Resolving complex situations and exploring new perspectives with our clients.
Uniting two teams, becoming one law Firm
In 2016, the teams of two French-speaking law firms combined their strengths to create OBERSON ABELS.
Formed by Oberson Avocats, a firm with over 50 years of highly-specialised tax experience, and ABELS – an established structure bringing together experts in business law – the creation of OBERSON ABELS was formed to anticipate changes in the legal profession. More specifically, the removal of the boundary between tax law and other legal specialisations to meet increasingly cross-disciplinary needs.
The Firm today
Today, OBERSON ABELS is a Swiss law firm with offices in four French-speaking cantons: Geneva, Lausanne, Sion and Neuchâtel.
We have over 80 employees, more than half of whom are lawyers. Together, we advise clients in all official Swiss languages, as well as in English, Russian, Spanish, Polish, Portuguese, and Romanian. With their varied backgrounds, our experts have in-depth knowledge of cantonal and federal public administrations, courts, the private sector, and academia, all of which are considerable assets for our clients. As we have grown, so too has our extensive network of correspondents throughout Switzerland and internationally.
The best of both worlds
We offer our clients the bespoke advice and assistance they expect from a ’boutique’ law firm with an exceptional level of quality provided by large-scale firms.
An academic dimension
We distinguish ourselves by the commitment of our teams to higher education, which enriches our expertise and legal approach. As active professors and lecturers at prestigious Swiss institutions, our lawyers bring in-depth knowledge, excellence, and intellectual rigour to every case. Their dual role as practitioners and teachers enables them to contribute to, and remain at, the cutting edge of legal developments. This synergy between theory and practice guarantees our clients innovative solutions based on in-depth reflection, grounded by real-world thinking.
