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Grégoire Wuest

Schellenberg Wittmer

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Position: Partner
Rating:
  • Highly regarded
Practice Areas:
Banking
Jurisdictions:
Languages:
French
English
German
Portuguese
Biography

Grégoire Wuest is a partner in our Geneva office and a member of the firm's Management Committee. 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.

Recent matter/case highlights
  • 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
Key practice areas
  • Banking
Sector expertise
  • Banking & Finance
  • Business
  • Aviation
  • Corporate & Commercial
  • Private Wealth
  • Trade and Transport
  • Administrative Law and Public Procurement
  • Blockchain-Technologies & FinTech
  • Financial Services
Academic qualifications
  • lic. iur., University of Geneva, 2004
  • LL.M., University of Geneva, 2006
  • Certificate in International Business and Finance, New York University, 2007
Association/network memberships
  • Member of the Geneva Bar Association
Bar Admissions
  • Switzerland, 2009
Address:
15bis, rue des Alpes
1211 Geneva 1
Switzerland
P.O. Box 1400
Tel:+41 22 707 8000 Email:Contact this practitioner Website:https://www.swlegal.com/en/lawyers/lawyer-detail/gregoire-wuest/