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JEANTET is the only Franco-Swiss top-of-the line business and tax law firm making available to its French, Swiss, and international clients a platform of 150 lawyers with expertise that is both powerful and recognized.

Our team has more than 20 years’ experience advising on problems involving Franco-Swiss relationships for companies and financial institutions and for family businesses.

A Swiss law firm admitted to the Bar of Geneva, our firm has been cited as being a “reference for handling Franco-Swiss issues” (Legal 500 Law Firm Directory).  Patrice Lefèvre-Péaron, managing partner of the Firm, moreover, has been mentioned as a “very technical lawyer, very attentive, the depth of whose expertise gives clients confidence in very complex matters.”

For transactions in the European Union or Africa, our team of ten lawyers, experienced in putting their expertise at the service of our clients in Geneva, France, and Luxembourg, advises:

• Multinational companies (in particular, via their world or EMEA headquarters offices in the Arc Lémanique or in Luxembourg, where their holding companies may be located)
• Swiss companies, especially industrial enterprises
• Banks and financial institutions
• Private equity funds
• Investment fund managers (OPCVM, AIF)
• Commodities traders
• BRICS investors
• Single and Multi-family offices
• Law firms

For our Swiss clients, our Firm offers a unique platform of expertise, integrated with our Luxembourg office, for structuring mutual or private investments under Luxembourg law.

Working closely with our Swiss partners, our lawyers also advise:

• Foreign companies on their Swiss investments
• Financial branches and operating platforms located in Switzerland
• Industrial or “UHNW” families
• Other players who choose Switzerland as a platform for investments in the European Union or Africa

Principal areas of expertise in our Geneva Office:

• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Tax law
• Business law
• Mutual or private investment funds
• Cross-border law (employment/labour law, infrastructure and real property law, public and administrative law, financings)