• Advising with a view to optimising the payment of taxes and duties
• Advising and representing clients in tax procedures and processes, in particular before the tax authorities
• Advising and representing clients in matters of commercial law, in particular
  - restructuring enterprises, businesses and estates (mergers, splittings and reorganisations),
  - employee participation,
  - succession regulation,
  - sale and purchase of enterprises and businesses,
  - founding enterprises and businesses,
  - drawing up contracts
  - such as labour law, tenancy law, marriage property and inheritance law, property and liability law.
  
• Representing clients in commercial law disputes settled in and out of court (claim and inheritance disputes, labour and tenancy disputes, etc.)
• Member of the Board of Directors and Board of Trustees

Avocational Fields of Activity

• Member of various commissions of the Civic Community of Bern (esp. the Finance Commission)
• Auditor for the Lake Thun Yacht Club
• Co-author of the Practitioner’s Commentary on Tax Law in the Canton of Bern
• Member of various associations (Lake Thun Yacht Club, Altherr der Zofingia, Reismusketen der Stadt Bern, etc.)

Education

• Studied law at the University of Bern, with internship at the Tax Appeal Commission, the District Court and Government Offices in Saanen, and in a medium-sized Bernese law firm (1990-1996)
• Admitted to the Bar in 1996
• Attended the Tax Academy part-time while working for a large trust corporation (1997-2000)
• Gained the Federal Swiss Tax Expert Diploma (2000)
• Worked in a medium-sized Bernese law firm (2001-2002)
• Partner as attorney-at-law (since 2002)

Publications (a selection)
A Practioner’s Commentary on Bernese Tax Law
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Tax Assessment of Participation in PMEs, KMU-Magazin Nr. 5, June 2009
Link (PDF, 276 kb)