portfolios;
• Warning letters for trademark infringements;
• Judicial enforcement of claims under trademark and brand law.

We represent our clients in all commercial and civil law matters before state courts or arbitral tribunals. Our experts also act as arbitrators.

• Enforcement and defense of monetary claims;
• Enforcement of and defense against other claims, in particular those arising from unfair competition, company, name, trademark and personality rights;
• Enforcement of foreign judgments in Switzerland;
• International legal assistance in civil matters;
• Proceedings for interim legal protection (precautionary measures);

We have extensive knowledge in all areas of constitutional and administrative law. We advise both public authorities and private individuals in legal disputes as well as on organizational issues

• Permits and concessions
• Subsidies
• Taxes and fees
• State liability
• Energy and environmental law
• Community organization
• Political rights
• School and education law

We advise and represent clients in all criminal law matters, including road traffic law. Our core competences include the following activities:

• Defense in criminal proceedings (for penalty orders, indictments and summonses from authorities)
• Drafting criminal complaints
• Representation in administrative proceedings at the road traffic office
• Representation of injured parties in criminal proceedings (incl. asset recovery)
• Commercial criminal law

Copyright law is a special matter – we are specialists. We know and advocate rights holders’ interests. We bring expertise, experience, and a network into both negotiations and disputes.

• Drafting and negotiation of copyright, license and exploitation agreements
• Legal clearance for film productions and other projects
• Advice on subsidies for film and cultural projects
• Injury litigation and representation of injured parties in criminal proceedings
• Negotiation of recovery tariffs and appeal proceedings
• Legal opinion
• Advice on legal policy projects