Mirjam has profound legal knowledge and extensive practical experience in connection with advising and representing high net worth individuals, families and family offices in the areas of inheritance law, private wealth and estate planning as well as implementing the division of estates.

Due to her many years of practice and expertise in the areas of M&A, corporate, commercial and contract law, her practice includes advising on and implementing corporate and business successions, family and corporate governance as well as reorganizations of private companies and family-owned businesses.

Mirjam regularly advises and represents foundations and members of the board of foundations, e.g. on topics in connection with governance, reorganization, or civil and regulatory liability issues. She chairs a Swiss charitable foundation.

Mirjam represents her clients in related proceedings before courts, supervisory and administrative authorities. In pre-litigation strategies, she also considers options for alternative dispute resolutions.

Selected examples of her work:

• Advising and representing heirs, communities of heirs or executors in the administration and settlement of complex estates (e.g. with companies and/or assets in different jurisdictions and/or cross-border matters) in the unbundling and division of estates considering inheritance, property and corporate law issues and in the implementation of the division of the estates.
• Advising and representing Swiss and foreign ultra-high and high net worth individuals and their companies in private wealth and estate planning (e.g. marriage and inheritance contracts, wills, transfer of assets to the next generation, cohabitation contracts) as well as in matters of adult protection law (e.g. advance directives and living wills), in particular in complex asset and family relationships.
• Advising and representing individuals and their companies in connection with the sale and purchase of shares or assets of a company, with  mergers, demergers,  asset transfers and liquidations of companies
• Advising and representing entrepreneurs, shareholders, boards of directors and companies in the area of national and cross-border corporate, commercial and contract law as well as in the legal structuring of the organization and corporate governance, including advice on shareholders’ agreements and shareholder loans.
• Advising and representing foundations, members of the board of foundations, and administrators on all aspects of foundation law (e.g. setting up foundations, amendments to foundation deeds, liquidations, development and implementation of new governance structures, liability issues, regulatory requirements, etc.).