Biography: Corporate Tax

Dr Bauer-Balmelli, is a partner and the head of the tax group at Pestalozzi. She deals extensively with the complete range of corporate and individual taxation issues both in the international as well as the national context. This includes tax-planning advice relating to corporate re-organisations, real estate transactions, mergers and acquisitions, finance structures, financial instruments and private clients, as well as tax litigation.

Maja Bauer-Balmelli graduated from the University of St Gall (HSG) in 1984, she was admitted as a certified tax expert in 1990 and earned a doctorate in law in 2000 from Zurich University. Before joining Pestalozzi in 2002 she was a tax partner with one of the "Big Four". She is a lecturer in international tax law at the University of Zurich and a frequent speaker at tax conferences and technical tax training seminars and has authored various professional articles (including legal commentaries) on international and corporate taxation, withholding taxes and stamp taxes, tax aspects specific to the finance market, the taxation of trusts and special tax regimes for individuals.

Dr Maja Bauer-Balmelli was a member of the Swiss Takeover Board and used to serve for many years as a judge of the First Federal Tax Appeal Commission of the Canton of Zurich and as a member of the board of the Swiss Tax Academy.