Practice areas

Corporate governance and audit services

The firm has at its disposal an extensive and wide knowledge in developing and implementing Corporate Governance tools, such as Shareholders' agreements, internal organization regulations, internal directives for specific activities and codes of conduct.  Principally, we support shareholders and managers in implementing their specific legal, organizational and financial solutions.

An additional constant focus of the firm in its advisory capacity is the division of responsibilities within the company, notably between the board of directors and the management.  We provide support in situations of conflict between shareholders and directors or, again, between board of directors and management. We carry out independent, internal investigations relating to certain segments of activity, and/or initiate internal compliance functions.

Our clients are different in terms of activity sector and size: from small and medium enterprises to entities belonging to multinational groups.

Multinational companies further require multi-level coordination with internal standards of conduct tailored to the needs of numerous jurisdictions and drafted in various languages. We carry out specific analyses on the accuracy of the internal operative flows, requested for instance at group level to verify potential responsibility following certain events, or to simply identify the appropriate course of action to improve internal procedures. In this regard, the firm refers not only to Swiss or, where relevant, European Union or foreign regulatory standards, but also to best practice and to international corporate social responsibility models.

We provide advice in all official Swiss languages (German, Italian and French) as well as in English.