PRACTICES AREAS
Corporate and commercial law
Perréard de Boccard offers specialized advice in corporate and commercial national and cross-border law, including commodity trading.
It also delivers legal opinions and consultation on the rights and duties of corporate directors and managers. Finally, it also provides assistance on any issues related to shareholders’ rights.
Philippe de Boccard
Antoine Kohler
Laurent Panchaud
Sébastien Desfayes
Lucien Feniello
Banking law and capital markets
Advice on banking and capital markets law is one of Perréard de Boccard’s major activities. It provides assistance to banks and finance companies on any regulatory issues related to application for FINMA authorization and compliance with FINMA’s supervision.
It advises individuals and companies on raising finance.
It assists companies on any regulatory issues related to securities listing, in particular IPOs, share capital increases, corporate governance and threshold notification.
Perréard de Boccard also provides assistance on bank disputes, in particular on matters related to liability within the framework of wealth management.
Philippe de Boccard
Antoine Kohler
Sébastien Desfayes
Lucien Feniello
Tax law
Perréard de Boccard offers expert advice on all aspects of tax planning under Swiss and international law, including incomes, inheritance, stamp duty, withholding tax, and all taxes for individuals and corporate entities.
Activities in this area include advice and negotiations for lump sum taxation for people wanting to live in Switzerland.
Philippe de Boccard
Antoine Kohler
Laurent Panchaud
Sébastien Desfayes
Real estate law and construction
Perréard de Boccard has considerable experience in all aspects of real estate and construction law, both as counsel or as litigator. Its clients receive answers to their questions from civil matters, in particular lease agreements or entrepreneurship agreement, to administrative law, in particular construction permits or spatial planning
Pascal Pétroz
Anne Sonnex Kyd
André Tombet
Trust foundation and estate planning
With its long experience in trusts and foundations, as well as in estate planning, both in civil and common law, Perréard de Boccard has developed a very diversified expertise in these areas.
Philippe de Boccard
Laurent Panchaud
André Tombet
Arbitration and litigation
Perréard de Boccard’s expertise includes representation before any administrative, civil, commercial and criminal courts.
Arbitration :
Antoine Kohler
Laurent Panchaud
Lucien Feniello
Litigation :
Pascal Pétroz
Anne Sonnex Kyd
Sébastien Desfayes
Intellectual, industrial and artistic property
Perréard de Boccard provides services to its clients on patents, trademarks, copyrights, software and intangible assets issues. In particular, in the areas of new technologies, its lawyers undertake all the steps needed for company incorporation and the preparation of legal documents and strategies, while taking any related tax and business issues into consideration.
Antoine Kohler
André Tombet
Administrative law, residence and immigration
Perréard de Boccard has an outstanding tradition of assistance and counsel provided to individuals wishing to move to Switzerland or to leave for another country. Furthermore, the law firm provides assistance in administrative litigation.
As an additional benefit in such cases, it will provide its clients with advice regarding the relocation of their families and other aspects of their settlement.
Philippe de Boccard
Laurent Panchaud
Pascal Pétroz
Anne Sonnex Kyd
André Tombet
Commodities trading
For several years, Perréard de Boccard has provided services to companies and individuals in connection with legal issues relating to commodity trading. These services go from the incorporation of commodity trading companies in Switzerland (granting of work permits, tax status, etc.) to the drawing up of legal documents (financing agreements, joint venture agreements, etc) and representation before the courts and international arbitration tribunals.
Perréard de Boccard is also retained on a regular basis by foreign lawyers in connection with attachment proceedings relating to foreign arbitrations.
Laurent Panchaud
Family law, marriage, divorce and labor law
Perréard de Boccard specializes in family law where it has acquired a solid reputation. In particular, it assists and represents clients before the Civil Courts.
Anne Sonnex Kyd
Labor law
For several years, Perréard de Boccard has carried out important work for companies in labor law, in particular in preparing legal documents, collective lay-offs and wages policy
Perréard de Boccard also represents companies and executives before the labor courts.
Julien Liechti