With two Certified Specialists SBA Inheritance law, our firm offers thorough expertise and a recognized know-how in inheritance law.

In an environment in which estate settlement is ever getting more complex and international (cross border), our firm provides a wide array of personalized and global services by experienced and specialized attorneys, covering:

Estate planification

• Legal opinions in any related issue.
• Estate planning.
• Testamentary wills.
• Inheritance contracts (with our notary network).
• Patient decree (Living will).
• Advance care directive (Lasting powers of attorney in case of loss of the capacity to consent).
• Amendement to nuptial (marital) property contracts (with our notary network).
• Succession planning for family companies and SMEs.
• Adult and Child protection (Deputyship for personal care, asset management, representation).
• Wealth/assets preservation/protection.
• Trusts and foundations.
• Tax issues (with our tax adviser network).

Official Mandate

• Official estate administration.
• Missions of representative of the heirs.
• Missions of official liquidator.
• Expert opinions in the context of judicial proceedings.
• Executor’s mission.
• Deputyship with powers of representation in estate related matter.
• Estate transmission.
• Assistance in all estate transmission operations (notably before the Justice of the Peace).
• Estate litigation, arbitration and mediation.
• Amiable or contentious estate liquidation.
• Provisional protective measures.
• Estate division claim.
• Annulment (declaration of invallidity) of last wills claim.
• Abatement claim (reconstitution of the legal portion).
• Recovery of inheritance claim.
• Drafting and enforcement of estate partition agreements (contract of division).
• Enforcement of foreign estate judicial decisions.

We can assist you in French, German (and Swiss German), Italian and English.

The lawyers active in this area are :

• Peter Schaufelberger, Certified Specialist SBA inheritance law
• David Regamey, Certified Specialist SBA inheritance law
• François Chaudet
• Guy Mustaki
• Jérôme Guex
• Christophe Perrin