Private Clients
Private Client has historically always been at the core of our firm’s services and attention since the firm’s early days in 1882. We are proud to assist families over generations and to continuously acquire the trust of new clients, by adapting to their evolving needs and expectations as well as to the changing cross-border environment.
Our specialized and intergenerational Private Client team provides complete legal and tax advice to individuals and their families in Switzerland and around the world on all aspects relevant to their personal and financial affairs.
The wide range of services offered by MLL Legal includes estate planning and inheritance litigation, family law advise and matrimonial agreements, as well as divorces most often with a very strong international component. We also support and assist our clients in their domiciliation in Switzerland in particular the tax and immigration aspects and for the acquisition of real estate.
We also assist entrepreneurs and family offices in the transfer of family businesses as well as in all corporate and contractual issues, dispute resolution and complex asset structuring and restructuring.
We advise our clients in art law and in their philanthropic ventures (creation, regulatory and administrative aspects). Sitting on the board of several foundations and charitable associations in Switzerland, we have an extended and comprehensive knowledge of this sector.
Our clients appreciate our pragmatic, creative and solution-oriented advice. Beyond our several working languages (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, Greek, Arabic and Swedish), our multicultural mindset and empathic approach allows us to understand the issues of our clients and establish long term relations based on ongoing and mutual trust and respect.
Thanks to our large network of international private client lawyers, we efficiently and successfully collaborate with skilled advisors worldwide to offer the best sophisticated services to our Private Client with the right degree or emotional intelligence to ensure the advises provided is not just a legal technical answer.
MLL Meyerlustenberger Lachenal Froriep “are truly a go-to firm for private clients,” according to sources. It has a strong group of private client lawyers advising clients on all manner of legal and tax issues, including estate planning, asset structuring, family governance and philanthropy
Publications
Relocation to Switzerland: The Benefits of Residence in the Alpine Country
The Legal 500 - Focus On, May 2023- EN
Transmission d’entreprise: faciliter le passage entre les générations
Fédération des Entreprises Romandes, 01/2023- FR
Nouveau droit des successions en vigueur dès le 1er janvier 2023 : mesures immédiates
MLL-News, 20 Octobre 2022- FR
New inheritance law in force from 1 January 2023 – immediate actions
MLL-News, 20 October 2022- EN
Firm News
MLL Legal ranked twice Band 1 in the Chambers High Net Worth Directory 2024
Private Client Global Elite Directory 2024
40 MLL Legal lawyers recognised for Best Lawyers® 2024 award
Patricia Guerra | Moderator | Private Client Exchange Switzerland 2023
New Partner Announcement: Welcome to Arnaud Martin and Marc Schamaun
News Portal
New International Succession Law: one step forward, one step back – Effective as of 1 January 2025
The new Article 91(1) of the Private International Law Act partially harmonises Swiss legislation with European law by allowing Swiss nationals with multiple nationalities to elect a foreign national law for their succession. This change offers greater flexibility, although it is still limited by the requirement to comply with Swiss forced heirship provisions.
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Inheritance advance, inter vivos gift, sale at a preferential price – what applies in the event of death?
Anyone planning their estate or transferring assets to family members during their lifetime or intending to do so in the future can, on the one hand, make dispositions and division provisions regarding their estate by testamentary disposition, i.e. by means of a last will or an inheritance contract.
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Act on the Transparency of Legal Entities
On 22 May 2024 the Federal Council adopted the dispatch on the new Transparency Act for Legal Entities to be submitted to the Swiss parliament. The bill introduces a new federal register of beneficial owners of legal entities as well as new due diligence duties for risky activities in the legal profession, following the purpose of enhancing effectiveness of the Swiss framework for combating money laundering and terrorist financing. Furthermore, the bill aims compliance with international standards set by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).
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New Developments in Swiss Foundation Law
On 1 January 2024, various amendments to Swiss foundation law will come into force. New provisions will be introduced in the following areas:
- Complaint on supervisory matters regulated by law (Art. 84 para. 3 Swiss Civil Code, hereinafter “CC”);
- Extension of the founder’s rights through a reservation of the right to amend the organization (Art. 86a CC);
- Simplification of minor amendments to the foundation’s deed (Art. 86b CC);
- Form applicable to amendments of the deeds (Art. 86c CC).
New Inheritance Law in Force From 1 January 2023 – Immediate Actions
With the entry into force of the inheritance law reform on 1 January 2023, Switzerland is modernising an important part of its more than 100-year-old legislation. The main changes inherent in the new inheritance law[1] are summarised in our Newsletter of 1 June 2021.
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