Lyubomir Georgiev

Practice Areas

Lyubomir Georgiev has practiced law since 2003 in the United States and Switzerland. He has assisted family offices, fiduciaries, insurance companies, asset managers, investment advisers, banks, FinTech, private and sovereign wealth funds, non-profit foundations, and high net worth individuals. Lyubomir participated in the negotiations of the special arrangements between the Government of the Principality of Liechtenstein and the UK on voluntary disclosure, tax compliance certification and tax information exchange. He heads the International Tax and Global Wealth Management practice in Zurich and co-heads the Tax practice in Switzerland. Previously Lyubomir was a member of the EMEA Wealth Management Steering Committee and Knowledge Management & Training head. He is admitted to practice in Washington, DC, US Tax Court, England and Wales, and in Switzerland as a foreign-qualified solicitor. Lyubomir has been ranked in Chambers Global since 2012 as a foreign expert in practice areas such as UK tax and private clients, US private clients, and Liechtenstein tax and general business law.

Lyubomir practices in the following areas: global wealth management, cross-border taxation, withholding and tax treaties, tax filings, and regulatory compliance. His practice focuses on assisting institutional and individual clients with assets or activities involving multiple jurisdictions, including US, UK, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, EU and Eastern Europe. Lyubomir regularly advises on issues relating to US QI, FATCA, OECD CRS, and EU DAC6 tax information exchange, FATF AML, life insurance and annuity products, trust and estate planning, expatriation and relocation, blockchain and digital assets, cryptocurrencies and NFTs.