Kinga M. Weiss
Associée
Dr. iur., LL.M., TEP, Avocate, Avocate spécialiste FSA en droit successoral
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Curriculum Vitae
Kinga M. Weiss is a partner and co-chair of the Private Clients team of Walder Wyss. She primarily devotes her time to domestic and foreign private clients, banks and family offices. Her areas of expertise are centered around both private clients and entrepreneurs in matters of inheritance law, including marital property law, relating to estate planning, business succession and execution of wills. Cross-border cases account for the bulk of her field of action. Besides, she also supports clients with relocation, asset structuring, trust and endowment matters and tax affairs. She regularly holds speeches and publishes articles in and outside of Switzerland. Kinga M. Weiss was a member of the Expert Commission on the revision of the Swiss Private International Law Act on inheritance law. She chairs the Schulthess Forum conference and is the country correspondent for Trusts & Trustees, the leading international journal on trust law and practice and the official journal of the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law.
She is a member of the Zurich Bar Association, Swiss Bar Association, International Bar Association (IBA), the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) and the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law as well as a fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC).
Born in 1969, Kinga M. Weiss was educated at the University of Zurich (lic.iur. 1996, Dr.iur. 1999) and New York University School of Law (LL.M. 2003). In 2000 she passed the bar and qualified as an attorney and in 2011 she graduated as certified specialist SBA inheritance law. She has working experience as clerk at the District Court of Meilen and as attorney for several years with a major Zurich law firm.
Kinga M. Weiss speaks German, English and Hungarian. She is registered with the Zurich Bar Registry and admitted to practice in all Switzerland.
New Options for Cross-Border Estate Planning under the Revised Swiss Private International Law Act
The Revision of Chapter 6: A View from the Practice
The new structuring options of the revised international inheritance law
Revision of Swiss international inheritance law
Legal aspects of business succession in family businesses
Switzerland: The Swiss Family Foundation - revival for family wealth and estate planning?
International Families, Assets and Challenges for your Estate Planning
International Families, Assets and Challenges for your Estate Planning
Cross Border Incapacity
New possibilities for cross-border estate planning under the revised Federal Act on Private International Law
The impact of the EU Succession Regulation on cases linked with third countries (namely Switzerland)
Jurisdiction in Switzerland in cross-border successions
Options for Cross-Border Estate Planning under the Revised Swiss Private International Law Act
Interview Robert Desax, Kinga Weiss: «Tax considerations should also be taken into account when planning your estate»
New Legislation and developments in inheritance law
Executor’s powers: What is the role/duty/obligation of an executor in your jurisdiction and how is a foreign executor recognised
You can run, but you can’t hide
Revision of Swiss International Inheritance Law
Revision of Swiss international inheritance law
Protection of the (heir)contractual heir against lifetime grants - Quo vadis?
Selected Federal Court decisions from December 2022 to June 2023 with a focus on substantive law and a focus on procedural law
Selected Federal Supreme Court decisions from December 2022 to June 2023 with a focus on substantive law and procedural law
Case law on Swiss jurisdiction in inheritance litigation
The draft for a Swiss trust: A Big Throw or Just Missed is Also Missing?
Swiss participation in acquired property and German community of accrued gains in international matters - characteristics and structuring options, with special consideration of art. 216 CC
Presentation on the most important decisions of the Federal Supreme Court in inheritance law from May 2022 to December 2022
Commented sample lawsuits on right of individuals inheritance and property law (Volume III)
Crime and Punishment: Cross Border Information Gathering and Asset Tracing
Panel Discussion: Challenging wealth and estate planning issues in dealing with the United States and US persons
Art. 216 CC as a planning aid for spouses with German nationality - illustrated by concrete examples
Most important decisions of the Federal Supreme Court in 2022 - focus on substantive issues
Position paper on the proposed draft bill for the introduction of a Swiss trust
Schulthess Forum Erbrecht (Tagungsleitung)
Introduction of a Swiss trust law
ACTEC International Estate Planning Committee / 2022 Country Summaries, Highlights and Developments
Einführung des Schweizer Trusts
Introduction of the Swiss Trust
Outlook on the planned revision of the inheritance law provisions in the IPRG
Droit des successions des entreprises III: développement juridique et gouvernance familiale (gestion des conférences)
Revised inheritance law: current need for action
Droit des successions des entreprises II: évaluation et financement (présidence de la conférence)
La protection de l’entreprise en droit matrimonial
Droit des successions des entreprises I: Défis juridiques – cas pratiques (président de la conférence)
Figli adottati, illegittimi o concepiti artificialmente nel diritto successorio
Nouveau droit successoral à compter du 1er janvier 2023
New inheritance law effective as of 1 January 2023
Unternehmensnachfolge unter Einbezug der Familie
Erbrecht 2021 (Tagungsleitung)
Ripercorrerei questa strada senza esitazioni
Droit successoral 2020 : Les évolutions du droit successoral (direction)
La fin de la famille nucléaire ? Les enfants adoptés, illégitimes ou issus d’insémination artificielle dans le droit successoral et comme bénéficiaires de relations nationales et internationales
Private Wealth 2020 - Chapter Switzerland
Inscription de fondations familiales au registre du commerce
Unternehmenserbrecht quo vadis? Würdigung des bundesrätlichen Vorentwurfs zur Unternehmensnachfolge
Droit successoral 2020 – direction
Diritto del patrimonio digitale e diritto successorio
Muster Ehe- und Erbverträge
Zuzug und Wegzug von der Schweiz
Tagungsleitung (Der Wandel in der Nachlassplanung) und Referat (Revision des IPRG)
The conflict-of-law rules on successions - Thoughts on current reform project
Schutz des Unternehmens im Ehe- und Erbrecht
Planification successorale internationale – Multiple Wills: de l’utilisation de testaments internationaux et nationaux séparés en cas de possession de valeurs patrimoniales in et hors UE
Arrivée et départ de personnes physiques en/de Suisse
Droit des successions 2019: la planification successorale en mutation – défis pour la pratique
SPILA Revision
Projet de loi et message concernant la révision du droit suisse des successions
The EU Regulations on property for spouses and registered partners
Regolamenti UE sul regime patrimoniale per i coniugi e i partner registrati - prima analisi e illustrazione delle implicazioni per la consulenza in Svizzera
Le règlement européenne sur les régimes matrimoniaux: risques et conséquences pour la planification successorale
Matrimonial Property Law and Inheritance Law
Reform efforts in the field of Swiss Succession Law
The founder – level of influence on foundation and limits
Marital property in the international environment
Switzerland: International Standards and Swiss Inheritance Law
Planification successorale internationale – préparation à l’application du Règlement européen sur les successions avec prise en compte du droit matrimonial
Planification successorale internationale – premières expériences avec le Règlement européen sur les successions
Le métier d’avocat et la famille
Auswirkungen der EU-Erbrechtsverordnung auf die Schweiz
Successions transfrontalières au sein de l’UE – Application du Règlement européen sur les successions à compter du 17 août 2015
Planification de la succession pour les entrepreneurs
Successions impliquant des relations avec des États tiers
Hériter. Partager. Se disputer?
Hériter. Partager. Se disputer?
EU Succession Regulation, overview and introduction – Plenary session 1
EU Succession Regulation – The gaps and pitfalls from a Swiss perspective
EU Succession Regulation – New planning options and risks
Succession planning for Russian clients in Switzerland
Die Qualifikation von Betreuungs- und Pflegeleistungen durch Angehörige und ihre Bedeutung im Erbrecht
Die EU Erbrechtsverordnung – Neue Herausforderungen für die internationale Nachlassplanung aus Schweizer Sicht
Impact of the European Succession Regulation on crop-boarder successions from Swiss perspective
The European succession Regulation and Switzerland
Private assistance and care services and their inclusion in the inheritance law
Erbschaft- und Nachlasssteuer Schweiz
Wohnsitz oder gewöhnlicher Aufenthalt Die Anwendungsprobleme der europäischen Erbrechtsverordnung im Rechtsverkehr mit der Schweiz
International succession cases under consideration of the EU Succession Regulation
Klage auf Vollzug eines Erbteilungsvertrages oder Teilungsklage?
EU Succession Regulation
Living will and cross-border successions between EU and Switzerland
Acquisition of real estate by spouses
Treatment of Trusts in Switzerland
Advance Directive
Die Erbschaftssteuerreform in der Schweiz
Business succession for family businesses
Nachlassplanung für Familienunternehmen
The Law on the Protection of Adults
The Prospectus Liability in International Private Law under Consideration of US, English and German Law
Entitlement of the foreign executor to the estate and his power of disposal over it
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Lorenzo Barbieri
Trainee Lawyer
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Nicolas Bopp
Associate
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Marius Breier
Associé
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Martin Busenhart
Associé
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Janine Corti
Counsel
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Robert Desax
Associé
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Ursina Gremminger
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Gabrielle Guye
Senior Associate
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Daniela Hottiger
Associate
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Vangelis Kalaitzidakis
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Fabienne Limacher
Associée
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Jan Ole Luuk
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Thomas Meister
Associé
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Michael Müller-Zhang
Associate
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Natascha Rizzi
Senior Associate
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Fouad G Sayegh
Associé
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Jessica Weber
Trainee Lawyer
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Maurus Winzap
Associé
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Laura Zürcher
Associate
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