Our services

Tax Due Diligence

  • Buy or sell-side Swiss tax due diligence to quantify tax risks and opportunities
  • Aligning Grant Thornton member firms in relevant market jurisdictions in cross-border transactions
  • In-detailed review of identified Swiss and foreign tax risks

Tax Structuring Advice

  • Succession planning
  • Management buy-out or buy-in
  • Carve-out
  • National / international acquisition structuring
  • Employee stock option plan
  • Tax modelling

Share and Asset Purchase Agreement / SPA respectively APA

  • Tax advice on SPA and APA
  • Preparation of tax warranty and indemnity clauses
  • Tax advice on conditional payments (such as earn-out mechanisms and escrow accounts)
  • Ad-hoc tax support throughout the negotiation and execution process

Post-transaction advice

  • Clearing identified tax risks, filing and negotiations of tax rulings with the tax authorities
  • Ruling clearance on acquisition structures and implementation
  • Financial restructuring of distressed companies
  • Monitoring of ongoing tax and transfer pricing risks and opportunities as well as tax optimization