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Bär & Karrer Ltd

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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.

Capital Markets:  

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

Financing:  

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

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.

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.

Mergers & Acquisitions:  

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

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.

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.

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.

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Switzerland - Head office
Brandschenkestrasse 90, Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, CH-8027

Web: www.baerkarrer.ch

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +41 58 261 5000

Fax: +41 58 261 5001

Switzerland