About

Provided by Bär & Karrer Ltd

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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Private Wealth Law - Switzerland

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What the Team is Known For

Pre-eminent Swiss law firm Bär & Karrer offers first-class advice to wealthy clients in connection with cross-border trust and estate litigation, as well as non-contentious tax, trust, estate planning, relocation and family office matters.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Daniel Leu
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Daniel Leu
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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 very responsive. He is capable in large cases and he knows his stuff.

Daniel Leu is able to provide high level advice on sophisticated legal matters. He is very reliable, strategic and a pleasure to work with.

Daniel Leu is fabulous. We work on unbelievably complex planning where he is superb. He is very thoughtful and he knows much more than just Swiss law. He is the ultimate cross-border advisor.

Tina Wüstemann
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Tina Wüstemann
Head of Private Wealth Law
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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 a top operator.

Tina Wüstemann is one of the best trust litigators in the world who is known for her expertise. She is a delightful and kind person. She is excellent.

Tina Wüstemann is a mastermind. She is very energetic and has a good understanding of regimes. She is very experienced, practical and collaborative.

Daniel Bader
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Daniel Bader
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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 Bader is a good partner to discuss complex issues with.

Daniel Bader is very technically able and very aware of all international issues.

Daniel Bader is great with tax and he is an excellent private client lawyer.

Aurélie Conrad Hari
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Aurélie Conrad Hari
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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 has shown herself to be very competent.

Aurélie Conrad Hari has excellent French language capabilities.

Aurélie Conrad Hari has an incredible work ethic.

Ruth Bloch-Riemer
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Ruth Bloch-Riemer
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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 smart and is very visible on the market.

Ruth Bloch-Riemer is a pleasure to work with.

Ranked Individuals at
Bär & Karrer Ltd

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Private Wealth Law

Daniel Leu
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Daniel Leu
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Band 1
Tina Wüstemann
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Tina Wüstemann
Head of Private Wealth Law
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Band 1
Daniel Bader
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Daniel Bader
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Band 2
Aurélie Conrad Hari
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Aurélie Conrad Hari
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Band 3
Ruth Bloch-Riemer
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Ruth Bloch-Riemer
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Band 3

Members

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Andrew Garbarski

Cesare Jermini

Christoph Suter

Massimo Vanotti

Paolo Bottini

Thomas Stoltz

Tina Wüstemann

Tina Wüstemann

Head of Department