Notary Services

The geographical location of our Notary Practice Team is Basel, but we operate throughout Switzerland. In the Canton of Schwyz, we also offer notarial services with a self-employed notary public. Several of our lawyers are also active as self-employed notaries and have extensive knowledge and many years of experience. We advise and notarize corporate transactions and resolutions as well as contracts in property, family, inheritance, corporate and foundation law. Another area of expertise is company and business acquisitions, mergers and other business transactions – also according to German transformation, corporate, contract, marital property and inheritance law. The areas in which Wenger Plattner has extensive experience and capacity include:

Notarizations of real estate transactions in the Canton of Basel-Stadt

Sale, acquisition, and structuring of real estate (such as division into co-ownership or condominium ownership, building rights contracts and other easements) as well as real estate financing (mortgage transactions).

Notarizations for companies Switzerland-wide

Formation of corporations and limited liability companies, capital increases and decreases, amendments to articles of association, restructuring of companies (mergers and demergers, transformations , transfer of assets and liabilities) as well as business successions.

Transaction support (M&A)

Neutral party for transaction support, namely as a custodian for transaction documents (e.g., data room records) or as an escrow agent for payment processing.

Other notarizations and transactions

Wills, marriage and inheritance contracts, property agreements, advance care directives, foundations and enforceable deeds as well as executorships and inheritance divisions.

Notarizations for Germany (German foreign notarizations)

Our notaries in Basel have many years of experience in notarizing corporate-related transactions under German law: company acquisitions and financings (assignment and pledging of GmbH shares) as well as capital measures and other amendments to articles of association and transactions under the German Transformation Act; consent resolutions to corporate contracts; electronic applications to the German commercial register (including shareholder lists); wills and marriage and inheritance contracts.