Family Estate
With dedicated teams in Geneva and Paris, our Family Estate group brings together multidisciplinary lawyers with recognised expertise.
We actively advise and assist individuals and families, entrepreneurs and executives, as well as banks, wealth managers, family offices, fiduciaries and charitable foundations facing issues related to their wealth or areas of activity.
Our lawyers handle complex cases involving cross-border issues, requiring the involvement of our two entities based in Geneva and Paris.
Our teams also work closely with other specialist groups at FBT Avocats SA to provide our clients with the best possible legal advice. In addition to their advisory role, our lawyers regularly publish articles on various areas of family property law in specialist journals.
Wealth Structuring and estate planning
- Wealth investment and structuring in a cross-border context
- Inter vivos gifts in a cross-border context
- Inheritance planning upon death
- Determination and/or choice of applicable inheritance law (professio juris)
- Comparative approach of eligible laws
- Advice on the drafting of testamentary dispositions
- Combination of matrimonial contracts, inheritance law and wills
- Dismemberment of the right of ownership in a cross-border context
- Improper usufruct agreements
- Recognition of family debts and loans
Unions (Marriage and Partnerships)
- Choice of matrimonial regime according to family, wealth and geographic context
- Drafting precautions and formal conditions in a cross-border context
- Evolution of the matrimonial regime
- Consistency of marriage contracts and inheritance law
- Non-marital unions (partnership) in a cross-border context
Philanthropy
- Assistance in setting up a philanthropic strategy in a domestic or cross-border context
Residence Transfer – Expatriation and Impatriation
- General wealth audit, warning points detection and recommendations
Publications
Team members
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The FBT Avocats SA team has been distinguished by The Best Lawyers in Switzerland Peer Review (2026 Edition)
/in Media and News Banking and Finance, Corporate and Commercial, Family Estate, Labour and social insurance, Litigation and Arbitration, Tax Alain Moreau, Frédérique Bensahel, Jean-Luc Bochatay, Marco Villa, Michel Abt, Serge Fasel 2025 Groupe bancaire, Groupe contentieux, Groupe droit du travail, Groupe fiscal, Groupe patrimoine, Groupe sociétés et contrats, Medias /by Yann BelliniCongratulations to our partners for their outstanding work in their respective practice areas!
Focus on the French Finance Act 2025
/in Media and News, News Family Estate, Tax Alain Moreau 2025 Groupe fiscal, Groupe patrimoine, Medias, News /by Yann BelliniThe new Finance Act contains several measures affecting taxation of individuals.
Taxation of the super-rich: French ideas for consideration
/in Media and News, News Family Estate, Tax Alain Moreau 2025 Groupe fiscal, Groupe patrimoine, Medias, News /by Yann BelliniFaced with the political risk of upsetting the working, middle and even wealthy classes, the priority now seems to be to tax «premium» taxpayers.