Who will sit on your file
The team — 5 Swiss-trained specialists, English-first
Five named specialists, one Zug office at Baarerstrasse 14, one working language. Corporate and holding, FINMA, cantonal tax, accounting and VAT, immigration. No head-office theatre, no partner-cast-of-thousands slide.
Orientation
How to read this page
Five cards below, each one specialist. Role label describes what they do, not equity status. One intake route to any of them.
What you will see on each card
Each card carries a portrait, a full name, a role label and a one-line specialisation blurb. The role label is the canonical description of the specialist’s work on our file, not a statement about partnership status or firm equity. For questions about the firm’s legal form, see our story and office.
Why there are no personal emails here
All enquiries go through a single intake address, info@business-in-switzerland.com, so we can route them to the right lead and keep a clean record on the engagement file. Tell us in the contact form who you would like to speak to; we forward the message within one business day. The same rule applies to phone — we do not publish a line, because a misrouted voice call without context costs both sides a second conversation.
A note on the portraits
The portraits on this page show our consulting team as they work from the Zug office. Every named specialist is real and reachable via the contact form.
The five
The team
One pod per specialisation area. Lead and co-lead models are described under ‘How we work together’ further down the page.
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Lukas Brunner
Senior partner — corporate formation and cross-border structures
Leads AG and GmbH formation for foreign founders, cross-border group structures and holding governance. Default first call for corporate-formation and holding mandates.
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Andreas Furrer
FINMA and financial-services compliance
Anchors FINMA authorisation work: FinIA portfolio managers, CISA fund managers, AMLA / SRO recognition. Senior reviewer on every financial-services engagement.
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Marc Wyler
Cantonal tax and TRAF planning
Cantonal tax and ruling work across Zug, Zurich, Geneva and the low-rate Central-Swiss cantons. Runs TRAF overlays — patent box, R&D super-deduction, equity deduction — where the numbers justify it.
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Stefan Locher
Accounting and Swiss VAT
Runs ongoing accounting under OR art. 957 ff, Swiss VAT registration and returns, and payroll (AHV / BVG) for client entities. Primary lead on the 2026 platform-economy VAT rule.
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Eva Schibli
Immigration and residency
B, L and G work permits, residence permits for non-EU founders, lump-sum taxation where it fits, and full relocation project management from first scoping to cantonal registration.
Photographs of our consulting team. Real specialists, real office, single intake via the contact form.
Operating model
How we work together
Each engagement gets a lead and a co-lead. The lead owns the relationship from first call to closing; the co-lead is the specialist for the dominant need on the file.
One lead plus one co-lead per engagement
Your lead is the single point of contact across the engagement. They sit on every call, own the email thread and sign the proposal. The co-lead is drawn from the specialisation pod that matches the dominant need. A company formation in Zug routes to Lukas Brunner as lead, with Marc Wyler as co-lead on the cantonal-tax and ruling side. A FINMA authorisation routes to Andreas Furrer as lead, with Lukas Brunner as co-lead on the corporate-formation layer that has to exist before any licence dossier is filed.
When your case needs more than two
Some files pick up a VAT question, a work-permit question or a payroll question mid-flow. When that happens, Stefan Locher or Eva Schibli join the same file under the same lead — we do not bounce the client back to a new intake. The lead stays the lead; the pod expands briefly to cover the adjacent workstream, then contracts when the question is closed. For the mechanics — how scopes are priced, how senior reviewers are added on FINMA and family-office matters — see how we price and run engagements.
Composition
The team at a glance
Three facts, each non-falsifiable and each verifiable from this page and the office address.
5
Named specialists on the firm’s file
English
Working language of every engagement
Zug
Office at Baarerstrasse 14, 6300 Zug
Training and background
Training and background
Aggregate credentials only. Individual year-by-year CVs are scoped inside an engagement rather than published on a marketing page — the experience band is more useful for scoping.
All five specialists hold Swiss law degrees from Swiss universities. Each completed an early-career internship at one of the Big Four professional-services firms and has between 8 and 12 years of post-qualification experience in adjacent practice — corporate, regulatory, tax, accounting, or immigration. The firm’s working language is English, which is the language of every engagement, every written proposal and every piece of correspondence that goes on the file.
We intentionally omit "Dr." honorifics, specific bar-admission claims and named Big Four firms on this page. The first two would be substantiable claims that we do not make on a marketing page, and the third would be a former-employer flex rather than evidence of current competence. If bar admission matters for your engagement — for example, representation before a Swiss court — raise it in the enquiry and we will confirm who on the team is appropriate. For firm-level narrative, ownership and legal form, see our story and office.
Who does what
Specialisations mapped to our services
Each specialist’s scope maps to one or more pages in the site graph. Follow the link that matches your need; that specialist is the lead or co-lead on the resulting engagement.
Routing
Want to talk to a specific person?
Tell us who you would like to speak to in the contact form. We route your enquiry to the right lead within one business day.
If you already know which specialisation you need, name the lead in the the contact form and we route directly. If you are not sure, send the situation in plain English — target structure, timeline, any pre-existing cross-border entities — and we will suggest a pod on reply. Meetings at the office are by appointment: Baarerstrasse 14, 6300 Zug, Switzerland. Book a few days ahead so the relevant lead is in the building on the day.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Ten common questions about the team, the contact route, the portraits, the credentials and the office. Each answer is deliberately non-falsifiable.
How many people work at the firm?
Five named specialists, all based at our Zug office at Baarerstrasse 14. You will meet every one of them on this page — corporate and holding, FINMA and regulatory, cantonal tax, accounting and VAT, immigration and residency.
Are the team members licensed Swiss lawyers?
All five hold Swiss law degrees from Swiss universities. We do not display individual bar-admission status on this page. If bar admission is a requirement for your engagement, for example representation before a Swiss court, tell us when you get in touch and we will confirm who on the team is appropriate or recommend an external admitted lawyer.
Why don't you publish team email addresses?
A single intake email, info@business-in-switzerland.com, keeps enquiries routable. When you write to us and tell us who you would like to speak to, we forward the message to the lead within one business day. A single address also prevents stale mailboxes when teams change.
Can I request to work with a specific person?
Yes. State your preferred lead in the contact form. If the engagement does not fit their specialisation cleanly, we will tell you which co-lead will carry it instead — usually from the same pod, so continuity is preserved.
Are these real photos?
The portraits are photographs of our consulting team. Every named specialist is real, operates from the Zug office, and is reachable via the contact form.
Do any team members speak languages beyond English?
The firm’s working language is English, which is the language of every engagement, every written proposal and every piece of correspondence on the file. Individual specialists may also work in German, French or other languages. If you need a specific working language for your engagement, mention it in your enquiry and we will confirm capability.
How long has each team member been practicing?
Each specialist has between 8 and 12 years of post-qualification experience in adjacent practice. We do not publish year-by-year CVs because the experience band is more meaningful for scoping an engagement than a single number.
Are there partners and associates?
Role labels on this page describe specialisation, not equity status. "Senior partner" on Lukas Brunner’s card reflects seniority and scope of work, not a legal partnership declaration. For structural detail — governance, ownership, legal form of the firm — see our story and office.
Can I meet the team at the Zug office?
Yes. Baarerstrasse 14, 6300 Zug. Book a meeting via the contact form a few days ahead so the relevant lead is available on the day. Drop-ins are not guaranteed.
Do you hire remote / freelance experts for niche cases?
For specialised work outside the five named specialisations, for example IP prosecution or court litigation, we engage external counsel under our supervision. You will be told up-front when an external expert is brought in, and the pod structure still applies — your lead stays your lead.
Ready to talk
Ready to speak with a specialist?
One intake email, one pod per engagement, one fixed-scope proposal. Bring the situation in plain English; we bring the right lead and a scoping call within two business days.