Notary Services

Our goal is to offer our clients first-class notarial services. In order to develop an appropriate solution, we offer in-depth advice for the respective business, in addition to drawing up documents. We advise and support our clients on a professional, proactive, appropriate and contemporary basis. We develop solutions at a price that corresponds to their added value.

We are part of swisNot, a network of well-established Swiss notaries with a presence in many cantons, enabling real estate transactions and other notarizations to be processed directly or indirectly throughout Switzerland.

Real Estate

• Sale, purchase, donation, and exchange of real estate
• Creation and increase of mortgage interests (including borrower’s notes)
• Establishment of condominium ownership
• Priority notice of tenancy agreements in the land register
• Real estate leasing
• Transfer of real estate portfolios
• Development of building land
• Development in areas of reorganization of usage/use and sales
• Notarial certifications under German law for real estate in Germany (in cooperation with German notaries)

Corporate law

• Foundations
• Capital increases
• Mergers, divisions, conversions, and transfers of assets
• Amendments to the Articles of Association
• Notarizations of general meetings for listed companies
• Liquidations
• Notarial authentications under German law for sale and purchase of GmbH shares, merger, division and transformation of companies (in cooperation with German notaries); under Austrian law for pledging of GmbH shares (in cooperation with Austrian law firms)

Matrimonial and inheritance law

• Drawing up wills
• Marriage and inheritance agreements
• Estate planning for unmarried couples
• Advance care directive
• Execution of wills as well as marital and inheritance contracts
• Division of the estate
• Certificates of inheritance
• Establishment of a foundation, amendments to the certificate of incorporation, merger and liquidation
• Inventory under inheritance law (Bern)
• Estate planning in connection with a change of residence or the acquisition of a second home (for Swiss and foreign nationals, in cooperation with foreign law firms)

Certifications and supplementary attestations

We offer companies known to us the opportunity to have their documents certified by us without the documents having to be signed in the presence of a notary. This speeds up the processing time considerably. We design customized forms for your business and develop a system that is tailored to your specific needs.

Most foreign countries insist that our certification is accompanied by an apostille or that the corresponding consulate performs a supplementary attestation. We know what is required and we can provide the necessary supplementary attestations.

Our most recent work in the notary’s office includes:

• International estate planning for a new family with children from previous marriages and assets in different countries
• Settlement of an estate with several conflicting wills and assets in different countries
• Restructuring of companies with mergers and spin-offs
• Sale of an industrial plant due to relocation of production
• Purchase and sale of real estate portfolios
• Takeover of the Swiss part of a European real estate leasing
• Property leasing of a port area with a logistics center
• Advising investors on the purchase of real estate for a shopping center and hotel
• Certifications and notarial authentications following the takeover of companies