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Othmar Aeschi, Attorney-at-Law and Notary Public, lic.iur.HSG, LL.M. (Columbia, N.Y.)

The Law Firm

Othmar Aeschi has extensive experience as a lawyer and notary public with leading Swiss business law firms as well as head of the commercial register. He specializes in commercial and corporate law, commercial register law, contract law and as a notary public in notarial law. He also advises private individuals and companies comprehensively with in-depth specialist knowledge in inheritance law, foundation law, real estate law, labor law, tenancy law, immigration law as well as company name and trademark law.

The Law Firm

Othmar Aeschi has extensive experience as a lawyer and notary public with leading Swiss business law firms as well as head of the commercial register. He specializes in commercial and corporate law, commercial register law, contract law and as a notary public in notarial law. He also advises private individuals and companies comprehensively with in-depth specialist knowledge in inheritance law, foundation law, real estate law, labor law, tenancy law, immigration law as well as company name and trademark law.

Commercial and corporate law

  • Incorporations of all legal forms (including contributions in kind and (intended) acquisitions in kind), establishments of subsidiaries and branches
  • Amendments to the articles of association (capital increases or reductions, capital cuts, company name changes, changes of company purposes, changes of offices, share conversions and creation of new share categories, subsequent payments under subscription etc.)
  • Restructurings and transactions (including mergers, conversions into other legal forms, divisions or asset transfers)
  • National and international relocations
  • Dissolutions, liquidations and deletions
  • Shareholder resolutions
  • Independent proxy holder
  • Corporate housekeeping (including share registers and lists of beneficial owners)
  • Advice and legal support for startups and SMEs
  • Internal structuring of companies (including organizational regulations, shareholder agreements or partner agreements, cooperation agreements or consortium agreements)
  • Share purchase agreements and comprehensive legal support in the implementation of a company acquisition or sale as well as the acquisition or sale of specific business parts
  • Company succession plans
  • Corporate liability of the board of directors and management
  • Compliance
  • Reorganizations and restructurings
  • Any contractual aspects, including purchase agreements, terms and conditions, rental agreements, cooperation agreements, outsourcing, distribution agreements, etc.
  • Legal advice on the stock corporation law, the limited liability company law, the cooperative law, the association law and on the foundation law
  • Company name law

Commercial register law

  • Advice, preparation and public notarization of any commercial register transaction (incorporations, amendments of the articles of association, changes of offices, liquidations, assignments of shares or changes of the registered persons, functions and signatories, etc.)
  • Extensive legal advice, support and public notarization of corporate restructurings

Contract law

  • Legal revision, drafting and review of any type of contract
  • Mandate agreements and contracts for services
  • Purchase agreements, assignment agreements, brokerage agreements, agency agreements, leasing agreements, gift and loan agreements
  • License agreements
  • Framework agreements, escrow agreements, joint venture agreements, sales agreements, investment agreements, sponsoring and franchise agreements as well as any innominate contracts
  • Agreements related to venture capital and private equity financing
  • Letter of Intent, Memorandum of Understanding, confidentiality statements, etc.
  • Group loan finance agreements
  • IT and software contracts
  • Employment law agreements
  • Tenancy law agreements

Inheritance law

  • Last wills (testamentary dispositions) and inheritance agreements (respectively prenuptial and inheritance agreements)
  • Estate settlements and inheritance divisions
  • Execution of last wills
  • Advance directives (“Vorsorgeaufträge”) and living wills (“Patientenverfügungen”)
  • Succession and estate planning

Foundation law

  • Establishment of foundations (including family foundations)
  • Amendments to deeds of foundations

Employment law

  • Drafting of employment agreements (including individual contracts for senior management)
  • Termination of employment relationships (e.g. termination, leave of absence, termination agreement, non-competition clause, mass layoffs, certificate of employment)
  • Employment law issues in connection with mergers and restructurings of companies or in the event of a transfer of assets (resp. bulk transfer)
  • Employee participation plans, bonus plans
  • Personnel regulations, allowance regulations
  • Body leasing

Real estate law

  • Preparation of real estate purchase agreements, establishment of condominium ownerships and other property law contracts.
  • Co-ownership (“Miteigentum”) and joint ownership (“Gesamteigentum”)
  • Easements (building rights, rights of way, usufruct, rights of residence etc.)
  • Pre-emptive rights, purchase and repurchase rights
  • Contract for services, planning and engineering agreements
  • Liens (including statutory mortgage of workmen and contractors)

Immigration law

  • Residence and work permits for foreigners

Company name and trademark law

  • Legal advice and research in company name and trademark law
  • Trademark applications

Notarial and legalization law

  • Company law notarizations
  • Prenuptial and inheritance agreements as well as last wills (testamentary dispositions)
  • Foundation law notarizations
  • Pledge agreements
  • Advance directives (“Vorsorgeaufträge”) and living wills (“Patientenverfügungen”)
  • Legalizations