Private Clients, Trusts & Estates

Our private client team advises private clients and their families in all matters relating to matrimonial property and succession law, including domestic and international estate planning, estate administration and executorships. We also assist our clients regarding residence and domicile in Switzerland as well as matters relating to trusts and foundations.

We advise clients on using and setting up legal structures for estate planning (including trusts or other structures in foreign jurisdictions), inheritance or estate tax.

As trust matters become increasingly litigious, not only in common law jurisdictions but also in the civil law context, we represent clients in all types of litigation involving trusts, gifts, wills, estates and matrimonial property before Swiss courts and - together with firms in other jurisdictions - before foreign courts and in multi-jurisdictional disputes.

 

The scope of our work includes:

  • Trust and estate litigation
  • International matrimonial property disputes
  • Cross-border disputes involving succession, trusts and estates
  • Estate planning
  • Matrimonial property agreements

 

  • Successions, wills and gifts
  • Executorships
  • Trusts, foundations and international charitable foundations
  • Relocation of individuals and legal entities
  • Succession planning for closely held enterprises
Key Contact
 
 
Team Members
 
Daniel Leu
Associate
 
 
 
 
 
 
Edoardo Buzzi
Associate
 
Roger Büchi
Associate