Areas of Practice
Incorporation, organization, conversion, mergers, acquisition and sale of companies; corporate succession.
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Creating individual contract concepts, project management, drafting all types of contracts and general terms and conditions in the listed fields of practice.
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Estate planning, advice, drawing up wills and inheritance contracts, execution of wills, estate administration and distribution.
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Tax planning and advice for companies and individuals.
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Advice in all questions of private und public employment law; drafting of individual and collective work contracts; drafting of employee participation programs; supporting businesses in questions relating to termination, mass dismissals and severance schemes; advice on social security law in the context of employment relationships (especially regarding expatriates); employment law litigation of any kind.
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Buying and selling property, establishing building leases, mortgages and easements. Drawing up works and architecture contracts, supporting property developers in demanding construction projects.
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Acting as arbitrators, mediators and party representatives in arbitration and mediation proceedings.
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Litigation in all areas of commercial and contract law, in particular in the abovenamed fields.
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Representing clients and conducting of cases in all areas of intellectual property (esp. patent and technology law, trademark, copyright and design law), competition, media and data protection law; Drafting of agreements (license agreements, settlement agreements, technology transfer agreements, franchising agreements etc. relating to patent, trademark, copyright and design law); IP due diligence and M&A advices; Special expertise in IT law and protection of trade secrets, business models, telecommunication-, insurance- and capital market technologies.
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Conducting searches (patentability/trademark novelty/infringement); Obtaining protective rights (defining protection strategy, drafting and worldwide filing, representation in front of all PTOs, administration, prosecution and enforcement of intellectual property rights); IP portfolio management; Monitoring of patents and registered trademark rights; Defense of IP rights and IP conflict management; Exploitation of rights; Commercial and fiscal (tax) evaluation and advices in the context of intellectual property rights.
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Drafting of license; Work and use contracts relating to IT (in particular general terms and conditions, contracts for software maintenance, e-commerce, distribution and franchising agreements); Technology transfer and data protection; Compliance assessment for data protection authorities worldwide and assessment of risks of non-compliance.
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Litigation and advice in all aspects of transport, forwarding and logistics (transports by road, air, railway, inland navigation, sea and multimodal transports) on the basis of the respective conventions (CMR, Montreal Convention, Warsaw Convention, CIM, CMNI, Hague-Visby-Rules). Claims recovery on behalf of transport and liability insurers.
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Advising of ship owners, railway companies or investors regarding ship or railway finance issues (purchase agreements, loan agreements, mortgages, securities), legal opinions on Swiss law, representation vis-à-vis regulatory and register authorities.
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Advising of private persons in relation to questions of constitutional and administrative law; support in securing of approvals; representation in administrative and court proceedings; drafting of expert opinions.
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