Kellerhals Carrard

With over 350 professionals (including partners, employed lawyers, legal advisors, tax advisors, and notaries) and a total of more than 560 employees, the firm, which was founded in 1885, has offices in Basel, Bern, Geneva, Lausanne/Sion, Lugano, and Zurich, as well as offices in Binningen and Shanghai, is one of the largest and most traditional law firms in Switzerland.

Kellerhals Carrard operates throughout Switzerland and is very well established locally, advising clients both at home and abroad.

We advise and represent companies and entrepreneurs from all industries and economic sectors, the public sector, national and international organizations, and private individuals before all courts and authorities in Switzerland and abroad in almost all areas of law. Our main areas of practice are:

• Corporate and company law, external legal department

• Litigation, arbitration, and insolvency law

• M&A and capital markets law

• Regulatory financial market law, financial services, collective investments, leasing, insurance

• IT/IP, distribution, competition, and antitrust law

• International sports law

• Tax

• Public law

• Labor and social security law

• Commercial criminal law and international legal assistance / compliance

• Family and inheritance law for private clients

• Notary

We place a special focus on the financial services, life sciences, IMT (information, technology, media), sports and entertainment, energy and real estate/construction, and retail sectors.

Our values

Entrepreneurial
We understand your needs and speak the same language, because we are also entrepreneurs and know what is important to you thanks to our membership in management committees of companies, foundations, organizations, and associations. We view the law as a tool to secure and increase your economic success—with pragmatic and innovative solutions.

Personal and loyal
Personal contact and mutual loyalty are not empty phrases for us. That is why we have a comparatively large number of partners in relation to the number of lawyers employed and focus on personal client care by our partners – often as a one-stop shop and sparring partner over years and decades.

Team-oriented
We lawyers are used to working closely with each other and with you. Thanks to our size and project experience, we can put together teams of specialists within a very short time, deploy them efficiently, and manage them appropriately. We determine the strategy and tactics in complex processes, transactions, or negotiations together, benefiting from our international background and understanding of other cultures.

Communicative
We communicate openly and directly. We only offer services that we can handle efficiently and well. We respond to your questions quickly and without unnecessary technical jargon.

 

• Other languages available

Our attorneys:

• Bettina Achermann

• Dr. Dario Ammann

• Dr. Marco Balmelli

• Christine Bassanello

• Susanna Baumgartner Morin

• Dr. Thomas Bauer

• Jan Bläuer

• Dr. Lukas Bopp

• Manuela Brenneis-Hobi

• Dr. Emanuel Dettwiler

• Philipp d'Hondt

• Hannah Faber

• Stefan Fasel

• Dr. Fabrizio Gabrielli

• Danijel Gajic

• Milena Grob

• Prof. Dr. Pascal Grolimund

• Dr. Eliane Haas

• Sidney Haberthür

• Dr. Marc Hanslin

• Dr. Bernd Hauck

• Thomas Hentz

• Dr. Melanie Huber

• Estelle Keller Leuthardt

• Kim Lindner

• Dr. Kevin MacCabe

• Laura Manz

• Livio Marelli

• Dr. Nicolas Mosimann

• Dr. Olivier Mosimann

• Sebastian Müller

• Dany Manuela Nüssler

• Jon Oetiker

• Andrea Schmutz

• Sarah Schneider

• Marco Sibold

• Larissa Simeon

• Irena Situm

• Prof. Dr. Daniel Staehelin

• Adrienne Strahm

• Dr. Dominik Tschudi