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Company law

  • Incorporation of public limited companies, limited liability companies, cooperatives and foundations (including articles of association)
  • Capital increases and reductions
  • Changes to the Articles of Association
  • Mergers, demergers, transformations and asset transfers
  • Share transfers
  • Seat transfers, in Geneva, Switzerland and abroad
  • Company dissolutions and liquidations

Real estate law

  • Promises of sale, sales, forward sales, divisions, exchanges, emption agreements
  • Creation of mortgage notes and mortgages, mortgage increases, mortgage modifications
  • Gifts of real estate
  • Divisions, reunions, parcel transfers, parcel reshuffles
  • Creating, modifying and cancelling easements
  • Creation, modification and cancellation of building rights
  • Transfers to condominiums, modifications to condominiums
  • Declarations and advice on real estate income tax, requests for reinvestment
  • Approaches to the various authorities, in particular LDTR, CFA, LFAIE

Matrimonial & family law

  • Separation of property contracts
  • Community of property contracts
  • Adaptation of the regime of participation in acquests
  • Mandates for incapacity
  • Advance directives
  • Gifts of movable property

Inheritance law

  • Holographic and public wills and inheritance agreements
  • Custody of holograph wills
  • Execution of wills
  • Liquidation of estates
  • Estate declarations
  • Estate inventories
  • Inheritance division
  • Certificate of inheritance
  • Acts of notoriety
  • Formalities with the central register of wills

Document authentication

  • Legalisation of signatures, with or without certificates of authority
  • Certified copies
  • Notarial attestations
  • Patent powers of attorney

Other

  • Deeds of Surety
  • Proxies

VINCENT BENMABROUK

Legal

  • Master's degree in business law, University of Geneva
  • Former jurist responsible for examining notarial deeds at the Commercial Register

Languages: French and English

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Ornella Chudzinski

Legal

  • Master's degree in civil and criminal law, University of Geneva
  • Former lawyer in charge of examining notarial deeds at the Land Registry from 2013 to 2018


Languages: French, English and Portuguese

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Laetitia Bellisario

Legal

  • Law degree from the University of Geneva


Languages: French and German

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Françoise Amy

Legal

  • Law degree from the University of Geneva
  • Former member of the Federal Commission of Experts on the Commercial Register
  • Former substitute for the Registrar of Commerce of Geneva


Languages: French and Italian

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Sandrine Chatelanat

Associate

Associate since 2023

  • Law degree from the University of Geneva
  • Notary's certificate holders in 2019
  • Member of the legal commission of the chamber of notaries


Languages: French and English

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MARIELLA VALLERY-SPAETHE

Associate

Partner since 2008
  • Law degree from the University of Geneva
  • Certified notary in 2001
  • Custodian of the minutes of Me Pierre Lacroix and Me Philibert Lacroix
  • Member of the Commission de relation avec les administrations de la Chambre des Notaires, of the Commission de prospective, and of the Commission d'examens des notaires

Languages : french and english

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David Lacin

Associate

Partner since 2006

  • Law degree from the University of Fribourg
  • Certified notary in 2005
  • Keeper of the minutes (deeds) of Me Jean-Daniel Poncet
  • Former Chairman of the Tax Commission of the Chamber of Notaries
  • Former member of the Training Committee
  • Former member of the notaries' examination board
  • Member of the Committee for relations with the Cantonal Tax Administration 

Languages: French and English

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