Schellenberg Wittmer Ltd

Geneva / Banking & Finance / Private Clients & Estates / Corporate & Commercial / Trade and Transport / Administrative Law and Public Procurement

Grégoire Wuest is a Partner in Schellenberg Wittmer's Geneva office and Co-Head of our Banking and Finance Group. His practice focuses on banking and finance, in particular in the fields of private banking, where he advises banks and financial institutions on regulatory and clients' matters, and complex finance transactions. He also advises private clients on all aspects of trusts and international estate planning.

Experience:

• Advising international and Swiss banks, financial institutions and financial intermediaries and insurance companies on regulatory, business and legal matters, such as the implementation of new regulations
• Counsel to banks and financial institutions on their restructuration and extension of services (e.g. sales and acquisitions of client portfolios, opening of branches or subsidiaries in Switzerland or abroad, development of new products and services offered to clients, digitalization), covering both the regulatory side (with FINMA approval) and the corporate/contractual aspects
• Advising banks on complex cross-border finance transactions, with a focus on transactions secured by unusual assets such as business jets, yachts, art, etc.
• Extensive experience in corporate and transactional matters, focus on the shipping and business aviation industries
• Advising private clients on all aspects of trusts and international estate planning

2016 - Partner at Schellenberg Wittmer 2014 - Senior Associate at Schellenberg Wittmer 2010 - Associate at Schellenberg Wittmer 2006 - Corporate Tax Consultant at a major auditing firm in Geneva

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2009 - Bar Admission in Switzerland 2007 - Certificate in International Business and Finance, New York University 2006 - LL.M., University of Geneva 2004 - lic. iur., University of Geneva