Property and commercial law_

In the commercial field, we follow every area of business life anywhere in Switzerland because our work involves:

• the constitution of public limited liability companies, private limited liability companies,  cooperatives and  foundations with established statutes
• capital increase
• all modifications to statutes
• all modifications to legal structure, such as mergers, demergers, transformations and transfers of assets
• share transfers
• the dissolution and liquidation of companies

As far as the property department is concerned, our team deals with many types of work, although limited to the Geneva canton, especially:

• disposals of property in all their forms (promise, sale, forward sale, gifting, shared ownership, exchanges)
• mortgages (creation and modification of amortisation schedules)
• the constitution, modification and cancellation of property rights (easement, usufruct, building lease)
• staged ownership and modifications to the same

Family and inheritance law_

In family law matters, our team works pre- and post-marriage (with or without liquidation of matrimonial regime):

• contracts with separation of property
• contracts with community of property
• contracts modifying the community of accrued gains
• authenticated inventories

but also:

• mandates because of incapacity

In the area of inheritance (planning and settlement), we take care of:

• drawing up holographic or public wills and inheritance agreements with formalities at the Central register of wills
• safe-keeping of holographic wills
• drawing up certificates of inheritance
• executorship of a will and acting as administrator
• estate settlement (declaration of inheritance, administrative formalities)
• sharing out the inheritance

Authentication_

Without the need for an appointment we also carry out:

• authenticating ordinary signatures or signatures before a solicitor 
• attestations of competence for companies
• certificates of power of attorney
• certified true copies
• life certificates and other solicitors' attestations

Various_

In all the above areas, we also give advice which covers tax law and private international law.

We are also available to draw up contracts of receivership.