Ms Susanne Schreiber > Bär & Karrer Ltd. > Zurich, Switzerland > Lawyer Profile

Ms Susanne Schreiber

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Work Department

Tax | Mergers & Acquisitions | Reorganization & Insolvency | Financing | Real Estate | Listed Companies | Banking & Insurance | Startup Desk

Position

Susanne Schreiber is a partner at Bär & Karrer AG and co-heads the tax department.

Susanne Schreiber has extensive experience in international corporate tax matters, in particular in domestic and cross-border M&A transactions and reorganizations. She advises on tax aspects of financing, acquisition structuring as well as capital market transactions and management incentive schemes.

She frequently works on vendor or buy-side transactions, both for private equity clients, multinationals or individuals, covering due diligence, pre-deal structuring as well as carve-outs and post-merger integration from a tax perspective.

Furthermore, Susanne Schreiber regularly supports Swiss multinationals in their tax planning work, including tax advice on restructurings, financing and tax litigation work.

Susanne Schreiber is an attorney-at-law and tax advisor as well as a Swiss certified tax expert. Before joining Bär & Karrer she worked for an international law firm in Germany and for one of the big four companies in Zurich where she last headed the Swiss M&A tax department.

She regularly speaks on tax-related topics in the area of M&A / corporate tax law and publishes specialist articles as well as commentaries in the field of taxes. Susanne Schreiber is an Officer of the IBA Taxes Committee, a member of the Exam Commission for Swiss Certified Tax Experts, the tax chapter of the Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce, the International Fiscal Association and EXPERTsuisse tax commission. Susanne Schreiber won the award “Rising star: Tax” at the IFLR Europe Women in Business Law Awards 2016 and is listed as a Woman-in-Tax Leader in the International Tax Review. Legal 500 listed her as Leading Individual in the category Tax Switzerland. She has recently been awarded for outstanding quality client service with the Client Choice Award 2020 for Corporate Tax in Switzerland.

Career

• Partner of Bär & Karrer (since 2015)
• Partner, Head M&A Tax of a Big Four Firm (2013)
• Manager, Senior Manager, Director of a Big Four Firm in Switzerland (2007, 2008, 2011)
• German Tax Advisor (2006)
• Manager M&A Tax Services of a Big Four Firm in Germany (2006)
• Associate of an international law firm in Germany (2002)

Languages

German, English

Memberships

• Zurich Bar Association (ZAV)
• Member of the Tax Expert Exam Commission
• Member of the International Fiscal Association Swiss Branch (IFA Switzerland)
• Member of the Tax Chapter of the Swiss American Chamber of Commerce
• Member of EXPERTsuisse

Education

• Certified Swiss Tax Expert (2010)
• Admitted to the Munich Bar (2001)
• Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich: Law Degree (1999)