Bloch-Riemer Ruth
Partner

Dr. Ruth Bloch-Riemer

Great on pensions.

Source in Chambers HNW 2021

Ruth Bloch-Riemer earns plaudits as "a highly respected private client practitioner in the Swiss Market" who is "widely known".

Who's Who Legal 2022

Ruth Bloch-Riemer is very capable on banking and financial products.

Legal 500, 2022

Ruth’s strengths are understanding client needs and putting client interests first, and leadership in leveraging the best experts to address client requests

Client in Chambers 2021

Ruth Bloch-Riemer is responsive and thorough in her analyses and very quickly gains the trust of her clients

Legal 500 2021

She is young, entrepreneurial and very impressive.

Chambers 2021

An ambitious and knowledgeable lawyer.

Source in Chambers HNW 2021

Great on pensions.

Source in Chambers HNW 2021

Ruth Bloch-Riemer earns plaudits as "a highly respected private client practitioner in the Swiss Market" who is "widely known".

Who's Who Legal 2022

About

Ruth Bloch-Riemer’s practice focuses on domestic and international tax law as well as pensions and social security law.

Ruth regularly advises Swiss and foreign high net worth individuals, families, entrepreneurs and family offices in all taxation and pension and social security matters. She is a trusted advisor to her clients and works on a strategic level to develop and accompany their structural goals as well as the implementation. She is highly experienced in leading project teams in transition phases of businesses, personal circumstances or between generations. Within this framework, she particularly advises clients with regard to wealth and succession planning, residence planning, the structuring of their business and entrepreneurial engagements as well as their charitable commitment. She also assists her clients in the context of the taxation of art. Besides the coordination of tax and private wealth matters, Ruth assists both HNWI and professionals on how to structure their professional activities from a pension and social security perspective to identify planning possibilities and implement solutions.

Ruth leads Bär & Karrer's pensions and social security practice. She has gained significant experience in a variety of business-related pension and social security areas such as pension questions within the context of M&A transactions and business transfers, complex cross-border social security coordination and the handling of pensions, social security and tax aspects around compensation and benefits packages for C-levels and board members. As a member of the steering committee of the International Pension and Employee Benefits Lawyers Association (IPEBLA), Ruth is actively involved in exchanging and further developing industry know how also on a cross-border level.
In her areas of practice, Ruth Bloch-Riemer supports clients both in the context of compliance work and non-contentious procedures where she has gained particular experience in complex compensation-related investigations and larger disclosure projects. Furthermore, she also supports clients in the context of litigation vis-à-vis domestic administrative and judicial authorities.

Ruth Bloch-Riemer regularly publishes, lectures and speaks at domestic and international conferences on tax, pensions and social security matters. She has, i.a., recently co-authored the relevant comprehensive commentaries on inheritance and gift tax law and on pensions law and serves as examination expert within the certified tax expert diploma process. Furthermore, Ruth enjoys to contributing her expertise and experience to charitable foundations where she has been serving as board member for many years and accompanying significant restructuring projects.

Chambers High Net Worth (HNW) 2022 ranks Ruth in Band 4 and she is newly acknowledged by Legal 500 2023 as "Next Generation Partner". Additionally, she has been awarded Gold as 'Lawyer of the Year, Switzerland' at the IFC Awards 2023 and the Euromoney Legal Media Group's Rising Star Award 2019.

LanguagesGerman, English, French, Italian
Curriculum
  • Partner at Bär & Karrer (since 2019)
  • Certified Tax Expert (2014)
  • University of Berne: Dr. iur. (2012)
  • Associate at Bär & Karrer (2011-2018)
  • Admitted to the Zurich Bar (2010)
  • Trainee at a Swiss law firm (2008-2009)
  • University of Zurich: lic. iur. (2006)
Memberships and Public Offices
  • The International Academy of Estate and Trust Law (TIAETL)
  • Member of the Steering Commitee of IPEBLA
  • Member of the International Fiscal Association Swiss Branch (IFA Switzerland)
  • Member of the International Pension & Employee Benefits Lawyers Association (IPEBLA) and of its Executive Compensation Committee
  • STEP Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners
  • Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce
  • Swiss Bar Association (SAV/FSA)
  • Zurich Bar Association (ZAV)
AdmissionAll Swiss Courts

Ruth Bloch-Riemer's Deals, Cases & News

Ranked as 'up and coming' by Chambers HNW

Chambers HNW 2020 & 2021

Lawyer of the Year, Switzerland

IFC Awards 2023

Ranked as 'up and coming' by Chambers HNW

Chambers HNW 2020 & 2021

Lawyer of the Year, Switzerland

IFC Awards 2023

Contact

Ruth Bloch-Riemer
P: +41 58 261 56 51
M: +41 58 262 56 51
ruth.blochriemer@baerkarrer.ch

Bär & Karrer Ltd.
Brandschenkestrasse 90
CH-8002 Zurich
Switzerland

Bär & Karrer
Via Maistra 2
7500 St. Moritz
Switzerland

Assistant