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expat-services.ch lists 7 hand-checked English-speaking lawyers and notaries in Genève, including BARTH Avocats, Borel & Barbey, Gregorc, de Candolle & Arnbäck, Notaires and Könemann & von Flüe.
Besides English, they also work in French, German, Spanish and Italian. Every profile shows the services, languages and contact details, checked by hand before going live. See also Tax advisors in Genève.
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Geneva law firm handling employment disputes for employers and employees, including labour court proceedings, as well as family, real estate and criminal matters.
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Is this your business?Geneva law firm whose lawyers include a deputy judge at the Geneva Leases and Tenancy Tribunal; advice on rental, lease and real estate matters in French and English.
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Is this your business?Geneva private notary office handling property sales and mortgages, wills and marriage contracts, estates, company deeds, apostilles and signature certifications.
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Is this your business?Geneva practice for divorce, custody, maintenance and cross-border family matters, plus successions, employment and social insurance. English site.
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Is this your business?Geneva office of the Swiss business law firm MLL Legal; its real estate team covers rental law, with lawyers working in French, English and German.
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Is this your business?Geneva law firm (Menut Winiger Revelo) with a tenancy and lease practice; its lawyers practise in French, English and Spanish.
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Is this your business?Law firm in Lausanne and Geneva for individuals and businesses: divorce and family, employment, lease and real estate, traffic and debt collection. Lawyers speak six languages.
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Is this your business?Local facts
Geneva has no fixed number of notaries: about fifty work in some twenty private offices, appointed by the Council of State. Candidates must be Swiss, at least 25, hold a law degree, complete a traineeship of more than four years and pass a state examination. They are public officers without being state employees, and a supervisory commission named by the Council of State oversees them (Geneva Chamber of Notaries, checked ) (Geneva Chamber of Notaries, checked ).
The official tariff (REmNot) charges a property transfer deed 7 per mille of the value up to CHF 200,000 (minimum CHF 200), 6 per mille from CHF 200,001 to 400,000, 4.5 per mille from CHF 400,001 to 800,000 and 4 per mille up to CHF 1 million. The bill must list fees, honoraires and disbursements separately, and a dispute goes by simple letter to the clerk of the Tribunal de première instance, free of charge (REmNot E 6 05.03, checked ).
The Chamber of Notaries holds a Permanence at rue Verdaine 13 on Thursdays, with 30-minute consultations for CHF 60 and no appointment; it does not draw up deeds or legalise signatures (Geneva Chamber of Notaries, checked ). For use abroad, the OCPM legalises signatures and affixes the apostille for CHF 30 (Canton of Geneva, checked ). Employment disputes are heard by the Tribunal des prud’hommes, whose conciliation stage costs nothing and whose proceedings are free up to CHF 75,000 (Geneva judiciary, checked ).
Newcomers announce their arrival to the cantonal population and migration office (OCPM), route de Chancy 88 in Onex (ge.ch OCPM, checked ). Most procedures run online through an e-démarches account on ge.ch, and the counters open by appointment only. The deadline after arrival is 14 days (2026) (ge.ch arrival, checked ), and a first B or L permit costs an EU/EFTA adult CHF 65 (Canton of Geneva, checked ). The steps are in registering at your commune.
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