Real Estate & Construction

Walder Wyss has built up a considerable reputation as a specialist in the real estate and construction sectors over the course of many years.

Our Real Estate & Construction team includes lawyers [many with a background in both real estate and economics], notaries and tax experts. The team boasts a broad professional network and is one of the largest in Switzerland, allowing us to provide support in highly complex real estate transactions and site development projects – prioritising efficiency and maintaining a holistic perspective at every stage. We work with our clients to develop solutions which create added value and implement them using interdisciplinary project teams as and when required.

We specialise in providing institutional and private investors with advice in matters concerning public and private law and tax issues related to the real estate sector.

We also advise clients from around the world in disputes arising from construction, infrastructure and engineering projects, and act as counsel before international arbitral tribunals, national courts, dispute boards and mediators.

  • "Expert team with a strong track record Switzerland wide."
    The Legal 500

Defective Rainwater Drainage System Despite the Municipality's Responsibility for Renovation

| by Argyrios Lygeros, Dario Galli and Markus Vischer | in: dRSK (Digitaler Rechtsprechungs-Kommentar)

Decision-Making in Condominium Owners' Associations with Sub-Communities – Potential Complications and Possible Solutions

| by Nadja D. Leuthardt | in: BC/DC 3/2026 | pp. 124-128

First learnings with the new construction defects legislation

| Speaker André Kuhn

Interpretation of an Asset Transfer Agreement under the Swiss Merger Act

| by Bilva Abhyankar, Dario Galli and Markus Vischer | in: dRSK (Digitaler Rechtsprechungs-Kommentar)

Rechtsgeschäftliche Untergemeinschaften im Stockwerkeigentum: Situation de lege lata und Ausblick de lege ferenda unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Haftungsthematik und der Bedeutung von Vorschussleistungen

by Nadja D. Leuthardt | SJZ 121/2025, S. 443 ff.