Tax Advisers - Deloitte

Switzerland
Maja Bauer-Balmelli
Pestalozzi Lachenal Patry
Löwenstrasse 1
8001 Zürich
Switzerland
Tel: (41) 44 217 91 11
Fax: (41) 44 217 92 17
Email: maja.bauer-balmelli@plplaw.ch
Website: www.plplaw.ch
Dr Bauer-Balmelli, a partner at Pestalozzi Lachenal Patry, specializes in corporate tax
law, international taxation, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring and
banking and financial market-related tax issues.
Maja Bauer-Balmelli graduated from University of St Gall (HSG) in 1984, was
admitted as a certified tax expert in 1990 and earned a doctorate in law in 2000 with
her thesis “The tax-claim safeguarding aspect of the federal withholding tax on income
from capital investments in Switzerland” from Zurich University. Before joining
Pestalozzi Lachenal Patry in 2002 she was a long-standing partner at Andersen.
She is a lecturer for 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 on international and corporate taxation, withholding taxes and
stamp taxes, as well as on various tax aspects specific to the finance market.
Dr Maja Bauer-Balmelli is 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.
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