Dieter Grünblatt focuses on tax structuring of national and international capital market transactions, collective investment schemes, real estate investments, structured financial instruments, private equity and fund management structures. He designs acquisitions and reorganizations and advises on employee stock option plans, pension plans and social security taxes and VAT. Dieter Grünblatt published his doctoral thesis on Non-fiscal Taxation Objectives (Basel 1994). He is co-author of the Basel Commentary on tax aspects of Corporate Divisions and Asset Transfers under the new Swiss Merger Law (Helbling & Lichtenhahn, Basel 2004) and author of the tax section on Securities Transactions in Europe (CCH, Chicago 2004), Getting the Deal Through – Mergers & Acquisitions 2011 – Switzerland (Getting the Deal Through, London 2011) and the tax section of Corporate Laws of the World – Swiss Country Report, 2011.