Tina Wüstemann
About
Tina Wüstemann heads the private client team. She advises Swiss and foreign private clients, executives as well as entrepreneurs regarding complex estate and succession planning matters including trusts, prenuptial agreements, wills and relocations to Switzerland. Tina Wüstemann also advises charitable foundations and represents clients in contentious trust and estate matters as well as the administration of large international estates.
Tina Wüstemann publishes regularly and frequently lectures on trust and estate matters in Switzerland and abroad. She is chair of the Zurich Annual Conference on International Trust and Inheritance Law Practice and serves as board member in several international charitable organizations, as member of the advisory board of the Department of Economics, University of Zurich and as board member of the ETH Zurich Foundation.
In Chambers and Partners HNW 2021, Tina Wüstemann is listed in Tier 1 for Private Wealth Law in Switzerland. Tina Wüstemann has been awarded by Who's Who Legal as Private Client Lawyer of the Year 2021 (global) and Lawyer of the Year 2019 (Switzerland), and she is listed as Thought Leader in Global Elite 2021 (Private Client), Global Leader 2021 and National Leader Switzerland 2021 (Private Client). Furthermore, Citywealth names Tina Wüstemann as Women of the Year 2021 at the Citywealth The Magic Circle Awards 2021 and in 2020 as one of the Top 100 trust litigators and lists her among the Top Ten Powerwomen Trust Litigators worldwide. Citywealth further awarded her in 2018 with gold as "Woman of the Year - Leadership (Professional Services)". In 2022, Tina Wüstemann was also awarded with the Europe Women in Business Law Award 2022 as 'Best in trusts & estates', marking the sixth time she has received this recognition following 2021, 2020, 2019, 2017 and 2014.
- Partner of Bär & Karrer (since 2004)
- Associate at Bär & Karrer (1998)
- Member of the New York Bar (not practicing) (2000)
- New York University: LL.M. (1998)
- Associate at a Swiss law firm (1994)
- Admitted to the Zurich Bar (1994)
- University of Zurich: lic. iur. (1990)
- Trainee at K&L Gates, former Middletons Moore & Bevins (Sidney) (1992)
- Law Clerk at the District Court of Zurich (1990)
- Swiss Bar Association (SAV/FSA)
- Zurich Bar Association (ZAV)
- New York State Bar Association
- STEP Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners
- Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA)
- Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists (ACTAPS)
- Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC)
- The International Academy of Estate and Trust Law (TIAETL)
- Board member of the Swiss Association of Arbitration in Inheritance Matters (SVSiE)