Serge Calame
Partner, Geneva/Lausanne
T +41 58 552 04 70
serge.calame@mll-legal.com
Profile
Serge Calame co-heads the firm’s private clients practice group. His main areas of practice are international estate and tax planning where he provides broad expert advice to sophisticated international private clients and family offices, with a special focus on corporate and contractual issues to family owned businesses and entrepreneurial ventures.
Serge Calame is a recognized leading private client adviser and trust and estate litigator in the Legal Week « Private Client Global Elite Directory » since 2012. He continues to be listed by Who’s Who Legal in the Private Clients publication and in the Switzerland: Private Clients publication. He is also recognized in The Legal 500 and is ranked in Chambers and Partners, in the private clients category.
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Rankings & Awards
- “Serge is great. He is very practical, very responsive and provides down-to-earth advice. He knows his law, and clients really appreciate him because he’s not afraid of the tough issues” – Chambers and Partners, HNW, 2021
- “Very knowledgeable, experienced and affable” – Chambers and Partners, HNW, 2021
- “He has a very pragmatic approach, and very good knowledge of the English market and residential non-domicile private client work” – Chambers and Partners, HNW, 2020
- “Serge is extremely experienced and a safe pair of hands. You don’t hesitate to recommend him” – Chambers and Partners, HNW, 2020
Education & Admission
- Admitted to the bar in Switzerland (1997)
- University of Geneva, lic. iur. (1994)
Memberships and public offices
- International Bar Association (IBA)
- Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP)
- Association genevoise de droit des affaires (AGDA)
Languages
- French
- English
- German
- Italian
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“He has a very pragmatic approach, and very good knowledge of the English market and residential non-domicile private client work” - Chambers and Partners, HNW, 2020
