Potential inclusion into the Private Client Global Elite list is by invite submission only. From over thousands of applications submitted globally, only 292 nominees are selected for the final list via extensive research into each lawyers experience, expertise and peer nomination (including the number and quality of international nominations outside of the entrant's jurisdictions).

Bernard Vischer, Manuel Liatowitsch, David Wallace Wilson and Andrea Dorjee-Good are four of only 26 Swiss lawyers included in the overall list.