Thomas Meister

Thomas Meister

Partner
Dr. iur., LL.M., Attorney at Law, Certified Tax Expert

Location

Zurich

Contact

Direct phone: +41 58 658 55 73
thomas.meister@walderwyss.com

Curriculum Vitae

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Areas of activity: Real Estate & Construction Tax

Thomas Meister is a partner in the Tax Team. He is working in the fields of domestic and international corporate tax, including tax optimization, corporate and real estate finance, structured finance, corporate reorganizations, transaction structuring and M&A. Since 2004 he is an adjunct professor for tax law at the University of St. Gall.

Born in 1963, Thomas Meister was educated at the Universities of Lausanne and St. Gall (lic. iur. 1989, Dr. iur. 1995), New York University (LL.M. 1998), and graduated as certified tax expert (1996). For his doctoral thesis he received the 1995 Blumenstein Award. He has working experience as trainee in a Zurich law firm and District Court clerk, general secretary at the Zurich Revenue Service, tax associate in Zurich, Geneva and Washington D.C. law firms and tax partner in a Zurich law firm.

Thomas Meister speaks German, English and French. He is registered with the Zurich Bar Registry and also admitted in New York.

Doing Business in Switzerland – A Practical Guide

| by Ramona Wyss, Andrea Haefeli, Gion Giger, David Vasella, Davide Cerutti, Marco Galli, Roger Staub, Manuel Bigler, Reto Jacobs, Monique Sturny, Thomas P. Müller, Nadja D. Leuthardt, Adriano Antonietti, Valentine Schnyder, Stefan Knobloch, Dimitrios Berger, Dominik Hohler, Letizia Schlegel, Stéphanie Oneyser, Urs P. Gnos, Dario Galli, Michael Kündig, Markus Vischer, Urs Schenker, Christian A. Schmid, Patrick W. Vogel, Alexander Sorton, Samuel Lieberherr, Daniel Dedeyan, Nico Bernhard, Theodor Härtsch, Tervel Stoyanov, Lukas Wyss, Markus Pfenninger, Valentin Wiesner, Rafal Szala, Thiemo Sturny, Roger Ammann, Hubertus Hillerström, Ken Savioz, Simone Wetzstein, Valentina Eichin, Irène Suter-Sieber, Olivier Sigg, Laura Luongo, Francis Nordmann, André Kuhn, Davide Jermini, Christian Eichenberger, Matthieu Seydoux, Thomas Meister, Janine Corti, Robert Desax, Fabienne Limacher, Dieter Hofmann, Rodolphe Gautier, Roxane Allot, Micha Bühler, Michael Feit, Maurice Courvoisier, Oliver M. Kunz and Pascale Köster | Editor[s]: Urs P. Gnos, Theodor Härtsch | ed.: 2nd edition

The Securitisation Law Review - Chapter 10 Switzerland

| by Johannes A. Bürgi, Thomas Meister and Roger Ammann | Law Business Research Ltd | London, UK | "The Law Reviews" | ed.: 4th edition

The Securitisation Law Review - Chapter 10 Switzerland

| by Roger Ammann, Johannes A. Bürgi and Thomas Meister | in: Michael Urschel (Editor[s]) | "Law Business Research Ltd" | London, UK

Doing Business in Switzerland – A Practical Guide

| by Urs P. Gnos, Theodor Härtsch, Ramona Wyss, Andrea Haefeli, Gion Giger, David Vasella, Davide Cerutti, Marco Galli, Roger Staub, Benno Fischer-Siddiqui, Reto Jacobs, Monique Sturny, Thomas P. Müller, Nadja D. Leuthardt, Adriano Antonietti, Valentine Schnyder, Stefan Knobloch, Dimitrios Berger, Dominik Hohler, Jenny Süess, Stéphanie Oneyser, Dario Galli, Michael Kündig, Markus Vischer, Urs Schenker, Rafael Zemp, Patrick W. Vogel, Laurent Schmidt, Christian Lütolf, Daniel Dedeyan, Nico Bernhard, Tervel Stoyanov, Lukas Wyss, Markus Pfenninger, Valentin Wiesner, Rafal Szala, Thiemo Sturny, Roger Ammann, Hubertus Hillerström, Ken Savioz, Ueli Sommer, Simone Wetzstein, Christoph Stutz, Nadine Mäder, Olivier Sigg, Laura Luongo, Francis Nordmann, André Kuhn, Davide Jermini, Christian Eichenberger, Théo Meylan, Thomas Meister, Janine Corti, Robert Desax, Fabienne Limacher, Dieter Hofmann, Rodolphe Gautier, Olivia Sistovaris, Micha Bühler, Michael Feit, Maurice Courvoisier, Oliver M. Kunz, Albane de Ziegler and Pascale Köster | Editor[s]: Urs P. Gnos, Theodor Härtsch

Squeeze-out of minority shareholders in Swiss companies

| by Urs P. Gnos and Thomas Meister | in: ALM Media Properties, LLC. (Editor[s]) | "American Lawyer (ALM)" | USA

Recently implemented tax regulation to stimulate the Swiss bond market

| by Johannes A. Bürgi [co-author], Thomas Meister [co-author] and Thomas Müller [co-author] | in: European Tax Service 01/2013

New tax regulation to stimulate the Swiss bond market

| by Johannes A. Bürgi [co-author], Thomas Meister [co-author] and Thomas Müller [co-author] | in: "The Euromoney International Debt Capital Markets Handbook 2012" | pp. 28–32

Securitisation transactions in Switzerland are making a comeback

| by Johannes A. Bürgi [co-author], Thomas Meister [co-author] and Thomas Müller [co-author] | in: "The Euromoney Securitisation & Structured Finance Handbook 2011/12"

Switzerland – Redomiciliations into Switzerland from a Swiss corporate and tax perspective

| by Urs P. Gnos [co-author], Thomas Meister [co-author] and Luc Defferrard [co-author] | in: "Euromoney Yearbooks: International Mergers & Acquisitions Review" | Colchester | pp. 184–188

Cross Border Financing: The Basics and the new Landscape

| by Thomas Meister, Kevin M. Keyes [co-author], Stale R. Kristiansen [co-author], Kimberly S. Blanchard [co-author], Andreas Risi [co-author], Patrick Mears [co-author] and Clemens P. Schindler [co-author] | in: "Tax Planning Strategies US and Europe" | Copenhagen

Switzerland – Squeeze-out of minority shareholders in listed companies

| by Luc Defferrard [co-author], Urs P. Gnos [co-author] and Thomas Meister [co-author] | in: "Euromoney Yearbooks: International Mergers & Acquisitions Review" | Colchester

Haftung im Steuerrecht

| Speaker Thomas Meister | Treuhandkammer Seminar | Zurich

Tax Planning in M&A Transactions - Loopholes & Pitfalls

| Speaker Thomas Meister | ACC M&A Seminar | Zurich

Commentary to Art. 671–674, 725–725a of the Swiss Code of Obligations

| by Thomas Meister | in: Handkommentar Schweizerisches Obligationenrecht

Structured Finance and Securitisation 2009/10: Switzerland

| by Thomas Meister [co-author] | in: "A multi-jurisdictional guide to structured finance and securitisation"

Alternative Financing Sources in Switzerland

| by Thomas Meister [co-author], Johannes A. Bürgi [co-author] and Lukas Wyss [co-author] | in: "IFLR Financial Crisis Guide 2009"

Haftung im Steuerrecht

| Speaker Thomas Meister | Treuhandkammer Seminar | Zurich

Cross-Border Mergers and Reorganizations

| Speaker Thomas Meister | IFA Swiss-Italian Branch Meeting | Stresa

An overview of securitisation in Switzerland

| by Thomas Meister [co-author], Johannes A. Bürgi [co-author] and Evan Spangler [co-author] | in: "Euromoney Yearbooks: Global Securitisation Review 2008/2009"

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