Tax
Daniel Bader
Daniel Bader provides national and international tax, social security and legal advice to individuals and corporate clients.
He comprehensively advises private clients, executives and entrepreneurs in tax and legal-related questions including successions planning, compensation plans and private wealth structures.
Daniel Bader develops solutions, particularly related to cross-border structuring and to corporate and private relocations from and to Switzerland. He assists clients in questions regarding income and wealth tax, estate and gift taxes, real estate tax and social security.
Daniel Bader is a frequent speaker at national and international tax and private clients conferences, and acts as board member of Family Offices. He is president of the Swiss branch of the International Fiscal Association IFA. He is listed as a leading lawyer by Chambers, Legal 500 and Citywealth. Furthermore, Who's Who Legal 2018 recognizes him as expert in the practice areas "Private Client" and "Corporate Tax".
Susanne Schreiber
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.
Matthias Bizzarro
Matthias Bizzarro is a certified tax expert and a lecturer in tax law at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI). Matthias Bizzarro's practice focuses on all aspects of domestic and international corporate tax law and tax planning for Swiss and foreign private clients.
He also advises in matters of general contract law, corporate and commercial law, regularly providing advice on corporate transactions (including start-up financing rounds).
Matthias Bizzarro is also experienced in advising private clients in civil legal matters, with a focus on estate and wealth planning, as well as relocations to Switzerland.
Finally, in the past ten years he has gathered broad experience in representing corporate clients and individuals in front of Cantonal and federal courts, in particular in tax and administrative cases.
He regularly speaks and publishes articles on topics within his practice areas.
Ruth Bloch-Riemer
Ruth Bloch-Riemer’s practice focuses on domestic and international tax law.
She regularly advises Swiss and foreign high net worth individuals in all taxation matters. In particular, she supports clients with regard to wealth and succession planning, the structuring of charitable contributions, questions in the context of the taxation of art and artists, and questions within the field of the domestic and international structuring and coordination of their pension and social security.
Furthermore, Ruth Bloch-Riemer is advising domestic and international companies and managers in all taxation and social security matters particularly in the context of compensation, i. a. within employee participation schemes, and in the development and implementation of complex domestic and cross-border pension solutions.
In her areas of practice, Ruth Bloch-Riemer supports clients both in the context of compliance work and non-contentious procedures as well as in the context of litigation vis-à-vis domestic administrative and judicial authorities.
Ruth Bloch-Riemer regularly publishes and speaks at conferences on tax and social security matters. She serves as an expert for the oral Swiss tax expert examinations.
Raoul Stocker
Raoul Stocker has broad experience in all taxation matters and advises both corporations and individuals. His focus lies on cross-border structuring of corporate transactions and businesses as well as transfer pricing. He is specifically experienced in international tax litigation such as mutual agreement procedures and advanced pricing agreements.
Raoul is honorable professor for tax law at the University of St. Gallen and director at the Institute for Financial Law and Economics (IFF) at the University of St.Gallen.
Hanna Brozzo
Hanna Brozzo is a lawyer and tax expert and Partner in Bär & Karrer’s tax team. With more than 15 years of work experience, Hanna Brozzo has specialized in domestic and international tax matters for Swiss and foreign private clients. Her tax practice includes, in particular, wealth and estate planning (including trusts and family foundations), business succession, employment (including social security), relocations and tax residency questions. She further advises and represents charitable foundations regarding tax-exemptions and supports clients in all matters relating to tax-related questions around real estate (private and commercial) and tax compliance. With broad litigation experience, both on the side of a court and as a party representative, Hanna Brozzo regularly represents clients in tax matters before Swiss authorities and courts
Hanna Brozzo regularly publishes and speaks at domestic and international conferences on tax matters. She has been awarded Silver as "Lawyer of the Year – IFC" at the Citywealth Future Leaders Award in November 2024.
Cyrill Diefenbacher
Cyrill Diefenbacher has broad experience in national and international corporate tax matters.
He advises clients on tax-related questions in the area of M&A transactions / restructurings / financing, but also has broad experience in advising clients in the area of tax compliance. He frequently works on M&A transactions (buy-side or sell-side advice over all stages of the transaction, advice on management incentive schemes), restructurings and reorganizations and provides advice on various national or international corporate tax matters. His area of expertise includes Swiss VAT.
Cyrill Diefenbacher regularly speaks in the area of M&A tax / corporate tax law and publishes specialist articles in the field of taxes. He is a lecturer at the EXPERTsuisse Swiss Certified Tax Expert education program and regularly speaks at different tax seminars.
Paolo Bottini
Paolo Bottini has broad experience in advising large multinational corporations on tax and legal matters, particularly in establishing and moving international and regional headquarters in and out of Switzerland.
Furthermore, he is very experienced in coordinating legal and tax advice in M&A projects, in particular due diligence procedures and the preparation of contractual documentation. He also regularly assists private clients in legal and tax matters.
Paolo Bottini is a Board member of Helsinn Holding SA, a privately held pharmaceutical company and worldwide leader in supportive cancer care products, where he serves as chairman of the audit committee.
Martin Leu
Martin Leu' practice focuses on all aspects of national and international corporate tax law for Swiss and foreign clients.
He advises clients on tax-related questions in the area of M&A transactions / restructurings but also has broad experience in advising clients in the area of tax compliance.
Daniel U. Lehmann
Daniel U. Lehmann has broad experience in Corporate taxation, in particular M&A, Corporate reorganizations and restructurings, Corporate Finance (including capital market transactions, ICOs), collective investment schemes, international tax planning, tax litigation, real estate transactions. Advising entrepreneurs and private clients on complex national and international tax planning. Speaker at national and international conferences.
Christoph Suter
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.
Team Services
Corporate and individual taxpayers face increasing complexity in their tax matters. Advice that makes a difference goes beyond tax law and reflects the underlying, individual circumstances of each client.
We assist our clients in structuring their business and managing their private wealth while remaining mindful of tax implications. We offer comprehensive, practical and efficient solutions and guidance on all matters of tax law.
Our clients range from individuals and family businesses to multinational companies from various sectors.
Practical and strategic advice
We work closely together with our colleagues from other areas of law to offer our clients comprehensive solutions. We also have close ties with experts in other jurisdictions and an excellent working relationship with Swiss tax and social security authorities. This enables us to offer strategic and pragmatic tax advice on all issues our clients face in their private and professional environment, their day to day business as well as in respect of specific transactions.
General areas of the Bär & Karrer tax and social security practice include:
- Business and transaction structuring
- Corporate and individual tax planning
- Family wealth and estate planning
- Tax litigation and compliance
- Transfer pricing
- Double taxation and other international tax issues
- Financial products
- Executive compensation, employee incentives and participation plans
- Indirect taxes, incl. VAT
- Assistance with social security audits