Department profile
Bär & Karrer Ltd

Art and Cultural Property Law

High Net Worth Guide 2026 : Switzerland


Bär & Karrer Ltd

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About

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Helping individuals, families and charities succeed in a complex and changing world.

Advice that makes a difference is based on a unique mix of legal skills, interdisciplinary thinking, a deep understanding of family dynamics and generations of experience.

Our Private Clients Team has unparalleled expertise in advising clients worldwide on contentious and non-contentious matters, covering the full range of legal issues our clients face.

We advise and represent private clients and their families, entrepreneurs, family offices, closely held businesses, charitable organisations as well as service providers such as banks and trustees. Among the families we advise, many have relied on our firm's services for several decades, some of them now in the third generation.

Apart from our experience and legal expertise, our clients appreciate our responsiveness and our ability to understand family dynamics.

Matters we assist our clients with include:

  • Administration and executorship of complex estates
  • Art collections (tax and succession planning concerning art collections)
  • Philanthropy and the formation of charitable organisations, including governance and management aspects
  • Estate Planning
  • Trusts and Foundations
  • Estate & Trust Litigation
  • Real Estate planning and transactions
  • Family Law
  • Relocation to Switzerland
  • Taxation aspects in relation to all the above

Chambers Review

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Art and Cultural Property Law - Switzerland

Band 1

Band 1


What the Team is Known For
Bär & Karrer has an established reputation in Switzerland and internationally for art and cultural property matters, regularly acting for art collectors, auction houses, ultra-affluent families and entrepreneurs. The firm is well positioned to handle the most complex art sales and transfers on a domestic and cross-border basis.

Strengths

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  • Bär & Karrer's art and cultural law practice is market-leading in Switzerland.

    Art and Cultural Property Law respondentHigh Net Worth
  • They have been great to work with. They do excellent work on complex issues and give very practical advice.

    Art and Cultural Property Law respondentHigh Net Worth

Notable Practitioners

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  • Band 2Daniel Leu
    Band 2Daniel Leu

    Daniel Leu

    Daniel Leu brings a vast wealth of private client expertise in tax and trusts to matters involving art collectors, art dealers, charities and fiduciaries in connection with art transactions and gifts.
    • Daniel Leu is very meticulous and attentive.

      Art and Cultural Property Law respondentHigh Net Worth
    • Daniel Leu is absolutely on top of issues.

      Art and Cultural Property Law respondentHigh Net Worth
  • Band 2Ruth Bloch-Riemer
    Band 2Ruth Bloch-Riemer

    Ruth Bloch-Riemer

    Ruth Bloch-Riemer brings her tax expertise to art and cultural property matters. Her clients include artists, dealers and collectors.

    • Ruth Bloch-Riemer is great. She has many impressive clients and serves her clients very skilfully.

      Art and Cultural Property Law respondentHigh Net Worth
    • Ruth is very pragmatic, commercial, responsive and good at finding the balance between the strict technical option and what you can make work. She can balance things across different jurisdictions.

      Art and Cultural Property Law respondentHigh Net Worth

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