Dr. Angelica Maria Schwarz

Partner, Certified Tax Expert and Attorney-at-Law

Authentic lawyer with comprehensive expertise in tax law. She combines in-depth knowledge with strategic thinking to tackle complex tax-related challenges in a solution-focused manner.

About

Dr. Angelica M. Schwarz has many years of expertise in advising companies and private individuals on complex issues of national and international tax law. She advises in particular on all tax aspects of restructurings, M&A transactions, employee stock option programs (ESOP & VSOP), financing transactions, real estate structuring, financial products, tax litigation, succession planning, digitization and the digital economy. Through her part-time work as a judge at the Administrative Court of the Canton of Aargau, Dr. Angelica M. Schwarz has acquired broad and in-depth expertise, which she skillfully applies for the benefit of her clients.

She wrote her doctoral thesis on the treatment of data under commercial and tax law. One of Dr. Angelica M. Schwarz's core areas of expertise is advising on the eligibility of data for recognition in the balance sheet and on the optimization of data-driven business models under tax law.

She regularly gives lectures, participates in panel discussions, and publishes scientific articles in her areas of expertise. In addition, Dr. Angelica M. Schwarz provides both internal and external training sessions and considers sharing knowledge an important way to foster essential debate in the research arena.

Her interdisciplinary approach, which combines entrepreneurial thinking with a flair for numbers, makes her an expert in her field.

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Languages

  • German
  • English

Experience

Career
Memberships
Education
  • Since 2025: Partner, Kellerhals Carrard KlG, Zurich

  • Since 2024: Part-time Judge, Aargau Administrative Court, Aarau

  • 2024: Attorney at Law, Voser Rechtsanwälte KlG, Baden

  • 2019-2023: (Senior) Associate, Bär & Karrer AG, Zurich

  • 2018: Legal Associate, Bär & Karrer AG, Zurich

  • 2016-2017: Research and teaching assistant at the Chair for Swiss, European and International Tax Law, University of Zurich

  • 2015-2016: Trainee Attorney, Bär & Karrer AG, Zurich

  • 2014-2015: Court Clerk (Auditor), District Court of Uster, Zurich

  • 2012: Legal Trainee, Law Office V. Landmann, Zurich

  • 2004-2007: Bank Officer, Bank Julius Bär & Co. AG, Zurich

  • Swiss Bar Association (SAV)

  • Zurich Bar Association (ZAV)

  • EXPERTsuisse Swiss Expert Association for Audit, Tax and Fiduciary

  • IFA International Fiscal Association

  • Max Planck Alumni Association

  • 2023: Certified Tax Expert, EXPERTsuisse, Zurich

  • 2016-2019: Dr. iur., University of Zurich

  • 2016-2017: Visiting Researcher and Scholarship Holder, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, Munich

  • 2017: Visiting Researcher, University of Edinburgh

  • 2012-2013: Mobility program, University of Zurich

  • 2010-2012: MLaw, University of Lucerne

  • 2007-2010: Bachelor of Science in Business Law, Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Winterthur

Contact

Zurich

Rämistrasse 5
Postfach
CH-8024 Zürich

Tel. +41 58 200 39 00
Fax +41 58 200 39 11
info@kellerhals-carrard.ch

Kellerhals Carrard

Basel ∣ Bern ∣ Geneva ∣ Lausanne ∣ Lugano ∣ Sion ∣ Zurich


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