Expertise

Practice Areas

General Contract Law

What We Offer

A well negotiated and expertly drafted contract forms the foundation of a successful contractual relationship. With dedication, passion, precision and a high level of expertise, we prepare and negotiate the necessary contracts in close collaboration with our clients; always with a clear focus on the intended objectives and tailored to the specific circumstances.

Services

  • Employment contracts
  • Shareholders' agreements
  • Easement agreements
  • Marital and inheritance contracts
  • Franchise agreements
  • Partnership agreements
  • Innominate contracts
  • Purchase agreements
  • License agreements
  • Rental agreements
  • Deeds of gift
  • Contracts for work and services

Corporate Law

What We Offer

We provide comprehensive legal advice in corporate law, with a focus on commercially efficient and legally secure solutions. Our services include the incorporation, structuring, reorganisation and liquidation of companies. In addition, we support our clients in the implementation and compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements. With an entrepreneurial mindset, we combine leading legal expertise with a clear understanding of commercial contexts and a focus on pragmatic, workable solutions that meet our clients' specific needs.

Services

  • Incorporations
  • Structurings
  • Reorganisations
  • Capital increases
  • Capital reductions
  • Financings
  • Shareholders' agreements
  • Preparation and support of general meetings and board meetings
  • Drafting of internal regulations
  • Development of possible behavioural strategies

Mergers & Acquisitions

What We Offer

We advise companies and their owners comprehensively in the planning, structuring and implementation of company successions, acquisitions, sales, mergers and reorganisations with a clear focus on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Our range of services includes legal structuring, due diligence, conducting negotiations, drafting of transaction documents and assistance through to the closing of the transaction. We place particular emphasis on intra-family succession solutions, management buy-outs (MBOs), management buy-ins (MBIs), as well as external sales to strategic or financial investors.

Services

  • Company acquisitions
  • Sale of companies
  • Mergers, demergers, reorganisations and restructurings
  • Joint ventures
  • Family succession solutions
  • Management buy-outs and management by-ins

Inheritance Law, Estate Planing

What We Offer

We provide comprehensive advice to our national and international clients on estate planning, including property and company succession. Our notary license authorizes us to prepare and notarize last wills and advance care directives. We also act as executors of wills and handle the estate administration and settlement, including assistance in inheritance disputes.

Services

  • Estate planning
  • Lifetime asset transfers
  • Succession planning in the company
  • Advance care directives and living wills
  • Marital contracts
  • Last wills (wills and inheritance contracts)
  • Execution of wills and estate administration
  • Inheritance disputes

Private Clients

What We Offer

We provide tailored solutions for our sophisticated private clients and their families in the areas of estate planning, relocation and asset protection. We also assist them with their day-to-day legal matters, offering services in the spirit of a family office. We can notarise inheritance contracts in-house, represent inheritance claims in court and also act as executors.

Services

  • Advice on marital and inheritance law
  • Execution of wills
  • Establishment of foundations
  • Relocation of residence abroad and inbound relocation to Switzerland
  • Advice on the purchase and sale of real estate

Notary’s Office

What We Offer

Our lawyers with a notary's license are able to offer legal advice and notarial services throughout Switzerland – competently, multilingual and from a single source. Our team guarantees time- and cost-efficient notarial services and the necessary pragmatism. We support national and international clients in all corporate transactions requiring notarisation and provide notarial services for private clients in connection with succession planning and inheritance matters.

Services

  • Incorporation of companies
  • Capital increases of decreases
  • Corporate law resolutions
  • Marital contracts
  • Last wills and inheritance contracts
  • Notarisations
  • Affidavits

Real Estate Law

What We Offer

We provide comprehensive advice throughout the entire real estate life cycle - from project development and transactions to tenancy law, combining legal precision with a practical understanding of the regional market and construction projects. Efficient, targeted and always focussed on your interests.

Services

  • Implementation of real estate transactions
  • Legal due diligence in real estate acquisitions
  • Purchase and sale of real estate
  • Building permits and construction contracts
  • Development and realisation of construction projects
  • Drafting and reviewing rental and lease agreements
  • Condominium ownership and co-ownership
  • Mortgages and liens on real estate
  • Neighbourhood law disputes
  • Representation in real estate litigation proceedings
  • Utilisation and easement agreements

Labour Law, Migration Law

What We Offer

We support companies and private individuals in all labour law matters. Our advice is pragmatic, forward-looking, and tailored to individual needs. Whether drafting contracts, restructuring or conflict resolution - we are at your side with experience and sensitivity.

Services

  • Employment contracts and regulations
  • Termination agreements
  • Advice on dismissals and leaves of absence
  • Labour law disputes and litigation
  • Advice in connection with collective redundancies
  • Bonus and participation plans
  • Labour law due diligence
  • Assistance with internal investigations
  • Advice on international employment relationships
  • Work permits and migration

Tenancy Law

What We Offer

We provide our clients with comprehensive advice on all matters relating to tenancy law: from drafting and reviewing the relevant tenancy agreements, contesting rent increases or reductions to the judicial eviction of tenants, contesting notices of termination and obtaining extensions or asserting claims for defects in the rental property.

Services

  • Drafting of rental agreements (commercial and residential real estate)
  • Rent structuring
  • Contestation of terminations; obtaining extensions
  • Claims from rental and lease agreements

Tax Law and Duties

What We Offer

Tax matters are often complex and a decisive factor for companies, entrepreneurs and private individuals. We support our clients in all areas of national and international tax law in a strategic, solution-orientated, pragmatic and creative manner. We address specific needs in a targeted manner, develop optimal solutions and implement them reliably and professionally. We provide tax advice, notarial services and legal advice in the areas of corporate law, mergers & acquisitions, inheritance and estate planning, real estate and private clients efficiently and cost-consciously from a single source.

Services

  • Planning, structuring and implementation of mergers & acquisitions transactions and restructurings
  • Comprehensive tax support for property transactions
  • Advice for individuals, particularly when moving to Switzerland
  • Obtaining binding advance tax rulings
  • Advice on succession planning, gift and inheritance taxes
  • Representation in tax appeals and litigation

Litigation and Procedural Law

What We Offer

Conflicts cannot always be avoided. You can count on our lawyers when it comes to finding solutions and conducting targeted litigation. Our team has extensive experience in litigation throughout Switzerland. We represent our clients' interests in civil, criminal and administrative proceedings with legal sensitivity and a clear focus on economically viable solutions.

Services

  • Legal representation in civil, criminal and administrative proceedings
  • Support in strategic litigation, planning and dispute avoidance
  • Conducting settlement negotiations
  • Enforcement or defence of claims in the context of bankruptcy and probate proceedings
  • Enforcement of domestic and foreign judgements

Bright Law AG operates in a professional and entrepreneurial environment. We are lawyers with an entrepreneurial spirit, strategists with depth, and listeners with a clear stance.

We advise companies, families, investors, and decision-makers on legal matters that truly matter – whether it is during the formation, growth, transition, or in case of disputes. Our mandates are as diverse as our clientele – and that’s our strength: we simplify complexity, identify patterns, and ask the critical questions.

Our location in Zug is no coincidence: we think internationally, act pragmatically, and focus on efficiency, clarity, and reliability. Whether it’s corporate law, contracts, mergers & acquisitions, succession planning, private clients, or notarial services – we deliver substance.

We believe in excellent service – personal, discreet, solution-oriented. Always to the point.