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Tax
Schellenberg Wittmer Ltd is skilled in an array of contentious and non-contentious matters, with extensive experience working with tax authorities, at both the federal and cantonal levels. Jean-Frédéric Maraia, who advises individual and corporate clients on all tax matters both at the domestic and international level, and Michael Nordin, whose focus is transactions such as mergers and acquisitions, reorganisations, and restructurings, head the Geneva and Zurich teams, respectively. Pietro Sansonetti has skill in negotiating with tax authorities on delicate and high-value matters. Danielle Hostettler‘s key focus is on private client taxation. At the associate level, Roland Wild and Arthur Magnin are key names.
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Key clients
- Barana Group
- CIR - Compagnie Industriali Riunite S.p.A.
- Credit Suisse
- European Broadcasting Union
- HSBC
- International Committee of the Red Cross
- Julius Bär
- Swiss Re Group
- Vontobel
- Scor
- AXA
- Schroder Bank
- Banco Santander
- Swiss Life
- Sowind Group
- Reyl & Cie
Work highlights
- Advising a major non-Swiss bank on negotiations with the Swiss Federal Tax Administration regarding the refundability of withholding taxes in connection with capital market transactions; the topic is beneficial ownership.
- Advising a major Swiss bank on possible mitigations of the significant over taxation of Swiss financial institutions with the introduction of the minimal tax based on the OECD initiative "Pillar 2".
- Advising a client and representing them in tax proceedings regarding reorganisations claimed to trigger Swiss taxes in the amount of more than USD 100 million.
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