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Private Clients

Our Private Clients Team been advising private individuals for many decades. The firm’s private client practice enjoys a high standing and reputation in the field. We strive to understand the needs of our clients and their families and to tailor our advice accordingly. The individuals we represent include entrepreneurs, professionals, landowners, artists, and philanthropists of all ages. In some cases, we have been acting for families over a number of generations.

Our private client team advises on a wide range of legal topics. Our expertise includes national and international aspects in the following areas:

  • Estate planning, estate administration and executorship 
  • Matrimonial property and inheritance agreements 
  • Wills and bequests 
  • In bound and outbound relocation, residence, and nationality 
  • Foundations, endowments, and trusts 
  • Separation, divorce and maintenance
  • Tax planning (wealth tax, income tax, capital gains tax, gift tax and inheritance tax planning) 
  • Compliance and structure audits
  • Legal wealth planning and structuring
  • Powers of attorney, living wills, patient’s directives, contingency planning 
  • Employment issues 
  • Charities and art 
  • Legal family office services
  • Corporate matters for family-owned enterprises, M&A transactions 
  • Insurance issues 
  • Dispute resolution in the aforementioned areas, in particular domestic and cross-border trust and estate litigation and arbitration 
Awards & Recognitions
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    CMS is very impressive.
    The Legal 500, Switzerland, Private Client, 2024
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    They have a great team with excellent experts.
    The Legal 500, Switzerland, Private Client, 2024
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    Outstanding breadth of work and response on tax and corporate matters relating to personal taxation, family businesses, asset protection and investment taxation.
    The Legal 500, Switzerland, Private Client, 2023
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    The team has outstanding personal and professional skills and knows how to apply them in a client-oriented manner. In addition, the international network of CMS works excellently.
    The Legal 500, Switzerland, Private Client, 2023

Private Clients Insights

CMS International Disputes Digest – 2025 Winter Edition

17 Dec 2025 3 min read

Foundations under Swiss law: an overview

10 Oct 2025 7 min read

CMS GlobalRadar

25 Sep 2025 1 min read

Synthèse annuelle : CPC, LP et LDIP

13 Aug 2025 2 min read

CMS Emerging Europe M&A Report 2024/25

29 Jan 2025 4 min read

CMS Switzerland earns renewed recognition as a leading law firm

26 Apr 2024 2 min read

CMS Switzerland recognised by The Legal 500 EMEA 2024

27 Mar 2024 2 min read

Revision of the Swiss Civil Procedure Code as of 1 January 2025: Short commentary

05 Jan 2024 3 min read

Events

  • Switzerland
    08 Apr 2026

    CMS at Fordham IP & Policy Conference

  • Switzerland
    21 Apr 2026

    On the Pulse webinar series 2026 - Spring/Summer

  • Switzerland
    28 Apr 2026

    IP Insights webinar series 2026

  • Switzerland
    02 May 2026

    CMS at INTA 2026

  • Switzerland
    12 May 2026

    "Anti Post Moot Blues"-Event 2026

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