
Private Wealth Law
High Net Worth Guide 2026 : Switzerland
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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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Strengths
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Bär & Karrer has impressive commerciality and a clear in-depth understanding of the law of trusts in theory and in practice.
Private Wealth Law respondentHigh Net WorthI think Bär & Karrer is the finest firm in the Swiss private client area, and with such a deep bench - they are incredible.
Private Wealth Law respondentHigh Net WorthBär & Karrer's private wealth practice has an outstanding market position in Switzerland and is unparalleled in its breadth and depth.
Private Wealth Law respondentHigh Net WorthBär & Karrer‘s private client team plays an outstanding role in the Swiss private wealth industry. Their broad and deep knowledge of all tax, inheritance and other aspects seems unparalleled.
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Notable Practitioners
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Band 1 
Daniel Leu
Daniel Leu is a partner and draws on significant experience in wealth and succession planning, as well as family office, art law and contentious trust matters. Daniel Leu is super-bright and effective.
Private Wealth Law respondentHigh Net WorthDaniel Leu is highly regarded, and I was impressed by him. He was alive to the international elements, not just the Swiss side, that needed to be dealt with.
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Band 1 
Band 1 
Tina Wüstemann
Tina Wüstemann is widely recognised as one of Switzerland's top practitioners when it comes to trust and estate litigation, as well as complex international wealth planning and estate administration. Tina Wüstemann is the top of the top. She's a great lawyer and super litigator.
Private Wealth Law respondentHigh Net WorthTina Wüstemann is simply the best.
Private Wealth Law respondentHigh Net WorthTina is excellent - she's my go-to in Switzerland. She is fabulous, responsive and technically very strong.
Private Wealth Law respondentHigh Net WorthTina is one of the leading lights of the private wealth Bar. She's terrific, smart and tenacious, but also practical.
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Band 2 
Band 2 
Aurélie Conrad Hari
Geneva-based Aurélie Conrad Hari is a civil law expert and her practice encompasses cross-border trust and estate disputes involving private clients and trustees. Aurélie Conrad Hari is excellent and always available.
Private Wealth Law respondentHigh Net WorthAurélie Conrad Hari is very impressive.
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Band 2 
Band 2 
Daniel Bader
Daniel Bader is a partner and international tax planning expert who is extremely well versed in dealing with private wealth structures and succession planning. Daniel is able to simplify and clearly explain in a clear precise way the technical matters that were difficult. The client appreciated the way he kept things simple and precise at the same time.
Private Wealth Law respondentHigh Net WorthDaniel Bader is excellent.
Private Wealth Law respondentHigh Net WorthDaniel Bader is a real pro.
Private Wealth Law respondentHigh Net Worth
Band 2 
Band 2 
Ruth Bloch-Riemer
Ruth Bloch-Riemer handles all aspects of tax matters for private clients and frequently advises on cross-border wealth structuring issues. Ruth Bloch-Riemer is very pragmatic, commercial, responsive and very good at finding the balance between the strict technical option and what is practical in the situation.
Private Wealth Law respondentHigh Net WorthRuth Bloch-Riemer is very knowledgeable.
Private Wealth Law respondentHigh Net WorthRuth Bloch-Riemer is an outstanding private wealth and tax lawyer, and I really enjoy working with her.
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Up and Coming 
Up and Coming 
Hanna Brozzo
Hanna Brozzo is a partner who advises clients on wealth and succession planning, cross-border taxation and tax disputes.
Hanna Brozzo is very pragmatic and consistent.
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