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Corporate & Business Law Services

Your trusted partner for customized corporate and business law solutions.

In  today’s complex and rapidly evolving legal environment, you expect more than sound legal advice. You are looking for a trusted advisor who provides commercially inspiring ideas and helps you meet your global legal challenges. We aspire to be your corporate law firm of choice thanks to our global reach and a multidisciplinary approach that leverages digital capabilities.

We advise public and private companies, including SMEs and family-owned businesses, on all aspects of corporate, encompassing Swiss business lawcorporate law and governance. Our corporate law practice ranges from the incorporation of companies domiciled in Switzerland to advising on capital increases and providing corporate housekeeping, reorganization of companies through mergers, spin-offs, etc., and their liquidation. Our aim is to optimize corporate governance and facilitate operational excellence tailored to your needs 

Working closely with our colleagues at KPMG AG, our multidisciplinary approach distinguishes us from our competition. This collaboration enables us to seamlessly integrate tax and audit services with our legal expertise to provide comprehensive solutions to your legal challenges.

On the basis of the objectives identified together with you, we develop tailor-made, practice-oriented solutions for your corporate law issues.

We support you by taking on demanding and extensive projects with specialists who bring not only legal but also economic and technical know-how.

Dominique Gottret

Partner, Attorney-at-Law, LL.M., Head Corporate & Business Law / Legal Deal Advisory

KPMG Switzerland

Philippe Goetz

Director, Attorney-at-Law

KPMG Switzerland

Why KPMG services?

KPMG’s legal professionals work with subject matter experts provide our clients with tailored and insightful legal advice.

  1. Global network of business lawyers

    KPMG Law is the most established, globally connected legal services platform - currently spanning 81 jurisdictions, with more than 2,750 lawyers who have the in-depth knowledge and experience you need to advise you on domestic and international law and to navigate the opportunities and challenges of cross-border commerce, trade, investment and managing global value chains in an increasingly complex world.

  1. Innovative, connected, digital

    Our ambition is to provide you with innovative and integrated solutions by combining our global platform, our specialized legal expertise, the power of the broader KPMG organization, access to market-leading business and legal technology, and our global experience in structuring and managing innovative delivery models.

  1. Multidisciplinary approach

    We work closely with our KPMG AG colleagues. This multidisciplinary approach sets us apart from the competition.  It enables us to understand the mindset and services of tax and auditg and to integrate them with our legal consulting services.

  1. Proactive

    We anticipate your needs, address them appropriately and seek to avoid potential disputes and mitigate risk through expert advice at every stage of your project.

Understanding client struggles & addressing key pain points

Corporate Law

Our integrated and multidisciplinary offering, led by experienced Corporate law attorneys, covers day-to-day matters as well as time-sensitive, event-driven challenges. Drawing on our combined skills and experience, we combine the latest best practices in business with pragmatic analysis to help our clients solve a wide range of issues. We provide tailored advice at every stage of a company’s lifecycle, bringing together colleagues from different jurisdictions and practices,

Commercial Law

KPMG Law lawyers, specializing in corporate law, business law, and taxation, provide leading expert advice on all aspects of commercial law. Our transdisciplinary approach ensures that our clientsreceive comprehensive advice on contentious and non-contentious general commercial law matters, such as domestic and cross-border supply, distribution and cooperation agreements, domestic and cross-border research and development, or cash pooling agreements.

Real Estate

KPMG Law’s Real Estate team is one of the firm’s leading corporate real estate and real estate finance practices. We provide our domestic and international clients with comprehensive, tailored legal advice on all aspects of real estate law, drawing on our expertise and in-depth knowledge of the market.

Restructuring & Financing

Insolvency is a last resort. We act as problem-solvers for companies, their shareholders and their creditors. Our goal is to use restructuring to create new opportunities. 

We advise on restructuring projects with the aim of finding innovative solutions that are beneficial to all parties involved, and in some cases, are able to avoid insolvency proceedings. In addition, we are involved in national and international foreclosure proceedings and act as liquidators.

Capital Markets

We advise issuers, shareholders and investors, and financial institutions on all types of capital markets transactions, including equity, equity-linked and debt capital markets. Together with our KPMG colleagues, we are at the forefront of developments such as ESG, green and sustainability-linked bonds. We also provide ongoing advice to listed companies on reporting and disclosure requirements, in particular ad hoc publicity.

Partnering for success: submit your interests & open questions

We look forward to your requests and will be happy to answer open questions you may have. 

Meet our experts

Dominique Gottret

Partner, Attorney-at-Law, LL.M., Head Corporate & Business Law / Legal Deal Advisory

KPMG Switzerland

Philippe Goetz

Director, Attorney-at-Law

KPMG Switzerland