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Schellenberg Wittmer Ltd Offices

Schellenberg Wittmer Ltd
5bis, rue des Alpes
P.O. Box 2088
1211 Geneva 1
Switzerland
Visit website +41 22 707 8000 +41 22 707 8001

Ms Danielle Hostettler

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+41 22 707 8000 danielle.hostettler@swlegal.ch View profile

Work Department

Geneva / Taxation

Position

Danielle Hostettler is a Counsel in our Taxation Group in Geneva. Danielle’s practice involves all aspects of Swiss and international tax law for both private and institutional clients.

Experience:

  • Advising clients on executive compensation, national and international tax planning, stock options plans taxation and valuation of company’s shares, as well as lump sum taxation
  • Providing tax advice to private clients becoming Swiss residents
  • Advising on tax compliance issues for employees of a large US-based multinational setting up a subsidiary in Switzerland
  • Negotiating with the Swiss Tax Authorities on taxation of benefits deriving from shares and stock options plans
  • Advising a US non-governmental association on Swiss the tax exemption procedures
  • Advising private clients on lump sum taxation issues
  • Advising Swiss and non-Swiss residents on tax regularization and compliance matters

Career

2013 – Counsel at Schellenberg Wittmer

2005 – Associate at Schellenberg Wittmer

1990 – Associate in a leading tax firm in Geneva

Languages

  • English
  • French

Education

2006 – Postgraduate degree in Management, Organization and Communication, Neuchâtel Management School

1990 – Bar Admission in Switzerland

1987 – lic. iur., University of Geneva

Lawyer Rankings

Switzerland > Tax

Schellenberg Wittmer Ltd is skilled in an array of contentious and non-contentious matters, with extensive experience working with tax authorities, at both the federal and cantonal levels. Jean-Frédéric Maraia, who advises individual and corporate clients on all tax matters both at the domestic and international level, and Michael Nordin, whose focus is transactions such as mergers and acquisitions, reorganisations, and restructurings, head the Geneva and Zurich teams, respectively. Pietro Sansonetti has skill in negotiating with tax authorities on delicate and high-value matters. Danielle Hostettler‘s key focus is on private client taxation. At the associate level, Roland Wild and Arthur Magnin are key names.

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