ADDITIONAL AREAS OF PRACTICE
Thanks to its codifications fundament, the Civil Law system no doubt enables to master in parallel many more areas of practice than the Common Law system, based upon judicial decisions. The latter is constantly changing because it is based on case law, by essence being constantly renewed by daily new Court decisions from dozens of different State/Federal Courts as well as from all Common Law jurisdictions. This forces Common Law practitioners to specialize in one, maximum two fields of law in order to keep abreast of its constant developments. Not so in Civil Law jurisdictions. As a Swiss lawyer trained and qualified in California law, I can move from one to several other fields. Additionally, we are often working in teams with one or more specialists in different fields of law and/or different jurisdictions.
Try us on matters covered by anyone of the following fields of law:
Arbitration
As a former in-house and general counsel who has never stopped advising small corporations and world conglomerates, I have advised and am advising as an attorney at law clients in arbitration in several cases, most but not
Commercial Litigation
As a former in-house and general counsel, I am more inclined to preventing litigation thanks to proper advice, shrewd contract negotiations and draft than conducting confrontations. Indeed, solving business
Conflict of Laws
International or cross-border legal cases are quite common in Switzerland. The explanations are: First, it is a rather small country with a population of only about 8,3 million people -1,7 millions of them being foreigners- second, it is located in
Corporate Law, M&A
Our experience covers all aspects of corporate law: The cautious choice of the legal entity to be set-up, its domiciliation, its management organization, sitting as Member of the Board of its Directors, advising all legal aspects of the
Fiduciary Operations
As Swiss lawyers, we have a long experience of acting in our own name, but for the benefit and at the risk and costs of our clients. We are acting as ‘legal’ owners, that is to say externally as true owner, but internally you, the client,
Banking, Financing & IPOs
We are regularly advising mostly foreign clients in their selecting and monitoring Swiss banks for their portfolio management, securing money transfers and compliance measures. Third party financing for clients unable to finance
Real Estate Transactions
My LL.M. thesis at U.C. Berkeley in 1978 was titled: INTRODUCTION TO THE COMMON LAW OF REAL ESTATE TO CIVIL LAW LAWYERS. I am still a connoisseur of the ‘Rule against Perpetuities’… Almost all Swiss Cantons
White Collar Crimes
The criminal law aspects of national and international business disputes increase rapidly, whether in case of fraud, embezzlement, money laundering, unlawful insider trading, to name a few. According to the Association of Certified
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