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Michael is a founding partner of Fischer Ramp Partner AG.
He advises private clients on their domestic and international estate, tax, social security and succession planning as well as on philanthropic projects and governance related questions. Michael has considerable expertise in dealing with tax authorities and advising foreign lawyers, and he is a recognised expert on the taxation of trusts and similar structures. Further, he acts on behalf of corporations, in particular family held companies and family offices, in domestic and cross-border matters.
Michael is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences and a regular contributor to tax journals and publications. He lectures international tax law at EXPERTsuisse where he heads the module International Tax.
He holds law degrees from the University of Zurich (lic. iur., 1999) and the London School of Economics (LL.M., 2003). He was admitted to the Zurich Bar in 2002 and qualified as a certified tax expert in 2010. Prior to co-founding Fischer Ramp Partner AG Michael spent 13 years as associate and partner in an international Swiss law firm in London (2003 to 2006) and in Zurich (from 2006).
The leading legal directories, including Chambers HNW (Band 1), Who’s Who Legal and BestLawyers, continuously rank him as a leader in the fields of Private Client and Tax. Since 2017 Michael has been listed in the Private Client Global Elite and since 2018 he has been included in the list of Who’s Who Legal’s Thought Leaders (“those who truly stand out as being leaders and who are held in the highest esteem by their clients and fellow practitioners“). In 2019 Michael was named “Leading Individual Adviser” at the Wealth Briefing Awards in Geneva.
Chambers quotes sources as saying that Michael is “absolutely on top of his game when it comes to Swiss tax“ (2016) and “when dealing with client issues he has not only a Swiss perspective but also an international perspective because he has worked in London, and he has a lot of clients with multi-asset class, multi-jurisdictional interests. If you wanted to pick somebody for a long-term relationship he definitely would be on the radar.” (2017)
Michael is a member of the Zurich Bar Association and the Swiss Bar Association. He is on the Steering Committee of the International Tax Specialist Group (ITSG), and he sits on the Committee of the Swiss arm of Philanthropy Impact.
His working languages are German, English and French.
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