Bär & Karrer Ltd.

Private Clients | Litigation | Real Estate | Employment

Daniel Leu advises private clients and family offices on wealth and succession planning, on the handling of estates, in connection with foundations and trusts and on questions in connection with the place of residence. Other areas of work include advising clients who buy or sell real estate in Switzerland and art law.

Daniel Leu is a Certified Specialist SBA Inheritance Law and publishes regulary in the field of inheritance law. He has published extensively and frequently lectures on trust and estate matters in Switzerland and abroad. In addition to his practice, Daniel Leu is a lecturer at the University of Muenster, Germany (Master of Law in Inheritance Law & Corporate Succession).

Daniel Leu is recommended by Chambers and Partners, Who is Who Legal, Legal 500 as well as by the Legal Week Private Client Global Elite Directory.

Partner of Bär & Karrer (since 2015); Associate at Bär & Karrer (since 2007); Law Clerk at the District Courts of Meilen and Dielsdorf (2005-2006); University of Zurich: Research and Teaching Assistant at the chair for private, trade and business law of Prof. Dr. Hans Caspar von der Crone (2002-2004)

German, English

Swiss Lawyers Association (Schweizerischer Juristenverein); Swiss Bar Association; Zurich Bar Association

University of Oxford (Pembroke College): MJur (2010); Admitted to the Zurich Bar (2007); University of Zurich: Dr. iur. (2005); University of Zurich: lic. iur. (2001)