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Key contacts
Head of tax team: Rolf Wüthrich
Corporate tax: Bastian Thurneysen
Private clients: Peter von Burg
Quick facts
Number of advisers

22

Languages

German, English, French, Swedish, Italian, Polish, Spanish

Services rendered

Full service commercial law firm

Key practice areas
General corporate tax
Tax
Firm overview

burckhardt advises entities and their owners in domestic and international tax questions and restructurings and renders estate tax planning services.

A substantial part of our activity we spend with the long-term tax planning in the field of corporate tax as well as succession and estate planning of individuals. We draw tax efficient reorganization plans and coordinate in international situations with our colleagues abroad. We render advice in domestic and international situations to groups of companies and their subsidiaries, to family owned businesses and their owners, to real estate transactions as well as in tax dispute situations. Long-term tax planning, restructuring and conversions, purchase and sale of entities, joint ventures and review of alternatives in corporate financing are our core competences. We assist in choosing the legal entity form and in designing your business structure, in transferring shares or in splitting off parts of enterprises. To safeguard family wealth succession and estate planning is of utmost importance for us.

Key practice areas

Corporate tax matters:

  • Cross-border project management
  • Restructuring
  • Cost-sharing arrangements
  • Transactions
  • M&A
  • Financial services
  • Corporate taxes
  • Technology
  • Value chains
  • Real estate transactions
  • Cash repatriation
  • Incentive plans

Dispute resolution:

  • Audit support
  • Dispute resolution
  • Pre-litigation
  • Litigation
  • Arbitration
  • Controversy management
  • International administrative assistance procedures

Tax advisory:

  • International and domestic tax advisory
  • Multinational group advisory
  • US In- and Outbound
  • High net wealth tax planning
  • Estate planning
  • Real estate planning
  • Crypto currencies

Indirect tax:

  • VAT
  • Swiss stamp duties
Key practice contacts
Sector expertise
  • Accounting
  • Aviation
  • Banking
  • Construction and materials
  • Consumer goods and services
  • Energy
  • Financial services
  • Food and beverage
  • Healthcare
  • Industrials
  • Insurance
  • Investment management
  • Media
  • Mining
  • Pharma and life sciences
  • Real estate
  • Tech and telecoms
  • Transport
  • Utilities
  • Renewable energies
Other offices

Usteristrasse 12
CH – 8001 Zurich
Switzerland

Meet the team
Address:
Steinentorstrasse 23
CH-4051 Basel
Tel:+41 58 881 01 01 Fax:+41 58 881 01 09 Email:Contact Us Web Address:http://www.burckhardtlaw.com
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Overview

Burckhardt is a decorated tax law firm with a practitioner roster of market leading experts and notaries. The tax function excels in cross-border restructuring and M&A transactions. Tax planning and voluntary disclosure proceedings are firm attributes. The head of tax is partner Rolf Wüthrich who is reputed for tax structuring. Attorney Bastian Thurneysen works alongside fellow attorney Peter von Burg who is a private client tax specialist.

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