Legal and tax advice
bonnefouspartners supports you throughout the life of your business
Support at every stage
From start-up to conversion or closure, we can help you every step of the way, and draw up the contracts and documents you need to successfully complete your project. We study all the tax aspects of your project and develop a coherent strategy in line with your objectives.
Creation, acquisition, sale and transmission
Our legal and tax experts can help you set up, acquire, sell or transfer a business, as well as assist you with business transfers.
Our global approach:
- Choose the most appropriate legal structure and analyze its tax implications
- Carry out legal due diligence (company law, labor law, social security) and tax due diligence to secure your acquisition operation, in collaboration with our audit and advisory department
- Draft contracts relating to your start-up or acquisition operation, anticipate tax risks
We support private clients and non-profit organizations in:
- Legal structuring
- Official recognition
- Securing philanthropic and heritage projects
Restructuring, transformation, reorganization and liquidation
During the life of your company, we support your restructuring projects by ensuring tax and legal compliance, particularly in the event of:
- Transformation of legal structure (sole proprietorship → SA or Sàrl)
- Setting up of a holding company to anticipate future acquisitions
- Restructuring by demerger to facilitate the sale of part of the operation
- Merging to efficiently integrate different entities
When your company is going through a difficult period, we analyze the various reorganization measures that are possible and necessary to keep your business going, as well as their tax impact:
- Debt waiver
- Capital increase or reduction
- Spin-off of unprofitable or non-essential operations
- Lower operating costs
- Drafting of a postposition contract
If discontinuation of business becomes unavoidable, we coordinate all the steps involved, including:
- Organization and management of the liquidation process with the notary and the Commercial Registry, until your company is deregistered
- All formalities with cantonal and federal tax authorities
Other services
- Cessation of business with preferential taxation
- Transfer of business to heirs
- Inheritance deferral
- Lease
Our tax specialists can help you with:
- Preparing forms 103 and 106 to declare dividends paid to a Swiss company
- Obtaining prior approval from the FTA and managing forms 823B / C to apply the declaration procedure for dividends paid to a foreign company
- Completing form 25 for refund of withholding tax on dividends or interest
- Drawing up the documentation required for the announcement and repayment of reserves from capital contributions (RAC)
We can help you find the most appropriate solution for your company, including setting up attractive profit-sharing schemes:
- Negotiation and validation with tax authorities / ruling request
- Drawing up of a profit-sharing plan
Our commercial law experts will draft and prepare:
- Various contracts
- Minutes of Annual General Meeting
- Board minutes
- Commercial register requisitions
Need legal or tax advice?
Our specialists will analyze your situation and suggest appropriate solutions.
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Frequently asked questions
At bonnefouspartners, we can provide you with a detailed analysis of the tax and legal consequences of converting from a sole proprietorship to a limited liability company (SA or Sàrl):
- An in-depth study of the long-term suitability of this restructuring, so as to take into account your project in its entirety, particularly in the event of future sale or transfer to your heirs
- A tax analysis aimed at optimizing this restructuring operation and, if necessary, obtaining agreements with the tax authorities (ruling)
- A highlight of the pitfalls to be avoided, such as failure to meet certain legal deadlines, which can compromise a sale or transfer transaction
Our aim: to provide you with a clear and secure vision of how to successfully carry out this transformation, while complying with Swiss tax and legal obligations.
We design a tailor-made transfer strategy (sale, donation, succession), integrating the valuation of your business, the planning of the tax consequences of this operation and legal compliance, to secure the handover.
We analyze your financial situation and identify appropriate restructuring measures (restructuring, refinancing, expense optimization), as well as the tax impact of the proposed measures, in order to preserve your business and your jobs.
We support you in planning the cessation of your self-employed activity, particularly in the context of retirement or family succession.
We analyze the tax consequences of this operation and advise you on how to mitigate the impact, both for you and for your heirs.
A holding company can help you optimize the management and ownership of interests in several companies, while facilitating the structuring of your assets and investments.
We will work with you to assess the benefits of a holding company according to your objectives: estate and tax planning, consolidation of holdings or structuring of investments in Switzerland and abroad.
A profit-sharing plan helps to build loyalty and commitment among your teams, and, depending on the structure chosen, to benefit from tax advantages. We design and validate these plans with the relevant tax authorities by means of a prior agreement/ruling.
Yes, our trustee will guide you in choosing the most suitable legal form (Company Limited by Shares, Limited Liability Company, sole proprietorship, etc.), taking into account tax aspects, protection of personal assets and requirements in terms of: minimum capital, liability and accounting obligations.
