You value good corporate governance, high quality of your corporate documents (especially in light of a potential transaction/cooperation with a third party) and full awareness of relevant legal development, but lack the budget for an internal legal department?
We offer a corporate secretary package at an attractive fixed rate with the following services and benefits:
You are a financial service provider or your business activity in the proximity of the financial services sector and you would like to be able to focus 100% on your core activity or you do not have the budget for an internal Legal & Compliance Officer or both?
We offer an outsourcing solution at an attractive fixed rate with the following services and benefits:
You would like to incorporate a Company Limited by Shares or a Limited Liability Company in Switzerland and you want full cost certainty? We offer an incorporation package at an attractive fixed rate.
You would like to delegate the responsibility for your tax filings to an expert and/or to obtain a yearly tax compliance review? We offer preparing and submitting your periodical tax filings at an attractive fixed rate. In addition, we will raise your attention to important tax develop-ments or potentially relevant tax issues within your organization.
Are you repeatedly confronted with smaller or larger legal questions to which you would love receive an answer in an uncomplicated and timely manner? Are you tired of weighing each time whether or not you should consult an attorney for that specific question? Exactly for such scenarios we offer the possibility to subscribe for our legal services for a term of at least one year. Your benefits as a subscriber consist in the availability of our full range of services and specialists at an attractive discount as compared to our standard hourly rates.
With the different package sizes that we offer you can optimally control your costs and optimally adjust the service level to your specific de-mands.
We offer the following package sizes:
Reading example: If you subscribe for the smallest package (S), you may consult any or several of our specialists up to a maximum of 1 hour time spent per month for legal or tax advice, while benefitting from a rebate of 20% on the standard hourly rate.
You would like to incorporate an Association in Switzerland and you want full cost certainty? We offer an incorporation package at an attractive fixed rate.
You would like to incorporate a Charitable Foundation in Switzerland and you want full cost certainty? We offer an incorporation package at an attractive fixed rate.
What will happen to you and who will speak on your behalf, in case you could no longer take or communicate such decisions yourself?
By setting up a Power of Attorney in Case of Incapacity you can take matters in your own hand and leave binding instructions as to your representation in personal affairs (Personensorge), the management of your wealth (Vermögenssorge) and legal representation (Rechtsvertretung) in case you should become incapable to look after these matters yourself (e.g. after an accident or in case of severe afflictions such as dementia). For your Power of Attorney to be valid, specific formal requirements must be complied with. Further, it must be ensured that your instructions can be found in a timely manner when needed. In case you have not issued a Power of Attorney in Case of Incapacity, a special authority (Kindes- und Erwachsenenschutzbehörde, KESB) will decide who shall be the person to represent you, be it a family member or a third person.
We offer drafting a personalized Power of Attorney in Case of Incapacity at a fixed rate. In addition, we offer to store your original Power of Attorney in our bank safe and keep it available for emergencies at all times.
Do you want to receive life-prolonging measures in case of a severe affliction or accident? How would you like to be treated medically?
These and many other issues can be addressed and planned for in an Advance Medical Care Directive (Patient Decree). Please bear in mind that it is highly important that your Patient Decree is safely stored and available in a timely manner when needed. You should safe the information about its existence and location of deposit on your health insurance card.
We offer drafting a personalized Patient Decree at a fixed rate.
Our recommendation to you is to provide for simple but clear provisions for your estate and inheritance issues – doing so will help you and your dearest to avoid unnecessary conflicts. For your Last Will to be valid, it must comply with certain formal requirements. In addition, it must be ensured that your original Last Will is kept safe and immediately retrievable when needed.
We offer drafting on your behalf a personalized Last Will at a fixed rate. In addition, we offer to store your original Last Will in our bank safe and keep it available for use at all times.
By means of an Inheritance Contract, you and your dearest can mutually provide for inheritance arrangements that are fully binding for all parties involved and offer a maximum of legal certainty. It also enables you to circumvent possible compulsory portions, e.g. in order to guarantee a "most-favourable"-arrangement for your spouse or descendants. For your inheritance contract to be valid, certain formal requirements must be complied with. In addition, it must be ensured that your original Inheritance Contract is kept safe and immediately retrievable when needed.
We offer drafting on your behalf a personalized Inheritance Contract at a fixed rate. In addition, we offer to store your original inheritance con-tract in our bank safe and keep it available for use at all times.
Did you already consider how your or your spouse’s death would impact the financial standing and living standard of your dearest? Would you like to protect each other financially or provide for a „most favourable“-arrangement? By means of a marriage contract governed by Swiss law you can not only select the applicable matrimonial property regime (e.g. separation of property in order to keey your wealth and income separate from your spouse's) but also deviate from the statutory 50/50-allocation under the community of accrued gains regime and provide for a participation in the surplus (Vorschlag) in order to most-favour your spouse. For your marriage contract to be valid, certain formal requirements must be complied with. In addition, it must be ensured that your original marriage contract is kept safe and immediately retrievable when needed.
We offer drafting on your behalf a personalized marriage contract at a fixed rate. In addition, we offer to store your original marriage contract in our bank safe and keep it available for use at all times.
Would you like to ensure that your will and your corresponding instructions are implemented both faithfully according to your wishes as well as in a professional manner? Would like to reduce, to the benefit of your dearest, the potential for conflicts and the burden of cumbersome work that is typically related to the execution of a will (including the timely creation of an inventory and tax declaration upon death)? As executor of your will, we will make sure that your instructions are propertly executet, take care of all financial matters and disburden your heirs of administrative work in times of sorrow. We are prepared to offer these services at a fixed rate.
You and your partner have grown apart and would like to obtain counselling regarding the consequences of a divorce or separation? Your mutual relationship is, however, still intact enough that you can honestly and openly discuss this topic with each other and you would therefore like to jointly seek for a fair solution. We offer such counselling services as well as the preparation of a comprehensive joint divorce convention (including – depending on your personal situation – childcare allocation, alimony calculation, real estate and living arrangements, as well as de-termination of pension or matrimonial property compensations) which can be submitted to court.
You and your registered partner have grown apart and would like to obtain counselling regarding the consequences of a dissolution of your registered partnership? Your mutual relationship is, however, still intact enough that you can honestly and openly discuss this topic with each other and you would therefore like to jointly seek for a fair solution. We offer such counselling services as well as the preparation of a compre-hensive joint separation convention which can be submitted to court.
Every registered partnership should provide for a simple but clear ar-rangement of their assets and properties and should consider whether or not they would like to protect each other financially or provide for a „most favorable “-arrangement in case of the other partner's death? By means of a Swiss law governed property contract you can not only select the applicable property scheme but also provide for a participation in the surplus (Vorschlag) deviating from the statutory allocation. For your property contract to be valid, certain form requirements must be com-plied with. In addition, it must be ensured that your original property contract is kept safe and immediately retrievable when needed.
We offer drafting on your behalf a personalized property contract at a fixed rate. In addition, we offer to store your original property contract in our bank safe and keep it available for use at all times.
By means of participating in 5 mediation sessions conducted by our specialists, you can seize the opportunity of trying to discuss and find with your (former) partner a mutually acceptable and binding solution regarding alimony payments, childcare arrangements etc. Taking this route may, if both partners are in principle willing to discuss and negotiate in good faith, save you and your (former) partner a substantial amount of worries, nerves and costs and considerably increase the chances of avoiding lengthy and unpleasant court proceedings by mutu-al agreement. Successful mediation typically leads to a win-win situation for all parties involved.
Your employment relationship has been terminated and your former employer has issued an employment reference letter that, pursuant to your impression, does not fully and accurately reflect your activities and/or work performance? We offer reviewing employment reference letters with a special focus on comprehensiveness, truthfulness and compliance with market standards as well as on whether or not it will foster your further career and professional development. In addition, we will ensure that it does not contain any non-permissible (hidden) code words or phrases.
You are a Swiss resident and you possess assets in Switzerland or abroad that have not been taxed so far in Switzerland? You are a finan-cial intermediary that helps clients to regularize their assets? With a voluntary self-disclosure of tax liabilities you may be able to achieve a reduced tax penalty or even impunity and you make your assets again accessible for investments.
We will assist you in the preparation of your disclosure statement and we will account ourselves responsible for the consistent and profession-al communication with all authorities concerned.
You would like to delegate the responsibility for your tax filings to an expert and/or to obtain a yearly tax compliance review? We offer pre-paring and submitting your periodical tax filings at an attractive fixed rate. In addition, we will raise your attention to important tax develop-ments or potentially relevant tax issues within your organization.
You are an entrepreneur or self-employed or you are each year con-fronted with complex and voluminous tax filings for other reasons? We offer preparing and submitting your periodical tax filings at an attractive fixed rate. In addition, we will raise your attention to tax optimization possibilities.