Schurti Partners

Dispute Resolution

The better part of our dispute resolution team's work relates to disputes concerning:

trusts, foundations and other private asset structures, with our firm representing a wide variety of possible stakeholders, such as founders, settlors, beneficiaries, creditors and professional fiduciary service providers;

international estates;

professional liability claims (in particular against professional service providers) and

insurance companies, banks and other financial intermediaries, with our firm representing financial intermediaries and their contractual counterparties alike.

In recent years, we have been particularly busy handling trust- and foundation-related disputes. Our firm regularly represents settlors/founders and beneficiaries of Liechtenstein trusts and foundations who are dissatisfied with the way professional fiduciary service providers administer "their" trusts and foundations. In many cases we have been able to effect the replacement of the undesirable fiduciary service provider by a new fiduciary service provider trusted by our respective clients.

Most of the disputes handled by our firm are not limited to Liechtenstein but are of a multi-jurisdictional nature. In many of these cases we not only advise our clients on those aspects of the matters relevant to Liechtenstein but also assist our clients in the strategical and tactical coordination of their actions in other jurisdictions involved. The close working relations our firm maintains with leading foreign firms and barristers are a great asset and guarantee that our clients are provided with highest-quality legal services throughout.

Corporate & Commercial Law

Our Corporate and Commercial practice is an important pillar of our law firm. Our experts regularly advise clients on all matters regarding the formation, migration, reorganization and restructuring of all types of legal entities under Liechtenstein law. Over the last decades, our firm has been involved in a large number of major M&A projects relating to Liechtenstein. Our team is particularly experienced in transactions involving regulated entities (such as banks, insurance undertakings and fintech service providers), Liechtenstein holding entities and industrial enterprises some of which are large domestic employers or subsidiaries of foreign listed corporations. We are also accustomed to cooperate with foreign law firms on multi-jurisdictional transactions - service-mindedness is part of our firm's DNA.

Since most of the larger transactions which involve Liechtenstein are of cross-border nature, it is a considerable advantage that the team's lawyers are qualified and/or admitted in several jurisdictions (Liechtenstein, Switzerland, New York, England and Wales, Ireland, Germany, California and Austria) and multi-lingual. As one of the largest Liechtenstein law firms, we not only have the required expertise but also the necessary resources to handle the most complex international transactions.

Our corporate & commercial team also advises our local and international corporate clients on their daily legal affairs (such as labour law, compliance, product liability, intellectual property law, data protection and general contract law).

Corporate & Commercial Law

Our Corporate and Commercial practice is an important pillar of our law firm. Our experts regularly advise clients on all matters regarding the formation, migration, reorganization and restructuring of all types of legal entities under Liechtenstein law. Over the last decades, our firm has been involved in a large number of major M&A projects relating to Liechtenstein. Our team is particularly experienced in transactions involving regulated entities (such as banks, insurance undertakings and fintech service providers), Liechtenstein holding entities and industrial enterprises some of which are large domestic employers or subsidiaries of foreign listed corporations. We are also accustomed to cooperate with foreign law firms on multi-jurisdictional transactions - service-mindedness is part of our firm's DNA.

Since most of the larger transactions which involve Liechtenstein are of cross-border nature, it is a considerable advantage that the team's lawyers are qualified and/or admitted in several jurisdictions (Liechtenstein, Switzerland, New York, England and Wales, Ireland, Germany, California and Austria) and multi-lingual. As one of the largest Liechtenstein law firms, we not only have the required expertise but also the necessary resources to handle the most complex international transactions.

Our corporate & commercial team also advises our local and international corporate clients on their daily legal affairs (such as labour law, compliance, product liability, intellectual property law, data protection and general contract law).

Criminal Defence

Our criminal defence team has vast experience in the representation of companies and individuals in white-collar crime matters before the Liechtenstein courts and authorities. Over the last decades, our firm has handled some of the most delicate and high-profile white-collar crime cases in Liechtenstein.

A further strength of our criminal defence team lies in the field of international judicial assistance, in particular in relation to the confiscation of assets in Liechtenstein and abroad.

Most cases handled by our criminal defence team have a multi-jurisdictional dimension. Due to our firm's close working relationships with leading foreign firms and barristers specialized in the field of white-collar crime law, we are able to defend our clients competently in multi-jurisdictional white-collar crime cases.