Caputo & Partners AG

Your best Tax Attorney & Financial Lawyer in Switzerland

International Boutique Law Firm will solve your global Tax, Banking and Business Problems – Even in Difficult Cases

We act across Borders, Time Zones and Cultures!

Your battle-proven lawyer defending your interests in Switzerland – international boutique law firm in Zurich will solve your tax, banking and business problem cases in Switzerland and abroad. We are fast and creative in finding solutions – Even in seemingly hopeless cases.

You feel uncomfortable with your Swiss bank account?
Are you looking for support for your business in Switzerland?
Do you have disputes with your Swiss bank or are you in disagreement?
Would you like to have your documents reviewed before meeting the bank?
Do you have a secret bank account? Do you need fast tax help?
Your bank does not speak plain English. It comes up with various excuses and lies.
They demand your signature on documents you do not understand the content?

Pay Attention! You are in danger! Do not go alone to the bank and hope for a solution from them. They are no longer your friends. Limit your damages and call us immediately.

We accompany you to the bank today. We negotiate directly at the table with the bank director. Together with us, we are going to discuss with same weapons with the private bank (also with the prosecutor, if necessary).

Our Story

In 2006, he founded the boutique Law Firm, Caputo & Partners. Immediately, he started with the interpretation of the federal court decision on the retrocessions. Together with Professor Daniel Fischer, he was the first to publish a study on retrocessions in private banking in the business paper “Finanz & Wirtschaft”: “Tickende Zeitbombe Retrozessionen”. With Professor Daniel Fischer, he defended the interests of many investors towards banks, funds and asset managers for the purpose of reimbursing hidden retrocessions.

Whenever possible, he avoids costly and nerve-wracking litigation in court. Rather, he seeks the immediate personal conversation with the directors of the bank. A quick and fair comparison is the goal. The customer should get his money quickly. A payment rendered promptly is worth twice as much. The high value of an immediate payment was well-known to the old Roman lawyers. Here the Latin phrase: “Bis Dat Qui Cito Dat.” (Publilius Syrus, sententiae 64)

Swiss banks fear reputational damage as a result of the adverse press. They avoid the media like the plague. In press inquiries, they wrap themselves up in silence. They cleverly avoid exposing themselves to the media. Nevertheless, the banks are mentioned almost daily in the media. Therefore, the banks want to do everything quickly and discreetly – if possible without media coverage.

Many Swiss banks know that Enzo Caputo, as an international lawyer in Switzerland, maintains good contacts with the media. If the value in dispute does not amount to tens of millions, good results can be achieved relatively quickly in a personal conversation with the bank. Results that other lawyers who go to court can only dream of.

Arguments attacking the reputation of the Swiss bank can produce better results for the client in the negotiations with the bank at the end of the day than just legal arguments.

“If you have a problem with your Swiss bank, you must know that from now on the bank no longer acts as a friend and helper. Rather, the bank (and the banker) now tries to get away without harm. Every mistake is categorically denied. The customer is sent to the desert or otherwise dropped. Sometimes the bank even says goodbye to its own employees. The customer often notices the bank’s adverse behaviour very late – too late.”

Traditional character values such as loyalty, friendship, or even a word of honour have no place in the hard-hitting banking business. When Oswald Grübel, former CEO of UBS, was asked what he thought about career and loyalty in banking, he said, “If you’re looking for loyalty, buy yourself a dog.” He wanted to say that anyone who wants to succeed in banking and make a career is acting without consideration for others and has to put on a thick coat.

Only what is immortalized in writing and legally binding counts in a dispute with the bank. You can’t build on verbal assurances and agreements. In banking, the old legal maxim from the inquisition processes in the Middle Ages applies: “Quod non est in actis non est in mundo” (What does not stand in the files, does not exist). When it comes to money, hard-fought bandages (the term “hard bandages” is characteristically derived from the boxing match) are fought for regardless of casualties.

It is bargained hard. The bank has an easy game if the customer wants to solve his problem alone. An accomplished banker or even a banking lawyer effortlessly pushs the customer into the corner, as his knowledge advantage over the customer is enormous. In such a situation, how can the customer assert himself efficiently on equal terms with equal weapons? No chance, if he wants to solve his problem alone. It’s a mission impossible.

Frequently, the unlimited trust of the foreign client in the Swiss bank is exploited. Many foreigners are of the opinion that all Swiss people in Switzerland behave correctly. Many private bankers calmed their customers by saying that bank secrecy will never die out. They feared to lose their customers. Nevertheless, many bankers have lied to their clients until the last moment of bank secrecy in order to delay account balancing as much as possible. They exactly knew that banking secrecy could not be defended for much longer. When the customer wanted to close his account after the abolition of banking secrecy and insisted on a cash payment, he was denied this. Some of these customers were even insulted as “scoundrels”. There are also black sheep in Switzerland, as everywhere. Not infrequently, bank customers sign contract documents or important statements (for example, risk information on the risks in securities trading) without reading or understanding them. That can take bitter revenge.

Address: Talstrasse 20, 8001 Zürich, Switzerland

Phone: +41 43 508 24 59