Bär & Karrer Ltd

Firm Overview: 

Bär & Karrer is a leading Swiss law firm with more than 200 lawyers in Zurich, Geneva, Lugano, Zug and Basel. The firm’s core business is advising clients on innovative and complex transactions and representing them in litigation, arbitration and regulatory proceedings. Clients range from multinational corporations to private individuals in Switzerland and around the world.

Senior Partner: Susanne Schreiber

Number of partners: 49

Number of lawyers: 200

Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish 

Main Areas of Practice:  

• Arbitration
• Banking & Finance
• Capital Markets & Listed Companies
• Competition & Antitrust
• Corporate & Commercial
• Crisis Management & Internal
• Investigations
• Employment & Migration
• Intellectual Property
• Litigation
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Notarial Services
• Privacy & Data Protection
• Private Client & Estate Planning
• Real Estate & Environmental Law
• Sports Law
• Tax, Social Security & Tax
• Litigation
• Technology, Media &
• Telecommunications
• Turnaround, Reorganisation & Insolvency
• White Collar Crime

Banking & Insurance:  

Advice to banks, securities dealers, insurance and reinsurance companies, and other financial institutions. Representation of financial institutions, issuers, investors, and other market participants in enforcement proceedings of the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory. Authority FINMA.

• Banking: Eric Stupp, Email: [email protected]
• Insurance: Dr. Peter Hsu, Email: [email protected]
• Banking: Dr. Cédric Chapuis (Geneva), Email: [email protected]

Capital Markets:  

Representation of issuers and underwriters in domestic and international securities offerings, e.g. in IPOs, rights offerings, convertible bonds, hybrid instruments.

• Dr. Urs Kägi, Email: [email protected]
• Lukas Roesler, Email: [email protected]

Financing:  

Advice to banks and other financial institutions and companies on domestic and cross-border financing transactions across a wide range of industries.

• Dr. Ralph Malacrida (Zurich), Email: [email protected]
• Frédéric Bétrisey (Geneva), Email: [email protected]

Internal Investigation & Cross-Border Proceedings:  

Internal investigations for corporations in Switzerland and around the world. International legal assistance proceedings (civil and criminal matters) and international administrative assistance proceedings.

• Dr. Andreas D Länzlinger, Email: [email protected]
• Dr. Joel Fischer, Email: [email protected]
• Eric Stupp, Email: [email protected]

Litigation:  

Corporate and commercial disputes and all related issues. Ad hoc and institutional arbitrations governed by Swiss or foreign law. Members of the arbitration team regularly serve as party appointed arbitrators, sole arbitrators, and chairpersons of arbitral tribunals, as well as mediators.

• Litigation: Matthew T Reiter, Email: [email protected]
• Arbitration: Aurélie Conrad Hari, Email: [email protected]
• Arbitration: Nadja Jaisli Kull, Email: [email protected]
• Arbitration: Dr. Pascal Hachem, Email: [email protected]

Mergers & Acquisitions:  

Complex domestic and cross-border transactions, acquisitions and divestments, auctions, friendly and hostile takeovers, spinoffs, mergers, transaction finance and restructurings.

• Prof Dr. Rolf Watter, Email: [email protected]
• Public M&A: Dr. Mariel Hoch, Email: [email protected]
• Private M&A/Private Equity: Dr. Christoph Neeracher (Zurich), Email: [email protected]
• Private M&A/Private Equity: Martin Anderson (Geneva), Email: [email protected]

Private Clients:  

Advice to private clients and their families on matrimonial property and succession law, including domestic and international estate planning, estate administration and executorships.

Assistance with regard to taking up residence and domicile in Switzerland. Representation of clients in all types of litigation involving trusts, gifts, wills, estates and matrimonial property.

• Contact: Tina Wuestemann, Email: [email protected]

Tax:  

All matters related to direct and indirect taxes, customs duties, and other levies to corporations and individuals, financial institutions, institutional and private investors, partnerships, trusts, estates, and foundations. Comprehensive tax planning solutions.

• Corporate: Susanne Schreiber, Email: [email protected]
• Private Clients: Daniel Bader, Email: [email protected]

White Collar Crime:  

Defending individuals and companies in complex criminal matters and representing victims of frauds and other wrongdoings in asset tracing cases before criminal law authorities.

• Saverio Lembo, Email: [email protected]
• Andrew Michael Garbarski, Email: [email protected]