Grégoire Wuest

Practice Areas

Banking & Finance; Business Aviation; Corporate & Commercial; Private Wealth; Trade and Transport; Administrative Law and Public Procurement; Blockchain-Technologies & FinTech; Financial Services

Career

Member of the Management Committee of Schellenberg Wittmer (2024); Partner at Schellenberg Wittmer (2016); Senior Associate at Schellenberg Wittmer (2014); Associate at Schellenberg Wittmer (2010); Corporate Tax Consultant at a major auditing firm in Geneva (2006)

Professional Memberships

Member of the Geneva Bar Association

Languages Spoken

Languages: French, English, German, Portuguese

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