Pascal Hinny

Practice Areas

Prof. Dr. Pascal Hinny is a partner leading the Tax practice at our firm’s Zurich office. He specialises in national and international tax planning for multinationals, a field spanning everything from M&A, restructurings, recapitalisation, financing and relocation to private equity and family offices. In addition, Pascal regularly represents tax payers in front of tax authorities, in court- and MAP proceedings and acts as expert witness both for tax payers and governmental bodies.

Pascal Hinny is a professor of national and international tax law at the law faculty of the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.

Career

University of St.Gallen (lic. iur., Dr. iur.), Admission to Schaffhausen Bar, Swiss Certified Tax Expert, London School of Economics LSE (LL.M. Tax), Joined Lenz & Staehelin, University of Fribourg (Professor of Tax Law), Partner at Lenz & Staehelin

Professional Memberships

EXPERTsuisse Tax Chapter; Direct tax group of Confédération Fiscale Européenne (CFE), Brussels; Tax group Germany - Austria - Switzerland (D-A-CH), Berlin; Chairman of the Swiss Association of Tax Law Professors (SATLP); Zurich Bar Association (ZAV); Swiss Bar Association (SAV) and International Fiscal Association (IFA)

Personal

Languages: German, English, French