Domain of activities
Commercial law
In the commercial field, we follow the entire life of a company throughout Switzerland:
- Incorporation of public limited companies, limited liability companies, cooperatives and foundations including the establishment of articles of association
- Capital increase and reduction
- All changes of status
- All changes in legal structure, such as mergers, demergers, transformations and transfers of assets and liabilities
- Transfers of shares
- Relocation of headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland and abroad
- Drawing up of all minutes of meetings (authentic or not)
- Dissolution and liquidation of companies
Real estate law
We handle all types of operations, however limited to the canton of Geneva :
- Real estate disposals and acquisitions in all their forms (promise, sale, forward sale, donation, sharing, exchange, transfer)
- Mortgage transactions (creation and modification of mortgage schedules in particular)
- Constitutions, modifications and cancellation of real rights (easement, usufruct, right of superficies)
- Ownership by floors and their modifications
- Division and assembly of parcels (transfer tables)
- Establishment of Administration and Use Regulations (PPE) and Use and Administration Regulations (co-ownership)
- Pacts of emption, pre-emption and réméré
- Approaches to the various administrations (IBGI, LDTR, CFA, LFAIE, etc…)
Family law
Our team takes care before and after marriage (with or without plan liquidation) of the:
- Contracts of separation of property
- Contracts of community of property
- Contracts modifying the interest in the assets
- Cohabitation contracts
- Authentic inventories
- Liquidation of matrimonial regime
- Mandates for incapacity
- Advance directives
- Wills and inheritance pacts
- Gifts
Inheritance law
In the estate planning and liquidation process, we take care of:
- Drawing up holographic or public wills and inheritance agreements, with formalities at the Swiss Register of Wills
- Conservation of holographic wills
- Notification of dispositions for cause of death after death
- Issuance of certificates of heirs and attestations of entitlement
- Execution of wills and ex-officio administration
- Establishment of civil or fiscal inventory
- Estate liquidation (declaration of inheritance, administrative formalities)
- Estate sharing
- Inventory profit
- Wealth and estate planning advice
- Transfer after death to the Land Registry
- Search for heirs, assets and testamentary dispositions
Authentification
We also provide :
- Legalizations of simple signatures or before a notary public
- Certificates of authority for companies
- Patent powers of attorney
- Certified copies
- Life certificates and other notarial attestations
- Hague Apostille for Abroad
Divers
In all the above-mentionned areas, we also provide advice that extends to tax law and private international law.
We also issue bonds, loan agreements and power attorneys.