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Specialist in planning and construction, real estate and the environment

Since 1987 we have been specialising in public and private construction law, planning law, real estate law, procurement law, compulsory purchase law and environmental law. Hofstetter Advokatur & Notariat AG, Certified Specialists SBA Construction and Real Estate Law, advises and acts for clients on the following:

Construction law

  • Building permit (objections and appeals, court proceedings)
  • Building outside the building zone
  • Drafting of building zoning regulations for communes
  • Advices for cantons on changes to planning and building laws
Planning law

  • Local planning, comprehensive revisions, rezoning
  • Legal advice and support for local planning
  • Special land-use planning procedure (development plans, design plans, neighborhood plans)
  • Special plans such as for gravel extraction and landfills, golf courses and other recreational facilities, roads, rail, shopping centers, airport and airfields
  • Hazard zones
  • Value-added tax equalization
  • Access development of building zones
Space and project development

  • Consulting and support for site and project developments (clusters, infrastructure constructions, large-scale developments, projects of national and international companies)
Expropriation law

  • Material and formal expropriations under cantonal expropriation law and under the Federal expropriation law (objection procedure, court proceedings, proceedings before the valuation commission), in particular concerning cantonal roads, municipal roads, national roads, SBB, infrastructure structures and other federal works
Environment law

  • Noise, air pollution, contaminated sites
  • Pipeline systems, major accident prevention
  • Environmental impact assessment
Forest law and water protection law

  • Forest projects, deforestation, derogations
  • Flood protection, groundwater protection zones
Nature and heritage protection law / monument protection law

  • Monument preservation and protection of heritage sites
  • Protection of nature and landscape
Environmental criminal law, construction criminal law

  • Environmental criminal proceedings
  • Construction criminal law and building without a permit
Expertises and activities concerning arbitration

  • Legal reports and expertises
  • Second opinions and risk analysis

On our Blog you will find articles, analyses of Federal Court decisions, legislative updates, publications and presentations on current legal topics.

Contacts 

Urs Hofstetter-Arnet, Partner

lic. iur. Attorney at Law, Certified Specialist SBA Construction and Real Estate Law

Domino Hofstetter, Partner

MLaw, Attorney at Law and Notary, Certified Specialist SBA Inheritance Law, Certified Specialist SBA Construction and Real Estate Law

Stefan Mundhaas, Partner

MLaw, Attorney at Law, CAS Environmental Law and Enforcement

Raoul Niederberger

MLaw, Attorney at Law

Denis Hofstetter

DAS Mediation, Mediator SKWM, Managing Director

Leandra Ruoss-Kühne

MLaw, Attorney at Law

Daniela Odermatt

MLaw, Attorney at Law

André Bucher

MLaw, Attorney at Law

Silvio Fleischlin

MLaw, Attorney at Law