On May 29, 2017, the Chairman of the Geneva Bar Association launched a project involving the creation of Specialized Committees.

Each Specialized Committee will regroup the specialists in a given field of law. The purpose of this project is to allow participants to improve their know-how through exchanges of practical experiences and review of upcoming legislative changes. In addition, the collegial relationship among lawyers active in the same field of law is to be fostered. This is, also, in the interest of clients, as it aims at improving the efficient completion of client assignments.

OBERSON ABELS is heavily involved in this project. Stefan Eberhard has been appointed to chair the Specialized Committee on corporate law. Philipp Fischer will chair the Specialized Committee on banking law.

OBERSON ABELS was designated as the best law firm in Switzerland in the field of tax law according to the survey recently published by Le Temps and Bilanz. OBERSON ABELS is also highly regarded for its leading services in commercial law, in particular in the fields of M&A, private equity & venture capital, corporate law and contract law, as well as compliance, banking and capital market.

We are delighted by this acknowledgement at our clients' service !

OBERSON ABELS is very pleased to announce that its Lausanne office has moved to Avenue de la Gare 12A on April 24, 2017

We are looking forward to seeing you in our brand new Lausanne office !

We are pleased to announce that OBERSON ABELS, after only one year of existence, has been recognized as a leading firm in Switzerland for tax, corporate, M&A and banking & finance law by the leading professional directory Chambers.

Several of its partners have been distinguished as leading individuals in their fields: Xavier Oberson, Pierre-Marie Glauser, Frédéric Vuilleumier and Jérôme Meyer for tax law; Sébastien Bettschart and Stefan Eberhard for corporate and M&A; Antoine Amiguet for investment funds. In addition, Philipp Fischer has been recognized as an "Up and Coming Individual" for banking & finance.

Additional information:

www.chambersandpartners.com/Europe/firm/114707/oberson-abels-sa
www.chambersandpartners.com/Global/firm/114707/oberson-abels-sa

Prof. Xavier Oberson has given the opening lecture of the Spring Semester at the University of Geneva.

The development of artificial intelligence has a tremendous impact on all aspects of our daily life and work.

Robots are gradually replacing humans in certain sectors of the industry. This has an impact on the labor market, but also on the related tax and social security revenues.

In parallel, the need for additional state revenues to support the growing number of unemployed human workers increases.

Taxing robots could be a solution. This is the proposal made by Xavier Oberson.

In his view, the creation of an independent legal personality for robots could pave the way for taxing robots. In his presentation, he outlined the fundamental legal, economic and ethical questions raised by this proposal. He also discussed the implementation difficulties which will have to be addressed should such a new tax personality be recognized.

Xavier Oberson is Professor of Swiss and International Tax Law at the University of Geneva and Chairman of OBERSON ABELS. He is also the founder and director of the LL.M. Tax at the University of Geneva.

Geneviève Page studied law at the University of Lausanne. She then worked for several years in the tax department of an international accounting firm, for Oberson Avocats from 2004 to 2016 and for Oberson Abels SA since February 2016. Admitted as a certified tax expert in 2006, she was also admitted to the bar in 2014. In parallel with her activity as a lawyer, Geneviève Page teaches in several university programs, in particular within the CAS Finance et Comptabilité of the Lausanne University, the LLM Tax of the Geneva University and the AISTS MAS in Sport Administration. She gives also regularly lectures, in particular with the OREF whose she is the president of the seminar’s committee.

Her areas of expertise include Swiss and international taxation. She advises both private clients (asset reorganizations, expatriates, lump-sum taxation, taxation of artists and sportsmen) and institutions (restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, employee participation plan). She also specializes in the taxation of second pilar and insurances. Geneviève Page regularly intervenes in the negotiations with the tax authorities and in litigation before the courts.