Get to know David Wallace Wilson
David Wilson is a partner in our Private Clients Group in Geneva. He advises private clients, trustees, banks, and family offices on Swiss and international estate planning, wills and testaments, marital agreements, trusts, private trust companies, and other succession vehicles. His additional areas of expertise include anti-money laundering and art and antiques law.
A 1998 graduate of the University of Geneva Law School, he received a Master of Laws in Comparative Jurisprudence (M.C.J.) from New York University in 2002, further qualifying as a Trust and Estate Practitioner (TEP) in 2003. He is the Swiss contributor to the Glasson’s reference work “International Trust Laws” and the editor of www.trusts.ch, the only website dedicated to trusts in Switzerland. Moreover, he regularly lectures for the Swiss Advanced Certificate in Trust Management (SACTM), the Certificate in Compliance Management and the Economic Crime Institute.
Since 2004, David Wallace Wilson serves as an officer on the Suisse-Romande committee of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) and on the scientific committee of the SACTM. He has given conferences/seminars for STEP, the Offshore Tax Planning Conference, the Federal Attorney General, several Swiss universities, the Geneva Bar Association, the British Swiss Chamber of Commerce, the American International Club, several notary public associations, the Journée de Droit Civil, VisionCompliance and ARIF on such topics as international estate administration, tax forfait / lump-sum agreement, relocating to and residing in Switzerland, trust disputes, taxation of trusts, holding Swiss property in trust, family planning, anti-money regulations, and compliance in the art trade.
He is a member of the following professional bodies: STEP, the Swiss Bar Association, the Geneva Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the International Bar Association, and Profonds (charitable and non-profit organizations).
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