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Bär & Karrer Ltd

Family/Matrimonial: High Net Worth

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

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Family/Matrimonial: High Net Worth - Switzerland

Band 2

Band 2


What the Team is Known For

Bär & Karrer, alongside its strong private client offering, also advises on high net worth family and matrimonial matters, including financial separation agreements, child custody and estate disputes.

Strengths

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  • Bär & Karrer is first-rate at international prenuptials and marriage contracts, and is second to none in understanding complex finances.

    Family/Matrimonial: High Net Worth respondentHigh Net Worth
  • Bär & Karrer is superb in its attention to detail in understanding international issues.

    Family/Matrimonial: High Net Worth respondentHigh Net Worth
  • The team at Bär & Karrer are very competent at handling inheritance law proceedings in Switzerland, including those with international aspects.

    Family/Matrimonial: High Net Worth respondentHigh Net Worth

Notable Practitioners

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  • Band 2Tina Wüstemann
    Band 2Tina Wüstemann

    Tina Wüstemann

    Tina Wüstemann demonstrates expertise in family law, frequently advising high net worth and ultra-high net worth clients on cross-border prenuptial agreements, among other family law matters.

    • Tina Wüstemann has superb attention to detail when understanding international issues.

      Family/Matrimonial: High Net Worth respondentHigh Net Worth
    • Tina has enormous experience and a real grip on all her cases. She's very sharply focused on what she wants to achieve and is very responsive and knowledgeable.

      Family/Matrimonial: High Net Worth respondentHigh Net Worth
    • Tina Wüstemann is excellent and my go-to family lawyer in Switzerland. She is fabulous, responsive and very technically strong.

      Family/Matrimonial: High Net Worth respondentHigh Net Worth

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