We offer advice to businesses and workers on matters pertaining to labour law with regard to both in and out-of-court proceedings. We can assist clients on a wide range of matters, including drawing up work contracts, special agreements, and termination and settlement agreements with non-compete clauses. Our firm also has a wealth of experience in matters related to collective labour contracts and in the field of arbitration.
We assist companies and business professionals in matters concerning corporate and contract law both in setting up the business and in the subsequent operational and management phases. We can offer advice on choosing the legal structure most suited to the needs of the client to ensure optimization of their business operations as well as on drawing up corporate governance rules. We also offer legal advice on ordinary operations and drawing up contracts as well as on extraordinary operations subject to corporate law such as share capital increases, mergers and demergers, buying and selling of shares and business units. The firm can also help companies with regard to international delocalization.
We assist individuals and companies with regard to all property and commercial operations and transactions that require the intervention of a notary. With regard to property, our services cover contracts of sale, donations, establishment of easements, testamentary disposition (such as wills or testamentary contracts) and marriage agreements. With regard to commercial operations, our services cover setting up companies, capital increases and reductions, liquidation and restructuring operations (mergers, demergers, asset transfers, transformations) as well as any other deed requiring changes to a company’s articles of association or by-laws.
We regularly assist our clients with regard to civil disputes and criminal proceedings brought before the courts in Switzerland or abroad. The firm works with a network of partners that enables us to pursue and coordinate international legal disputes. Our clients’ interests are protected in ordinary court proceedings and in arbitration proceedings both in Switzerland and abroad.
We offer advice and assistance with regard to drawing up contracts of marriage, co-habitation and registered partnerships. We can assist unmarried parents with regard to drawing up and adopting agreements concerning their children and also assist our clients in separation and divorce proceedings and procedures concerning their children, both in and out of court, as well as in proceedings before the regional protection authorities.
We offer advice and assistance with regard to inheritance planning, including of a corporate nature, and in drawing up testamentary contracts and dispositions. We assist clients in relation to inheritance division and in extrajudicial disputes or litigation proceedings. The advice provided by our firm extends also to the regulation of inheritances through the establishment of apposite legal entities.
We protect our clients’ interests in cases concerning financial offences, representing them during both the investigation and trial stages. We also protect the interests of injured parties in criminal proceedings with a view to obtaining compensation. We are assisted by external professionals who draw up expert accounting and finance reports to be used in court proceedings.
We have a wealth of experience in representing doctors and patients in relation to medical malpractice offences or health law breaches. We are assisted by certified experts who draw up the necessary specialist medical reports for use in court. We regularly provide advice and training to health structures on managing liability in relation to patient care and patient data.
The firm specializes in the provision of international legal assistance on request in relation to criminal matters, particularly if the request is from neighbouring states and the case concerns legal or natural persons. It represents the client both in and out of court, coordinating its operations with its corresponding partners abroad.