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Philippe Pulfer

Philippe Pulfer

Partner
lic. iur., Attorney at Law, TEP

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Location

Geneva

Contact

Direct phone: +41 58 658 30 10
philippe.pulfer@walderwyss.com

Curriculum Vitae

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Areas of activity: Art & Entertainment Private Clients Litigation Tax Philanthropy and International Organisations

Philippe Pulfer is co-head of the firm’s Private Client practice. He is widely recognised as one of Switzerland’s leading private client lawyers and, for more than 20 years, has been constantly top-ranked by all major professional directories. He is, according to Chambers HNW, ‘the go-to person in Switzerland’ in his area of practice and has been described by Legal 500 as 'one of the most knowledgeable trust and private client practitioners in Switzerland'. He has been included in the ALM Private Client Global Elite since the ranking’s inaugural edition in 2012 (under the Legal Week banner) and every year since its relaunch in 2017.

Philippe Pulfer specialises in wealth structuring and estate planning with an international focus and acts in complex, mostly multi-jurisdictional, succession and trust disputes. He advises charities and charity donors in all areas of philanthropy, with a particular focus on the arts and the support to cultural institutions, and serves as a board member of several charitable foundations. He has also significant experience in private banking disputes, in particular mismanagement of funds, fraud cases and international judicial assistance.

Philippe Pulfer is a member of the Geneva Bar Association, Swiss Bar Association, International Bar Association (IBA), Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) and The International Academy of Estate and Trust Law (TIAETL), as well as an International Fellow of the American College of Estate and Trust Counsel (ACTEC). He is a long-serving committee member of STEP Geneva and sat for two terms on the STEP Worldwide Council. He is a frequent speaker at international conferences and the author of publications on Swiss succession law, the practice of trusts in Switzerland, charities and art law.

Philippe Pulfer graduated from the University of Geneva in 1992 and was admitted to the Bar in 1995.

Philippe Pulfer speaks French and English. He is registered with the Geneva Bar and admitted to practice in all Switzerland.

Private Client 2023: Chapter Switzerland

 | by Philippe Pulfer, Philippe Kohler and Yacine Rezki | in: International Comparative Legal Guide

Death and Taxes Are Absolute Certainties – But Litigation Doesn’t Need to Be

| Speaker Philippe Pulfer | Cambridge Forum for international Wealth Advisors | Chewton Glen, Hampshire, United Kingdom

R.I.P. Swiss Trust?

 | by Philippe Pulfer | in: The Month – Private Client Global Elite

Private Client 2022: Chapter Switzerland

 | by Philippe Pulfer, Philippe Kohler and Yacine Rezki | in: International Comparative Legal Guide

Structures in Crisis

| Speaker Philippe Pulfer | Legal week, Private Client Forum | Como

About elephants and other animals - Contrasting different entity types and how they drive litigation strategy

| Speaker Philippe Pulfer | Cambridge Forum, Forum on International Wealth Disputes | Athens

Private Client 2020: Chapter Switzerland

 | by Philippe Pulfer and Olivier Sigg | in: "International Comparative Legal Guide" | Ninth Edition

Conseils pour collectionneurs en matière de planification

| Speaker Philippe Pulfer | STEP LUNCH - Succession & Oeuvres d'Art | Lausanne

International Comparative Legal Guide to: Private Client 2019 - Chapter Switzerland

 | by Philippe Pulfer and Olivier Sigg | Editor[s]: Global Legal Group Ltd, London | ed.: 8th Edition

International Incompetence

| Speaker Philippe Pulfer | Legal week, Private Client Forum | Como

Public registers under the EU’s 4th Anti-Money Laundering Directive – an excessive infringement of people’s rights?

| Speaker Philippe Pulfer | IBA, 23rd Annual International Wealth Transfer Conference | London

Painting a clearer picture

| Speaker Philippe Pulfer | Legal week, Private Client Forum | Como

Matrimonial Property Regimes, Settling assets in trusts

| Speaker Philippe Pulfer | Cambridge Forum, Forum on International Wealth Disputes | Barcelona

Is Hague Proving Harmonious?

| Speaker Philippe Pulfer | Transcontinental Trusts Conference | Geneva

The bad client: how to identify them, how to avoid them, what is the advisor’s potential liability for taking them on?

| Speaker Philippe Pulfer | Cambridge Forum, Forum on International Wealth Disputes | Marbella

Estate planning at the extremes

| Speaker Philippe Pulfer | Legal week, Private Client Forum | Como

Protectors: Solution for everything or recipe for disaster

| Speaker Philippe Pulfer | Transcontinental Trusts International Conference | Bermuda
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Recognitions


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