Corporate Law

We assist companies ranging from family owned businesses to listed corporations with respect to the incorporation, the drafting of articles of association, by-laws and organisational regulations, and general assemblies. We advise our clients in the fields of mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs and other types of re-organisation and restructuring.

We assist entrepreneurs and shareholders in all corporate and contractual matters. We represent our clients before governmental bodies and in court. Together with our clients we develop individual solutions for the succession. In co-operation with external tax experts we help to optimise the tax situation.

Our legal services cover in particular the following areas:

  • Company law
  • Mergers & acquisitions (M&A)
  • Competition and antitrust law
  • Succession planning and arrangements
  • Commercial law
  • Contract law (employment, distribution etc.)
  • Intellectual property law (IP)
  • Information technology law (IT)
  • Construction and public procurement law
  • Data protection law
  • Debt enforcement, insolvency and bankruptcy law
  • European law, contractual relationships Switzerland-EU
  • Constitutional and administrative law
  • Arbitration

Contact: Beat Denzler, Heinrich Hempel, Daniel Maritz, Dorothee Auwärter, Michael Hochstrasser