International

goal-oriented

At eye level

Corporate law and general contract law

Badertscher Attorneys at Law advise Swiss and international clients from several industries and service sectors in all aspects of commercial, contract and corporate law. Our clients include listed companies, privately held companies as well as other corporate entities and business clients. For the latter we often act as an external legal department dealing with all their legal matters.

We have in particular many years of experience in the negotiation and structuring of commercial contracts for Swiss and international transactions. Our focus is on goal and success-oriented negotiation and careful documentation. We are of course familiar with many different legal systems we well as with country-specific and regional differences in mentality.

We negotiate, draft and draw up all the necessary contracts and corporate legal documents such as:

Documents for the incorporation of companies

Shareholders’ agreements

Employment agreements, especially for executives

Employee share option plans and incentive programmes

Legal corporate documents (corporate housekeeping, corporate governance and compliance)

Sales agreements, rental and leasing

Know-how and patent license agreements

Joint venture agreements and cooperations

Consortium agreements, also in the context of EU and KTI research funding

Applications for official authorisations and other regulatory documents

All types of framework agreements

Marketing agreements and agency contracts

Contracts for all types of agency work, including placement services

Formulation of up to date personnel regulations and questions of labour legislation

We are experienced in consultation, project management and project support, litigation representation and official representation as well as drawing up all types of expert legal reports.

Thanks to our international and established network of correspondent lawyers, we are also able to offer services relating to transnational matters and international problems under one roof while being able to take into account all applicable regulations and standards.