WAEBER MAITRE

Corporate law

• Uberization
• board of directors
• Creation / incorporation
• Shareholders' agreement
• Consortium / Joint venture
• Acquisition
• Acquisition with recourse to borrowing
• Due diligence
• Family inheritance
• Sale
• Sale to management / employees
• Restructuring
• Investment (private equity)
• Advice to SMEs / unlisted entities
• Establishment of foreign companies
• Expansion of local businesses
• Liquidation of companies
• Taxation
• Board of shareholders
• Conflict between shareholders

Tenancy law

• Defence, representation and advice (lessors and lessees)
• Residential leases
• Commercial leases
• rental
• Subletting

Real estate law

• Purchase (including by persons abroad)
• Sale
• Brokerage
• construction law
• Architect contract
• Business contract
• Administration (Real estate company, PPE)
• Promotion
• Taxation
• Funding
• Permission to build
• Territory Development
• Rural land law
• Environmental Protection
• French real estate law

• Defence, representation and advice (employers and employees)
• Establishment of contracts
• Civil service law
• Collective labor agreements
• Collective dismissals
• Apprenticeship contracts
• Cross-border workers

Brands

• designs
• Copyright
• Domain names
• Geographical indications (in particular Swiss Made)
• Contracts
• Strategy
• Intellectual Property Dispute Resolution

Retail

• Management and valuation of intellectual property rights portfolios (strategy, research, filing, renewal, acquisition, assignment, opposition, cancellation, etc.)
• Advice, negotiation, mediation, conflict resolution in intellectual property matters
• Commercial and technical contractual law in relation to intellectual property rights (confidentiality, trade secret, license, franchise, distribution, sponsorship, subcontracting, etc.)
• Fight against counterfeiting and unfair competition
• Expertise, advice, support, specific intervention in the watch and jewelry industry in Switzerland and abroad (design, R&D, manufacturing, subcontracting, distribution, marketing, counterfeiting)

Sectors

• Watchmaking
• Jewelry store
• Jewelry
• Luxury
• Art
• Fashion
• Retail
• Restoration
• Drinks
• Agri-food
• Artisanal and industrial subcontracting
• Finance

• Advice and representation before Swiss and French courts
• Concubinage
• Registered partnership
• Marriage
• Divorce
• Maintenance contribution
• Protective measures for the marital union
• Illicit cross-border removal of children
• Wealth planning, marriage contract
• Estate planning, will, inheritance agreement
• Family property law (taxation, real estate, family companies)
• Adoption
• Amicable resolution of family disputes
• Family council / Family office