Pascal Hinny

Practice Areas

Tax

Career

Prof. Dr. Pascal Hinny is a partner leading the Tax practice at our firm’s Zurich office. He specializes in national and international tax planning for multinationals, a field spanning everything from M&A, restructurings, recapitalization, financing and relocation to private equity and family offices. In addition, Pascal regularly represents taxpayers in front of tax authorities, in court- and MAP proceedings and acts as expert witness both for taxpayers and governmental bodies.

Pascal Hinny is a professor of national and international tax law at the law faculty of the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.

University of St.Gallen (lic. iur., 1990, Dr. iur., 1995), Swiss Bar Admission (1991), Swiss Certified Tax Expert (1998), London School of Economics LSE (LL.M. Tax, 2001), Joined Lenz & Staehelin (2002), University of Fribourg (Professor of Tax Law, 2002), Partner at Lenz & Staehelin (2007)

Professional Memberships

International Fiscal Association (IFA) Swiss branch, Member of board; EXPERTsuisse Tax Chapter; Direct tax group of Confédération Fiscale Européenne (CFE), Brussels; Tax group Germany – Austria – Switzerland (D-ACH), Berlin; Co-Head of Zurich Bar Association (ZAV) tax group

Full professor of tax law at the law faculty of the University of Fribourg; Director of the Institute of Law and Economics (IDÉ), University of Fribourg; Co-editor for international tax law of University of St.Gallen tax journal "IFF Forum für Steuerrecht" (FStR); On a regular basis advisor to and member of various expert groups of Swiss governmental bodies.

Languages Spoken

German, English, French