ESTATE MANAGEMENT AND PLANNING

We advise Swiss and foreign clients in family law, and tax and estate planning, and also how to structure and manage their property and other assets. For certain clients we operate a family office.

BESSELEGAL has worked on a large number of cases, for example:

• Acquisition and development of land, including construction and sale of buildings in the Lake Geneva

region

• Real estate deal worth several tens of millions of Swiss francs in Geneva old town

• Dispute between a contractor and a property developer involving a major real estate project in the

Lake Geneva region

• Setting up a worldwide cosmetics franchise, including negotiations and contracts

• Founding a non-governmental organization

• Structuring the capital and funding for a medical start-up

BESSELEGAL has worked on a large number of cases, for example:

• Transferring a foreign IT company's headquarters to Switzerland

• Founding a holding company in Switzerland on behalf of a worldwide IT group

• Multi-jurisdictional dispute about the terms and conditions for buying shares in a listed company by a

competitor

• Establishing the legal structure needed to hold the intellectual property of a multinational owner of

many trademarks and patents in the luxury goods sector

• Dispute about counterfeit plant varieties in the agricultural sector

• Dispute about the validity of a three-dimensional trademark

BESSELEGAL has worked on a large number of cases, for example:

• Legal proceedings against a counterfeit brand on behalf of a luxury goods multinational

• Legal proceedings for patent infringement on behalf of a watch company

• Dispute about the infringements of designs belonging to a luxury goods company by a competitor

• Negotiations and contracts for patent licences and know-how on behalf of a medical company

• Proceedings in several countries in Europe and the USA for patents in the coffee sector

Estate management and planning