Mr Christoph Suter > Bär & Karrer Ltd. > Zurich, Switzerland > Lawyer Profile
Bär & Karrer Ltd. Offices
BRANDSCHENKESTRASSE 90
8027 ZÜRICH
Switzerland
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Mr Christoph Suter
Work Department
Tax | Banking & Insurance | Capital Markets | Fintech | Funds, Financial Products & Asset Management | Mergers & Acquisitions | Private Clients | Startup Desk
Position
Christoph Suter heads Bär & Karrer’s tax team in Geneva. He advises corporate and private clients in complex national and international tax matters.
Christoph Suter has broad experience in corporate taxation, in particular M&A, reorganizations, corporate finance, national and international tax planning as well as tax litigation work. He is also an expert in tax topics of the banking and asset management industry, such as the taxation of financial instruments.
Christoph Suter is a frequent lecturer at national and international tax conferences and publishes articles on relevant taxation topics.
Career
- Partner at Bär & Karrer (since 2017)
- Senior Manager (2010), Partner (2013), Head Financial Services Tax Swiss Romande at a Big Four Firm (until 2017)
- Head of Tax of an International Reinsurance Company (2009-2010)
- Manager Transfer Pricing of a Big Four Firm (2008-2009)
- Head of Tax of an International Media Company (2004-2008)
- Manager of a Big Four Firm in Switzerland (2001-2004)
Languages
German, English, French
Memberships
- Member of the Ordre Romand des Experts Fiscaux Diplomés (OREF)
- Member of the International Fiscal Association Swiss Branch (IFA Switzerland)
Education
- Swiss Certified Tax Expert (2004)
- Universities of Basel and Lausanne: Law Degree (2001)
Lawyer Rankings
Switzerland > Leading firms: French-speaking Switzerland
Bär & Karrer Ltd.‘s Geneva office has particular expertise in arbitration, banking and insurance, corporate and M&A, employment, litigation, private clients, tax, internal investigations, and white-collar criminal law. Aurélie Conrad Hari, who heads the Geneva office, also leads the civil litigation practice. Other notable names in the team are Saverio Lembo and Andrew Garbarski, who co-head the white-collar criminal law practice, Christoph Suter, who heads the tax team, Pierre-Yves Gunter, co-head of the international arbitration team, Cédric Chapuis, who leads the financial services team, and Frédéric Bétrisey, who has extensive experience of banking and finance.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance: Zurich
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution: arbitration
- Dispute resolution: litigation
- Employment
- Fintech
- Healthcare and life sciences
- Insurance
- Leading firms: German-speaking Switzerland
- Leading firms: Italian-speaking Switzerland
- Private client
- Public law
- Real estate and construction
- Regulatory, compliance and investigations
- Sports law
- Tax