Employment, Immigration and Pension
We offer solutions that fuel business growth, spark innovation, and set our clients up for long-term success.
Whether it's negotiating and drafting employment agreements, managing individual or mass terminations, safeguarding intellectual property, enforcing non-compete and non-solicitation clauses, or ensuring compliance with data protection laws and internal policies, we provide strategic, solutions-driven counsel tailored to your needs, backed by deep expertise. In transactions, we conduct thorough due diligence across all industries, assessing compliance with employment law, pension fund obligations, social security requirements, and workplace health and safety standards - helping businesses mitigate risk and navigate complex transitions with confidence.
To attract and retain top talents, we guide our clients to design and implement compelling incentive plans, including share purchase programs, stock options with tailored vesting schedules, and bonus retention schemes. Our team ensures these plans are both legally sound and strategically optimized - maximizing their impact while maintaining compliance with tax and social security regulations. We secure work and residency permits and assist foreign residents in the negotiations of lump-sum tax regimes in Switzerland.
We advise Swiss and internationally operating companies on social security obligations and pensions.
Our partners and counsels sit on the boards of major pension funds and listed insurance companies.
Our services include:
- Employment agreements, including shareholding aspects, as well as related contractual arrangements (e.g., mandate agreements, consulting agreements, and "body lending")
- Company policies and guidelines, including employee manuals, codes of conduct, data protection policies, and anti-discrimination regulations
- Executive compensation and policies, including short- and long-term incentive schemes and plans, as well as related tax and social security considerations, disclosure obligations and compensation reports for listed companies, and "say-on-pay" legislation
- Employee secondments and cross-border assignments
- Investigations (e.g. discrimination, harassement, etc.)
- Work and residency permits, as well as negotiation of lump-sum tax regimes in Switzerland
- Social security matters, including insolvency and unemployment compensation
- Pensions
- Cross-border employee transfers
- Mass dismissals: managing large-scale redundancies, including regulatory notifications, social plan negotiations, and liability waivers
- Employment issues linked to M&A, including due diligence
- Employment disputes and negotiations
Main Contacts:
Employment and Immigration: Arun Chandrasekharan
Executive compensation: Marie-Noëlle Zen-Ruffinen
Pension: Leila Hawa
