David Wallace Wilson

Location: Geneva, Switzerland,
Expertise: Non-contentious Trusts, Contentious Trusts, Charities, Estate Planning, Family and Matrimonial, Art Advisory,

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Leaders List interview: 60 seconds with David Wallace Wilson, Schellenberg Wittmer

Citywealth speaks to David Wallace Wilson, member of Citywealth’s Leaders List and Partner at Schellenberg Wittmer who also acts as head of the Private Wealth practice in Geneva.

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Institutional Client review:
David is the main single point of contact for our trust cases. Very skilled, internationally oriented, responsive, proactive. Always reachable and thorough understanding of clients' needs. David is extremely reliable and has been able to surround himself with a great team of lawyers. He is definitely a lawyer you want to have on your side and in your team.
Ariane Slinger - ACE International SA / ACE Trustees SA
15 Nov 2022

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Institutional Client review:
David is the main single point of contact for our trust cases. Very skilled, internationally oriented, responsive, proactive. Always reachable and thorough understanding of clients' needs. David is extremely reliable and has been able to surround himself with a great team of lawyers. He is definitely a lawyer you want to have on your side and in your team.
Ariane Slinger - ACE International SA / ACE Trustees SA
15 Nov 2022
Institutional Client review:
David is one of the Geneva top lawyers specialized in trust, private clients and family issues. He has an extensive know-how on international structures and the specific needs of global families. He has a deep expertise and very pragmatic approach to any Swiss and international tax and legal problems. Clients love him since he is a real problem solver! He has a huge capacity to very rapidly relate to them, to handle in a very efficient manner the problems at hand and to explain complex matters in a comprehensible manner. He can be relied on and is always aware of the latest legal developments since he has involved himself a lot in the defense and development of the Swiss Trust Industry. Someone to follow !
Ariane Slinger - ACE International SA
07 Jul 2019
Peer review:
David is a fast thinker who quickly grasps complex legal and tax issues affecting cosmopolitan families. His deep understanding and vast experience of the Swiss and international legal, tax and regulatory frameworks enable him to provide excellent value for money and practical advice to private clients and intermediaries alike.
Xavier Isaac - Accuro Fiduciary
28 May 2019
Institutional Client review:
David Wilson is a highly respected private client lawyer. His broad knowledge and experience enables him to provide clients with responses within a short period. He serves a number of families with the full family governance.
In addition he invests a lot of valuable time in the development of the STEP organisation in Switzerland.
Herman Krul - Reliance Trust Group
28 May 2019

Case Studies

– Advising a billionaire client on Automatic Exchange of Information, extensive restructuring of his large structures (involving Singapore, Bahamas and New Zealand), and relocating family members;
– Acting as testamentary executor of a foreign high net worth individual, in charge of liquidating an international succession involving two family-business companies and several lawsuits amongst a dozen of heirs;
– Reviewing the entire book of clients of a leading trust company to assess the KYC and AML risks;
– Advising a UHNWI family on its succession planning, in particular with respect to family companies and to a world-renown art collection.
– David Wilson is representing a high profile client in a case concerning estate litigation that included a family dispute, guardianship court procedures and overseeing issues with a private trust company. David Wilson acts as lead counsel, acting before the Swiss guardianship court, instructing British Virgin Island (BVI) counsel in a BVI trustee dispute, coordinating the majority of civil disputes, such as freezing of assets, and requesting commercial, tax and trust opinions. This case demonstrates David’s ability to handle complex cross-border disputes,
defending the transmission of a family business. This value matter is in the hundreds of millions CHF.

Articles

Leaders List interview: 60 seconds with David Wallace Wilson, Schellenberg Wittmer

Citywealth speaks to David Wallace Wilson, member of Citywealth’s Leaders List and Partner at Schellenberg Wittmer who also acts as head of the Private Wealth practice in Geneva.

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Switzerland: The tide turns – UHNW clients renew interest

Whether because of Brexit and the threat of a Labour government in the United Kingdom, political uncertainty in the Middle East or the fear of crime in Latin America, high net worth clients are beginning to look at Switzerland with fresh eyes.

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Geneva embraces change and steps up

Advisers to the wealthy in Geneva are busier than they have been for some time and are predicting a further uptick in work when the regulation of trust practitioners

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