Inheritance law revision 2023

The reduction of the compulsory portion from 1 January 2023 offers the testator new flexibility. Plan early and review your last will or inheritance contract. Careful estate planning facilitates the settlement of the estate and reduces potential conflicts between heirs or beneficiaries. Our attorneys are happy to assist you in this process.

Abolition of bearer shares: Deadline!

Bearer shares are only permissible if a company is listed on a stock exchange or has structured the bearer shares as intermediated securities. If this is not the case, bearer shares must be converted into registered shares by 30 April 2021 at the latest. The conversion requires notarization by a notary public.

COVID-19 SME hotline

Reichlin Hess is also actively contributing to the hotline for Zug SMEs launched by the Lawyers' Association of the Canton of Zug. Our specialists in employment, tenancy and corporate law will be available to Zug SMEs on Friday, April 3, 2020 and Monday, April 6, 2020 via the hotline 0800 525 010.

Availability Reichlin Hess AG

Dear Clients and Business Partners, To respond to the challenges caused by the Coronavirus (COVID-19), the team of Reichlin Hess AG is working remotely from home starting from today. Our IT systems are set-up to ensure the confidentiality, and availability of our e-mails and documents system in order to securely work both in the office and remotely. The whole team...

New Attorney and Notary Public: Dominic Baumgartner

We are happy to welcome Dominic Baumgartner as a Attorney at Law and Notary Public in our team! His main practice areas are corporate and commercial law, litigation and national and international arbitration, advice on and drafting of contracts, the law on debt enforcement and bankruptcy and sports law.

New Partners!

We are happy to announce the new members to the partnership of our firm as per 1 January 2019.

Certified Specialist SBA Employment Law

Having successfully completed a Certificate of Advanced Studies of the University of Zurich (UZH) in Employment Law as well as having passed the oral specialist exam, Philipp Bachmann was awarded the title of „Certified Specialist SBA Employment Law“ by the Swiss Bar Association in June 2018.

Collaboration with soXes GmbH

The implementation of data protection regulations requires IT to be under control at all times. Reichlin Hess AG has found in soXes GmbH a partner with proven experience in the IT sector (over 200 successful development projects and over 100 active customers). Together with soXes GmbH we can offer you comprehensive advice in the area of data protection.