Tina Wüstemann

Languages Spoken

English, German

Practice Areas

Tina Wüstemann heads the private client team. She advises Swiss and foreign private clients, executives as well as entrepreneurs regarding complex estate and succession planning matters including trusts, prenuptial agreements, wills and relocations to Switzerland. Tina Wüstemann also advises charitable foundations and represents clients in contentious trust and estate matters as well as the administration of large international estates.

Tina Wüstemann publishes regularly and frequently lectures on trust and estate matters in Switzerland and abroad. She is chair of the Zurich Annual Conference on International Trust and Inheritance Law Practice and serves as board member in several international charitable organizations, as member of the advisory board of the Department of Economics, University of Zurich and as board member of the ETH Zurich Foundation.

Career

Partner of Bär & Karrer (since 2004)

Associate at Bär & Karrer (1998)

Member of the New York Bar (not practicing) (2000)

New York University: LL.M. (1998)

Associate at a Swiss law firm (1994)

Admitted to the Zurich Bar (1994)

University of Zurich: lic. iur. (1990)

Trainee at K&L Gates, former Middletons Moore & Bevins (Sidney) (1992)

Law Clerk at the District Court of Zurich (1990)

Professional Memberships

Swiss Bar Association (SAV/FSA)

Zurich Bar Association (ZAV)

New York State Bar Association

STEP Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners

Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA)

Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists (ACTAPS)

Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC)

The International Academy of Estate and Trust Law (TIAETL)

Board member of the Swiss Association of Arbitration in Inheritance Matters (SVSiE)