Lerco

What Lerco does

Lerco is a privately held, for-profit professional services firm headquartered in Hergiswil, Switzerland, founded in 1991. According to the available firmographic record, the company provides a multi-line service portfolio spanning accounting, tax advisory, business setup, property management, and international trade support. With a headcount of 11–50 employees, Lerco operates at the scale of a small-to-mid-sized Swiss boutique advisory practice, likely serving individual clients, SMEs, and internationally active businesses that need Swiss-based compliance, fiduciary, and trade support.

The company's service mix positions it in the cross-border Swiss fiduciary and corporate-administration segment, a category in which local domicile, multilingual capability, and continuity of relationships are core competitive attributes. Its digital presence is anchored at lerco.ch; no productized software, platform, or technology layer is described in the available sources, and there is no evidence of AI/ML tooling, integrated systems, or proprietary technology assets.

A portion of the aggregated source material describes a separate joint-venture context in which an entity named Lerco was associated with Libya's National Oil Corporation and a foreign partner (Trasta) in the Ras Lanuf oil complex, with ownership transfer and termination of that partnership dated 2026-05-17. That content appears to describe a differently scoped entity than the Swiss professional services firm identified by the core firmographic record (Swiss headquarters, 1991 founding, 11–50 headcount, services portfolio), and the analytical sections below are grounded in the firmographic identity, which is consistent with the company's.ch domain.

Name

Lerco

Website

https://lerco.ch

Company type

Private

Founded year

1991

Operating status

Closed

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Lerco is a privately held Swiss professional services firm headquartered in Hergiswil, Switzerland, providing accounting, tax advisory, business setup, property management, and international trade support. Founded in 1991, it employs 11–50 people.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Professional Services

NAICS

Offices of Certified Public Accountants (541211)

SIC

Services-Engineering, Accounting, Research, Management (8700)

akta.pro primary industry

Tax Operations Support (Indirect Tax, Withholding, Compliance Admin) (BPAAAGAI)

Keywords

• Accounting services
• Tax advisory
• Business setup
• Property management
• International trade support

Headquarters

HQ city

Hergiswil

HQ country

Switzerland

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations

Core offering

Lerco provides accounting, tax, business setup, property management, and international trade support services. The firm is headquartered in Hergiswil, Switzerland, was founded in 1991, and operates with a headcount of 11–50 employees, serving clients across its multi-disciplinary professional services portfolio.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Accounting Services Accounting services for clients, provided as part of Lerco's professional services portfolio from Hergiswil, Switzerland.
• Tax Advisory Tax support and advisory services offered to clients as part of Lerco's multi-disciplinary service offering.
• Business Setup Company formation and business setup support for clients establishing entities, particularly relevant for cross-border and internationally active clients.
• Property Management Property management services provided to clients as part of Lerco's service portfolio.
• International Trade Support Support services related to international trade activities, complementing Lerco's accounting, tax, and business setup offerings for cross-border clients.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• National Oil Corporation (NOC) of LibyacoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 17 May 2026NOC of Libya has regained full control of the Ras Lanuf oil complex and refinery after terminating its partnership with Trasta within Lerco. The partnership lasted more than a decade and involved a judicial and arbitration dispute. NOC now holds all share ownership and plans restructuring and rehabilitation of the complex.
• TrastaminorOthersFormer foreign partner within Lerco that was involved in a joint venture with NOC for the Ras Lanuf oil complex and refinery. The partnership ended after a decade-long judicial and arbitration dispute. Trasta has completely withdrawn, transferring all share ownership to NOC.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights1 record

Broad incumbents

• EY Switzerland: EY Switzerland provides tax, accounting, and transaction advisory services and competes for the same SME and mid-market clients Lerco serves, especially on cross-border mandates.
• BDO Switzerland: BDO is one of the largest Swiss accounting and tax advisory networks, providing a comparable suite of accounting, tax, and business advisory services at materially greater scale than Lerco.
• KPMG Switzerland: KPMG Switzerland is a Big 4 firm offering accounting, tax, and advisory services across all Swiss cantons; represents the upper-bound incumbent that defines competitive pricing and capability expectations in Lerco's market.
• Mazars in Switzerland: Mazars operates a Swiss practice offering accounting, tax, and advisory services with international reach via its global network. Comparable offering set to Lerco but at larger scale.

Direct peers

• KMU Treuhand & Revisions AG: KMU Treuhand is a Swiss SME-focused fiduciary, tax, and accounting firm—closely comparable to Lerco in target customer (small/medium Swiss enterprises) and bundled service model.
• Balmer-Etienne AG: Balmer-Etienne is a smaller Swiss fiduciary and tax advisory firm offering multi-service support to SMEs, comparable in scale and service breadth to Lerco.
• Rödl & Partner: Rödl & Partner is a mid-sized international professional services firm with strong Swiss/German-speaking presence in accounting, tax, and cross-border advisory—a service mix closely aligned with Lerco's positioning.
• Allvisa AG: Allvisa is a Swiss fiduciary, tax, and accounting firm with comparable multi-service SME focus, providing direct head-to-head competition for similar client mandates.
• OBT AG: OBT is a mid-sized Swiss fiduciary, tax, and business services firm operating across multiple Swiss cantons. Closest size-and-service analog to Lerco in the Swiss market.

Others

• Treuhand Suisse: Treuhand Suisse is the Swiss fiduciary and accounting industry association; representative of the broader ecosystem of small and mid-sized Swiss fiduciary firms with which Lerco competes and cooperates.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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