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Bär & Karrer Ltd

Private Wealth Law

High Net Worth Guide 2025 : 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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Private Wealth Law - Switzerland

Band 1

Band 1


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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  • Bär & Karrer are my go-to in Zürich. They are blessed with a very deep bench and have an incredible work ethic. They are exemplary.

    Private Wealth Law respondentHigh Net Worth
  • I recommend Bär & Karrer Ltd to people. They are really impressive, knowledgeable and good at tax. Their lawyers understand the full range of issues and are proper private client lawyers.

    Private Wealth Law respondentHigh Net Worth
  • Bär & Karrer are definitely one of the best teams and I've worked with many of their lawyers. They also have dual capacity as litigators and wealth planners which clients really admire.

    Private Wealth Law respondentHigh Net Worth

Notable Practitioners

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  • Band 1Daniel Leu
    Band 1Daniel Leu

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

      Private Wealth Law respondentHigh Net Worth
    • Daniel Leu is able to provide high level advice on sophisticated legal matters. He is very reliable, strategic and a pleasure to work with.

      Private Wealth Law respondentHigh Net Worth
    • 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.

      Private Wealth Law respondentHigh Net Worth
  • Band 1Tina Wüstemann
    Band 1Tina Wüstemann

    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 a top operator.

      Private Wealth Law respondentHigh Net Worth
    • 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.

      Private Wealth Law respondentHigh Net Worth
    • Tina Wüstemann is a mastermind. She is very energetic and has a good understanding of regimes. She is very experienced, practical and collaborative.

      Private Wealth Law respondentHigh Net Worth
  • Band 2Daniel Bader
    Band 2Daniel Bader

    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 Bader is a good partner to discuss complex issues with.

      Private Wealth Law respondentHigh Net Worth
    • Daniel Bader is very technically able and very aware of all international issues.

      Private Wealth Law respondentHigh Net Worth
    • Daniel Bader is great with tax and he is an excellent private client lawyer.

      Private Wealth Law respondentHigh Net Worth
  • Band 3Aurélie Conrad Hari
    Band 3Aurélie Conrad Hari

    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 has shown herself to be very competent.

      Private Wealth Law respondentHigh Net Worth
    • Aurélie Conrad Hari has excellent French language capabilities.

      Private Wealth Law respondentHigh Net Worth
    • Aurélie Conrad Hari has an incredible work ethic.

      Private Wealth Law respondentHigh Net Worth
  • Band 3Ruth Bloch-Riemer
    Band 3Ruth Bloch-Riemer

    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 smart and is very visible on the market.

      Private Wealth Law respondentHigh Net Worth
    • Ruth Bloch-Riemer is a pleasure to work with.

      Private Wealth Law respondentHigh Net Worth

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