Tax Law Firm of the Year Switzerland

Firm Profile

PBK is a full-service interdisciplinary business law firm that was founded by four well es-tablished practitioners with their respective teams from other law firms. PBK has grown since to more than twenty professionals. We offer the full range of services typically required in the context of international transactions and restructurings, namely corporate, contractual, tax and labour law advice. Our firm consists of experts who, rather than being simply a collection of resources unrelated among themselves, see beyond the traditional limits of their areas of expertise. We view ourselves as part of the client’s risk management. The law is for us a tool to control risk. Based on this premise we help our clients create contractual and organizational structures that give them control over the relevant processes. We participate in shaping our client’s business activities which involves establishing corporate, legal and tax related xstructures that are in line with the client’s goals. We work in a process and goal oriented manner.

Walter H. Boss

Walter H. Boss is a graduate of the University of Bern and of New York University School of Law, where he obtained an LLM (Tax) degree and was admitted to the bar in 1980. Until 1984 he served in the Swiss Federal Tax Administration (International Tax Law Division) as legal counsel and was also a delegate to the OECD Committee of Fiscal Affairs. He then was an attorney with major firms in Lugano and Zurich. In 1988, he became a partner at Ernst & Young’s International Services Office in New York. Upon his return to Switzerland in 1991 he joined a major law firm in Zurich, prior to co-founding Poledna

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Boss Kurer AG and was a partner at another well-known law firm in Zurich.

His areas of concentration are national and international tax law, mergers and acquisitions, private equity and corporate restructurings. He also advises private clients. He practices in German, English, French and Italian and has published extensively both in Switzerland as well as in the US and is, among others, a co-author of the

commentary to the Swiss-US income tax treaty and a commentary on the Swiss Code of Obligations (corporate law).

He is a member of the Zurich Bar Association, the Swiss Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the International Bar Association and the International Fiscal Association. He served as chairman and is currently a member of the Tax Chapter Board of the Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce. He is a member of the Practice Council of the New York University Law School’s International Tax Program.

Areas of Expertise

• Banking & Finance • Commercial and Corporate Law • Energy Law • Health-care Law • In Sourcing Out Sourcing

• Interaction: Private and Public Law as an example

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• Insurance / Reinsurance / Liability • Litigation / Arbitration • M&A / Transactions • Presence in Asia • Private Clients • Public Organisations • Regulations • Tax Law • Technology / Life sciences / IP

Notable Legal Work

We have recently gained additional experience by providing legal advice in a great variety of challenging projects, including:

• Providing corporate legal services and tax advice to multinationals regarding group restructurings

• Providing expert opinions for banks and bank merges

• Disputes about third-party access in the telecommunications sector

• Obtaining permits and licenses for clients from a multitude of sectors

• Conducting complex legal proceedings against supervisory authorities

• Advising insurance companies regarding regulatory oversight

Our long-standing working relationships with leading foreign law firms allow us to often serve as Swiss local counsel in international cases involving corporate and tax law.

Contact

Walter H. Boss P | B | K Poledna Boss Kurer AG Rechtsanwälte | Attorneys at law Bellerivestrasse 241 Postfach | P.O. Box 865 CH-8034 Zürich

Tel: +41 44 220 12 12 Fax: +41 44 220 12 13 Website: www.pbklaw.ch Email: boss@pbklaw.ch

Lawyer Monthly Legal Awards 2011