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About Carrivelle

Built To Outlast Its Founders

Four commitments have shaped Carrivelle since its early days.

  1. We are paid by clients and by nobody else.
  2. We put the reasoning behind a recommendation in writing, so that it can be argued with.
  3. We prefer a position we can explain over one that merely performs well.
  4. We accept that a family may hear our advice and decide otherwise, which is why decision rights sit with the family in every document we draft.

Our Team

We work in English, German and French. Every family has a named lead adviser and a second colleague who knows the file well enough to act in their absence. Our backgrounds sit across private banking, tax law, audit and operating companies.

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In Our Clients' Words

“Working with Carrivelle has changed how we think about what our family holds. It has become something we take care of on behalf of the people who come after us. With clearer structures and investment leadership, we have brought our children into real conversations about the business and worked through estate decisions we had put off for years. That has given us real confidence about the road ahead.”

Jean-Marc F., Current ClientCo-Founder & CEO

“Carrivelle gives us top-tier investment advice and the hand-on assistance we really wanted from a family office. They have improved our after-tax position and built us a proper trust and estate roadmap alongside our lawyers. We make decisions more quickly now, and with considerably more confidence than we had before.”

Philippe R., Current ClientFounder & CEO

“After the sale, we had capital sitting in six places. Carrivelle took us from a founder's liquidity event to running like an institution. They are far more than the advice they give; they coordinate the investments, the tax work, the estate planning and every big transaction. I am grateful for the clarity they have brought, and optimistic about where this family goes next.”

Nicolas C., Current ClientFounder

“Our giving was generous but very scattered. Carrivelle helped us articulate what we wanted to change, choose the right vehicle to do it through, and measure whether the money is achieving what we hoped. Our children now sit on the grant committee, which has done more for how this family talks to one another than anything else.”

Marianne J., Current ClientChair, Family Foundation

“As a board, we needed reporting we could interrogate and an adviser willing to tell us the uncomfortable things. Carrivelle delivered both. The endowment sits entirely inside the guidelines we set, and our auditors have stopped asking for supplementary schedules. It has made the committee's work substantially easier.”

Chloé V., Current ClientChair, Cantonal Pension Foundation
Careers

Working at Carrivelle

Openings are posted here and nowhere else. Send a letter explaining which part of this work interests you and what you have done that bears on it.

No positions are open at present. Speculative letters are still welcome at contact@carrivelle.com

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