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Mirjam Vögeli advises and represents high net worth individuals, families, and family offices in national and cross-border matters relating to inheritance law, private wealth and estate planning as well as the execution of the division of estates.

Due to her many years of practice and expertise in the areas of M&A, corporate, commercial and contract law, her practice includes corporate and business succession, family and corporate governance, and the reorganization of private companies and family-owned businesses.

Mirjam has extensive knowledge of foundation law and the law governing associations.

Experience

Mirjam has profound legal knowledge and extensive practical experience in connection with advising and representing high net worth individuals, families, and family offices in national and cross-boarder matters relating to inheritance law, private wealth and estate planning as well as the execution of the division of estates.

Due to her many years of practice and expertise in the areas of M&A, corporate, commercial and contract law, her practice includes advising on and implementing corporate and business succession, family and corporate governance, and the reorganization of private companies and family-owned businesses.

Mirjam regularly advises and represents foundations and members of the board of foundations on all aspects of foundation law, in particular on issues related to the establishment and setting up of a foundation as well as to governance and best practices, reorganizations, or civil and regulatory liability issues. She chairs a Swiss charitable foundation.

Mirjam represents her clients in related proceedings before courts, supervisory and administrative authorities. In pre-litigation strategies, she also considers alternative dispute resolution options.

Selected examples of her work:

  • Advising and representing heirs, communities of heirs or executors in the administration and settlement of complex estates (e.g. with companies and/or assets in different jurisdictions and/or cross-border matters) in the unbundling and division of estates considering inheritance, property and corporate law issues and in the implementation of the division of the estates.
  • Advising and representing Swiss and foreign ultra-high and high net worth individuals and their companies in private wealth and estate planning (e.g. marriage and inheritance contracts, wills, transfer of assets to the next generation, cohabitation contracts) as well as in matters of adult protection law (e.g. advance directives and living wills), in particular in complex asset and family relationships.
  • Advising and representing individuals and their companies in connection with the sale and purchase of shares or assets of a company, with  mergers, demergers,  asset transfers and liquidations of companies
  • Advising and representing entrepreneurs, shareholders, boards of directors and companies in the area of national and cross-border corporate, commercial and contract law as well as in the legal structuring of the organization and corporate governance, including advice on shareholders’ agreements and shareholder loans.
  • Advising and representing foundations, members of the board of foundations, and administrators on all aspects of foundation law (e.g. setting up foundations, amendments to foundation deeds, liquidations, development and implementation of new governance structures, liability issues, regulatory requirements, etc.).
2014 National University of Singapore School of Law, Singapore, LL.M. in Corporate and Financial Services Law; Faculty Graduate Scholarship
2010 Admitted to the Bar, Rechtsanwältin
2007 Universities of Zurich (Switzerland) and Leuven (Belgium), lic. iur.; magna cum laude
Chambers High Net Worth 2024
The Legal500 EMEA 2024 – Recommended
  • Association Internationale des Jeunes Avocats (AIJA); Vice-President of the AIJA International Private Clients and Family Law Commission (since 2023); Member of the Executive Committee
  • ZAV Zurich Bar Association
  • SAV Swiss Bar Association
2023 Counsel, Niederer Kraft Frey
2016 Secondment, maxon motor ag, Sachseln OW
2016 Senior Associate, Niederer Kraft Frey
2014 Foreign Associate, Wong Partnership LLP, Singapore
2011 Associate, Niederer Kraft Frey
2008 Junior Associate, Niederer Kraft Frey
2007 Assistant to Prof. Dr. iur. Wolfgang Portmann, University of Zurich, in the fields of tort and employment law
2005 Assistant to Prof. Dr. iur. Hans Caspar von der Crone, University of Zurich, in the fields of general contract law

German

English

French

Market Perception

«Mirjam Vögeli has become a very prominent figure in Zurich’s private client sphere. She has vast capabilities in the fields of charities and succession planning. She is extremely efficient in handling complex multinational matters.»
Legal500 2024
«Mirjam Vögeli is a specialised private client lawyer that advises on inheritance, foundational, matrimonial and contract law. Mirjam is a highly professional and strives for excellence while still maintaining a pragmatic approach. As a result, her analysis and thoughts always include the socio-economic, ethical and financial aspects besides the law in casu.»
Legal500 2024
«Mirjam understands private clients and is able to navigate them through the uncertainties that the legal landscape has to offer.»
Legal500 2024
«I appreciate her experience but also pragmatism. She has a very customer-friendly attitude and is very responsive.»
Legal500 2024
«Mirjam Vögeli is very responsive and provides very helpful advice to clients.»
Chambers High Net Worth 2024
«Mirjam is very well connected and hard working.»
Chambers High Net Worth 2024

Events

06.07.2023

Liebe, Hochzeit und ein Todesfall – wie sich das Erbe planen lässt

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Firm News

05.09.2023

NKF represented with three lawyers in the AIJA Committee

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14.12.2022

NKF appoints three new partners and two new counsel

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Publications

01.02.2024

Die Erbunwürdigkeit – Ein schlummerndes Damoklesschwert? (The ineligibility to inherit – a dorman…

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30.09.2020

Die VegüV in Kollision mit ausländischem Arbeitsrecht

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15.02.2017

Rechtsfolgen einer mangelhaften Delegation von Geschäftsführungsaufgaben in einer Verantwortlichkeit…

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Speaking Engagements

19.03.2024

Surrogacy and Travel Bans

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01.11.2023

Die Erbunwürdigkeit (Unworthiness to inherit)

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29.09.2022

Die zivilrechtliche Haftung von Stiftungsorganen (the civil liability of foundation bodies)

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Newsletters & Alerts

03.05.2022

Inheritance law revision – Should I adapt an existing will or inheritance contract?

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03.05.2022

Erbrechtsrevision – Soll ich ein bestehendes Testament oder einen bestehenden Erbvertrag anpassen?

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