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Bär & Karrer Ltd.

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Bär & Karrer Ltd.‘s Lugano office is poised to assist its high calibre clients with transactions, dispute resolution, tax, and private client mandates. Paolo Bottini, who is significantly experienced in providing legal and tax advice to multinational corporations and banks as well as financial institutions, and Cesare Jermini, who notably specialises in international and domestic arbitration, spearhead the group. Other key contacts include Massimo Vanotti, who principally focuses on corporate and commercial law matters extending across a diverse array of sectors, and tax expert Matthias Bizzarro, who was promoted to partner in January 2023.

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Key clients

  • Consulcesi Group
  • xFarm SA
  • Helsinn SA
  • Investindustrial Services SA
  • Humabs BioMed SA
  • Gi Group S.p.A.

Lawyers

Leading Individuals

Cesare Jermini

Cesare Jermini

Bär & Karrer Ltd.

Cesare Jermini has extensive experience in court litigation as well as international and domestic arbitration, in which he specializes. He regularly acts as a party counsel before state courts and the Federal Tribunal (in civil, criminal and administrative matters) as well as in domestic and international arbitration proceedings. Cesare Jermini is often appointed as chairman, sole arbitrator and co-arbitrator in international and domestic arbitration proceedings, conducted under the ICC Rules, Swiss Rules, Rules of the Camera Arbitrale Nazionale e Internazionale di Milano, UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules as well as in ad hoc proceedings. Cesare Jermini also advises clients in commercial and company law, private international law, joint ventures, transportation, labor, administrative, real estate and inheritance law. He is a member of the executive board of GASI (Gruppo Arbitrato della Svizzera italiana – the Local Group Ticino of ASA, the Swiss Arbitration Association), the ASA Marketing Committee and the International and Domestic Panels of Arbitrators of several arbitral institutions.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Paolo Bottini, Cesare Jermini

Other key lawyers

Massimo Vanotti, Matthias Bizzarro