We offer you partnership-based cooperation at the highest professional level in our specialist areas:

Employment
Employer-employee relationships in private and public law employment relationships.

Renting, housing and construction
Legal aspects of housing and construction.

Heirs
Questions regarding inheritance and execution of wills.

Companies and associations
Corporate forms for various purposes.

And this too...
We know reliable partners with whom we ourselves work successfully.
 

I look forward to your contact.

Peter Krause, attorney at law

 

 

CV

University degree lic. iur, Zurich, 1995
District Court of Zurich, 1995 - 1996
Legal Advisor Tenants' Association, 1996 - 1998
Lawyer's license Canton of Zurich, 1998
Law firm Lenz & Staehelin, 1998 - 2003
Training Master of Laws (LL.M.), San Francisco, 2003
Founded law firm Krause Rechtsanwälte, 2004
Attorneys Krause & Janis, 2009 - 2019
Founded law firm Krause, 2019
Judge at Divisional Court 6, 1993 - 2005
Lecturer at University of Applied Sciences, 2005 - today

 

Work

Are you an employer or employee? With decades of experience, we are familiar with practically all problems that arise in an employer-employee relationship, both in private and public employment relationships. For example, we help with ambiguities or disputes regarding:

Employment contract and employment decree

Employee appraisal and reference

Competition ban and contractual penalty

Warning notice, probation period

Dismissal and termination agreement

Unemployment insurance

Of course, we can also advise you on the drafting of regulations, contracts, references or represent you in court.

 

Living and building

Are you a condominium owner, landlord or tenant? Or are you building? Would you like to clarify an urgent issue? Or are you already in the middle of a dispute and have been sued? We know practically every facet, human and legal, that can cause problems in housing and construction. For example, we are happy to help with:

• Rental relationship, conclusion of contract or termination
• Buying a condominium, living in a community
• Adjustments to tenancy agreements, resolutions of the condominium community
• Easements such as rights of way, rights of passage or proximity
• Ground ownership
• Defects and damage during construction or during the lease
• Use and right of residence
• Dispute with the tradesman, dispute with the customer

We are independent, draw up contracts ourselves or check those of others; we advise on tensions in the contractual relationship between tenants and landlords or in the condominium community or if there is trouble during construction; and of course we also represent you in private and business negotiations and in court.

 

Heirs

Are you an heir or don't want to leave any ambiguities to your heirs? We advise and support you in all aspects of inheritance. Among other things, we help with questions relating to:

• Inheritance contract
• Distribution of the estate
• Settlement of the estate
• Will
• Execution of the will

We will work with you to find a pragmatic solution, but will of course also represent you in court and before the authorities.

 

Companies and associations

Would you like to set up or take over a company or acquire a stake in a company, or are you already a company owner? Are you a member or board member of an association? We advise and support you with the aim of finding the best solution in all aspects relating to the various company forms. We can help you with questions relating to associations. For example:

• Founding, type of company, advantages and disadvantages
• Who has a say? Shares and voting power
• Convening and chairing meetings, contesting resolutions
• Removal of a shareholder or partner
• Exclusion of a member of the association
• Shareholder agreement, shareholders' agreement and articles of association
• Buying and selling the company
• Problems with business customers

We draw up contracts ourselves and review those of others. We advise you when tensions arise and work with you to find suitable solutions. If things escalate anyway, we will of course represent you in negotiations and also in court.

 

We do that too

Do you have another concern? Just ask us! We know reliable service providers with whom we work successfully ourselves and who we are happy to recommend to you so that you can get help quickly.

Architect ETH for expert opinions on structural damage

Fiduciary company for accounting and general tax issues

Property company for the purchase and sale of properties and property management

Lawyer and tax expert for special issues and tax proceedings

Lawyers for separation and divorce, alimony, custody disputes

Lawyers for public planning and construction law and for large-scale construction site litigation

Lawyers for intellectual property law (copyright, trademark law)

Companies for software development

Consultants for companies, especially in the hospitality sector

Lawyers for representation in French-speaking Switzerland