Private Clients

Due to his interest in business and his admission to the New York Bar, Sebastian Burckhardt mainly advises international companies based in the USA and major Swiss companies and their owners on a long-term basis. These include companies in the Life Sciences, chemical and financial field. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Straumann Holding Ltd., President of the Board of Directors of Dolder AG, member of the Board of Directors of Applied Chemicals International AG as well as Amsler Tex AG and of the Foundation Board of the Deaf and Hearing-Impaired School in Riehen and is Secretary of the Board of Directors of Dreyfus Söhne & Cie AG, Banquiers in Basel. His specialization has since the beginning of his legal career in 1981 remained in the area of company successions, M&A, Private Equity as well as licensing agreements.

New York University Law School (M.C.J.)
University of Basel (Dr. iur.)

• Private Clients (Teamleader)
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Private Equity, Venture Capital, Corporate Finance
• Life Sciences, Pharma, Biotech
• Corporate and Commercial
• Restructuring and Insolvency
• Civil Law Notaries

• License Agreements
• Technology Law
• Contract Law

American Bar Association
International Bar Association
Licensing Executives Society
STEP, Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, Basel

Associate with Law Offices of S.G. Archibald (Paris) and with Davis Polk & Wardwell (1984/85)

Straumann Holding Ltd., Basel (listed at SWX)
Institut Straumann AG, Basel
Applied Chemicals AG, Basel
Amsler Tex AG, Aesch
Biotechnologie AG für Emulsan, Basel
Cell International AG, Basel
Dolder AG, Basel (president of the supervisory board)
Foot Locker Switzerland AG, Basel
P&P Private Bank AG, Basel
persona service AG, Basel
Foundation GSR School for the Deaf and Hearing-Impaired, Riehen
The Misrock Foundation, Basel

Andreas Albrecht is involved with all legal matters relating to large scale building projects. This includes the sale and purchase of property, the examination of zoning and usage questions, the preparation of investment and project contracts, the structuring of construction consortiums and the design of joint venture agreements. Andreas Albrecht also advises and assists his clients in estate, corporate, and administrative law matters. He is a member of parliament in the Canton of Basel-City, president of the Bank Council of Basler Kantonalbank and member of the Board of Directors of Bank Coop.

University of Basel (lic. iur., 1992; Dr. iur., 1998);
New York University (LL.M. with specialisation in corporate law, 1998)

• Corporate and Commercial
• Real Estate
• Health
• Private Clients
• Civil Law Notaries

• Banking and Finance
• Public Construction Law
• Corporate Governance
• Inheritance Law
• Corporate and Commercial
• Real Estate
• Private International Law
• Estate Planning
• Civil Law Notary
• Public Procedure Law
• Constitutional Law
• Law of Foundations
• Law of Associations (Swiss Verein)
• Contract and Commercial Law
• Administrative Law

Basel Bar Association
Swiss Bar Association
Swiss Notaries Association
Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP)
Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA)
Swiss Lawyers Association
Swiss Association for Protestant Church Law

Attorney at Law and Civil Law Notary (since 1998)

Rolf Auf der Maur has since the beginning of his career as an attorney in 1992 concerned himself with the legal aspects of the Internet. In this way he is able to combine his interest for new communication technologies with his legal experience in an ideal manner. His clients include leading companies from the areas of media, the entertainment industry as well as telecommunications and information technology. In addition to his activities as an attorney, Rolf Auf der Maur publishes and speaks regularly on legal questions in connection with the Internet and is also entrepreneurial. He is considered the leading expert in Switzerland for legal questions for the interfacing of telecommunications, media and IT. The Directories “Chambers and Partners” and “Legal 500” recommend him for the area TMT (“1st tier”) and for intellectual property.

University of Zurich (lic. iur., 1988; Dr. iur., 1990)
continuing education in entertainment law at the University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA (1992)

• Intellectual Property (Teamleader)
• Media and Entertainment (Teamleader)
• Information and Communication Technology (Teamleader)
• Life Sciences, Pharma, Biotech
• Energy
• Restructuring and Insolvency
• Private Clients

• Data Protection
• Intellectual Property
• Information Law
• IT Law
• Communication Law
• License Agreements
• Trademarks
• Online Law
• Law of Personality Rights
• Regulatory
• Technology Law
• Unfair Competition
• Advertising Law
• Competition Law

Vice-President of the Executive Board of simsa swiss interactive media and software association
Member of the Executive Board of the International Association of Entertainment Lawyers
Vice-Chair of the Technology Law Committee of the International Bar Association
Licensing Executives Society
Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Proprièté Intellectuelle
Forum on Communication Law
Swiss Institute for Industrial Property

Court clerk
Associate with a mid-sized law firm specialising in intellectual property matters
Associate with an international law firm in Zurich
Intellectual property department of a leading law firm in London (1994)
Partner in a mid sized law firm in Zurich
Partner at VISCHER since 2000

University of Basel (lic. iur., 1965; Dr. iur., 1968)

• Corporate and Commercial
• Real Estate
• Health
• Private Clients
• Civil Law Notaries

• Biotechnology Law
• Chemical Law
• Constitutional Law
• Environmental Law
• Administrative Law

Associate with a law firm in Geneva

Chairman of the Sophie and Karl Binding Foundation, Basel, and other charitable trusts
Trafina Private Bank Ltd., Basel, and other Swiss companies

Former member of the cantonal Parliament (President, 1984)
Former member of the constitutional Council of Basel City (President, 2001) 

University of Basel (Dr. iur. 1949);
Further studies at the Sorbonne (Paris) and in Cambridge (UK)

• Corporate and Commercial
• Private Clients

Member of the Swiss Bar Association
Basel Bar Association
Notarial Association Basel-Stadt
Swiss and Basel Chambers of Commerce
Former member of the Swiss Anti-Trust Commission and the executive committees of the Swiss and Basel Chambers of Commerce
Former chairman of the Basel Bar Association

University of St. Gallen, Business Administration (lic. oec. HSG, 1973); University of Berne (lic. iur., 1976)

• Health (Teamleader)
• Public Sector and Regulatory
• Private Clients

• Constitutional Law
• Intellectual Property
• Tax-optimized Restructuring
• Capital Markets
• Pensions Law
• Tax Law
• M&A
• Stock Exchange Law
• Tax Litigation
• Litigation
• Inheritance Law
• Contract Law
• Comparative Law
• Corporate and Commercial
• Contract and Commercial Law
• Social Insurance Law
• Liability Law
• Administrative Law

Zurich Bar Association
Swiss Bar Association
International Fiscal Association

Court Clerk; associate with a law firm specialized in Tax Law; Head of the tax and legal department at one of Switzerlands leading auditing firms

Board Member of various Swiss Corporations and of various Swiss Foundations

Christoph Löw is primarily involved in advising private clients and charitable organizations. He is a member of the Board of Directors in local and international companies. In addition his interests include private asset planning and the changing of generations in companies and their implementation. Moreover he is involved in financial accounting and governance in companies and charitable institutions.

University of Basel (lic. iur., 1965; Dr. iur., 1973)
Columbia Law School, New York (additional studies, 1968/1969)

• Corporate and Commercial
• Private Clients

• Real Estate
• Estate Planning

Basel Bar Association
Swiss Bar Association 
Union Internationale des Avocats

Associate with a law firm in Geneva

Chairman or member of the board of various Swiss companies and foundations

Christoph Niederer primarily advises companies and private individuals in the areas of international tax law and in procedural law and criminal tax law. His clients include several multinationals from various industrial sectors. He also has extensive experience in structuring company sales. In addition to his work as an attorney, Christoph Niederer lectures on a regular basis at the Academy of the Swiss Institute of Certified Accountants and Tax Consultants and for a number of years has also worked as a substitute judge at the Zurich District Court.

University of Zurich (lic. iur. 1998)
Swiss certified tax expert (2006)

• Tax (Teamleader)
• Private Clients
• Private Equity, Venture Capital, Corporate Finance
• Employment Law
• White Collar Crime

Zurich Bar Association
Swiss Bar Association
Swiss Institute of Certified Accountants and Tax Consultants
IFA, Swiss Association for tax law

Senior Manager with Deloitte Ltd., Zurich, FSI (Financial Services Industries and International Tax (October 2007 - August 2010)
Associate at VISCHER Ltd., Zurich (2007)
Associate and responsible person for taxes at Blum & Partner, Zug (2005 - 2007)
Clerk at the tax court of appeal of the Canton of Zurich (2000 -  2005)
Auditor at district court Zurich (1998 - 1999)

Nadia Tarolli Schmidt heads up the Basel office of VISCHER’s tax team. She advises companies and private individuals on all matters pertaining to Swiss tax law – both in the national and international environment and also in criminal tax law. She can draw on over ten years’ experience in topics such as restructurings, relocations and succession planning.
The know how she has gained from her previous work at the Swiss Bankers Association is regularly brought to bear in banking and finance issues and in the advice she provides to banking clients. With regard to the latter, clients particularly appreciate the experience she has with US tax aspects. Because questions about occupational pensions are often associated with tax aspects attorney Schmidt also heads up the VISCHER Occupational pension funds team, which advises both pension funds and the insured.

University of Basel (lic. iur., 1999)
Swiss certified tax expert (2008)

• Pension Funds (Teamleader)
• Tax
• Private Equity, Venture Capital, Corporate Finance
• Energy
• White Collar Crime
• Private Clients

• Social Insurance Law
• Location Planning
• Banking and Finance
• Tax-optimized Restructuring
• Capital Markets
• Tax Litigation
• Restructuring and Reorganization
• M&A
• Estate Planning

Basel Bar Association
Swiss Bar Association
Pro Iure
Camera di Commercio Italiana per la Svizzera (CCIS)
IFA (International Fiscal Association)
Swiss Institute of Certified Accountants and Tax Consultants

Secondment at Swiss Bankers Association
Secondment at an Italian company in the sections strategy / taxes
Legal secretary at the Tax Appeal Commissions of Canton Zurich
Legal internships at a law firm and court

Ulrich Vischer was head of the legal and tax department of a major international Swiss insurance company before spending twelve years as a member of the government of the canton of Basel City heading the Departement of Finance. Since then he has been advising small and medium-sized companies and private individuals on legal, financial and personal matters. His experience is also an asset to boards of directors and other management bodies of listed companies, small and medium-sized companies and public institutions.

University of Basel (lic. iur., 1974; Dr. iur., 1977)

• Private Clients
• Life Sciences, Pharma, Biotech
• Corporate and Commercial
• Real Estate

• Corporate and Commercial
• Corporate Governance
• Asset Management
• Administrative Law
• Real Estate
• Inheritance Law
• Pensions Law

Swiss Bank Corporation (1977/1978); Lawyer of the Economic Union of Basel; Head of the General Secretariat / Legal and Tax Department of the Baloise Group; Member of the Government of the Canton Basel-Stadt (Minister of Finance), 1992-2005

Chairman and Member of the Board of various Swiss companies and foundations.

Thomas Weibel advises and represents clients before state courts and arbitral tribunals. His practice focuses on complex national and transnational commercial disputes, recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments, injunctive relief, and white collar crime. Thomas Weibel publishes and lectures on a regular basis on national and international civil procedure law as well as Swiss inheritance law; moreover, he is editor in chief for civil procedure law of a periodical on Swiss case law.

University of Basel (lic. iur., 1997; Dr. iur., 2001)
University of Kent at Canterbury (LL.M. in International Commercial Law, 2004)

• Private Clients
• Litigation, Arbitration
• Restructuring and Insolvency
• White Collar Crime

Basel Bar Association
Swiss Bar Association
Pro iure
Basel Lawyers Association
European Bar Association (DACH)
Swiss Lawyers Association

Internship STG-Coopers & Lybrand Ltd (now PricewaterhouseCoopers Ltd.) Legal Department, Basel (1997-1998)
Internship F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd
Corporate Law, Basel (1998)
Court clerk at the District Court of Liestal (1999)

Cappella Nova, Basel: Vorstandsmitglied
La Cetra Barockorchester, Basel: Vorstandsmitglied

Conradin Cramer regularly assists private clients as attorney and public notary in estate and succession planning and all aspects associated therewith. A second specialty of his practice since 2007 is advising in real estate transactions and planning questions. Also Conradin Cramer has abundant experience in corporate law, namely in the comprehensive legal and notarial assistance for incorporations and changes in capital. Conradin Cramer is moreover a proven expert for bonus payments and employee participations and regularly advises employers and employees in this area.

Universities of Basel and Freiburg im Breisgau (lic. iur., 2003)
University of Basel (Dr. iur., 2006)
University of California, Berkeley (LL.M., 2011)

• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Corporate and Commercial
• Employment Law
• Real Estate
• Private Clients
• Civil Law Notaries

• Inheritance Law
• Estate Planning
• Civil Law Notary
• Real Estate
• Corporate and Commercial
• Corporate Governance
• Law of Foundations
• Law of Associations (Swiss Verein)
• Contract and Commercial Law
• Labour Law
• Equity Compensation
• Law of Personality Rights

Basel Bar Associaton
Swiss Bar Association
Swiss Lawyers Association
Pro iure

Scientific assistant to Prof. Dr. Peter Böckli (2003-2004)
Attorney at Law (since 2007), Civil Law Notary (since 2009)

Member of the Foundation Board of C. & R. Koechlin-Vischer-Stiftung, Basel

Member of the Great Council of the Canton of Basel-Stadt (Member of the Committee on Economy and Taxation)

Diana Imbach Haumüller specializes in the areas of banking and finance, compliance and prevention of white collar crime, in particular money laundering, as well as corporate and contract law. Within the scope of her dissertation Diana Imbach Haumüller dealt intensively with the theme whistle blowing in Switzerland and internationally, specifically in connection with internal control systems, and supports her clients in implementing corresponding concepts and policies. During her LL.M. studies at the University of Sidney, Australia and at the Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan, she could also intensify her knowledge on an international level. Diana Imbach Haumüller was employed for several months by a leading commercial law firm in Sydney.

University of Basel (lic. iur. 2003)
University of Sydney (LL.M. 2010)
University of Zurich (Dr. iur. 2011)

• Banking and Finance
• Corporate and Commercial
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Private Clients
• Employment Law
• White Collar Crime
• Real Estate

• Banking and Finance
• Capital Markets
• Compliance
• White Collar Crime
• Contract and Commercial Law
• Corporate and Commercial
• Labour Law
• Corporate Governance

Swiss Bar Association
Basel Bar Association
Pro Jure

Legal internship at the Civil Court of Basel-City
Legal internship in law firms in Basel and Zurich
Foreign Legal Associate with Freehills in Sydney, Australia

University of Basel (lic. iur., 1999)
University of Zurich (Dr. iur., 2004)

• Private Clients
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Corporate and Commercial
• Real Estate

Swiss Bar Association
Basel Bar Association
Basel Association of Jurists

Scientific Assistant at the University of Zurich Law Faculty (1999-2002)
Independent Work on the PhD-Project by Award of the University of Zurich (2002-2004)
Internship at a Civil Court in Ticino (2004)
Internship with a Corporate Law Firm in Basel (2004-2005)

University of Fribourg (lic. iur. 2002)

• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Corporate and Commercial
• Private Clients

Swiss Bar Association
Basel Bar Association

Legal internship at a law firm in Basel
Legal internship at the Court of Appeal in Basel
Law clerk at the Court of Appeal in Basel

Lukas Wadsack is primarily practicing in the area of tax law. He advises both companies and private individuals in the areas of national and international tax law and conducts corresponding proceedings. Moreover Lukas Wadsack is involved with optimizing the restructuring of companies for tax purposes and supports clients in the preparation of tax declarations and the determination and reporting of tax reserves. In addition he is studying to become a Swiss certified tax expert.

University of St. Gallen (M.A. HSG 2007)
University of St. Gallen (B.A. HSG 2005)

• Tax
• Pension Funds
• Private Clients

• Tax Law
• Tax Litigation
• International Tax Planning
• Tax-optimized Restructuring
• Social Insurance Law
• Pensions Law

Zurich Bar Association
Swiss Bar Association
IFA, International Fiscal Association

Legal internship at the directorate for construction of the Canton of Zug