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. He is also member of the MLL Legal Management Team and in this function oversees the HR and Marketing departments. 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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Industry Groups
Rankings & Awards
- “Serge Calame receives widespread acclaim as a very focused practitioner who produces excellent work and has a collaborative approach” – Who’s Who Legal, National Leader Private Client, 2022
- “Serge has a huge breadth of practical experience and commercial acumen. He cuts through complexity and uncertainty and gives clear strategic advice” – Chambers and Partners, HNW, 2022
- Serge Calame is recommended in The Legal 500 EMEA, Private Clients, 2022
- “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
Publications
- Nouveau droit des successions en vigueur dès le 1er janvier 2023 : mesures immédiates | 20.10.2022
- New inheritance law in force from 1 January 2023 – immediate actions | 20.10.2022
- Nuovo diritto successorio in vigore dal 1 gennaio 2023: misure immediate | 18.10.2022
- Nouveau droit des successions suisse : Entrée en vigueur prévue pour le 1er janvier 2023 | 01.06.2021
Find all publications by Serge Calame on our website mll-legal.com.
Assistant
“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”
Publications
Nouveau droit des successions en vigueur dès le 1er janvier 2023 : mesures immédiates
MLL-News, 20 Octobre 2022- FR
New inheritance law in force from 1 January 2023 – immediate actions
MLL-News, 20 October 2022- EN
Nuovo diritto successorio in vigore dal 1 gennaio 2023: misure immediate
Memorandum MLL Legal, 18 ottobre 2022- IT
Nouveau droit des successions suisse : Entrée en vigueur prévue pour le 1er janvier 2023
MLL Newsportal, 1.6.2021- FR
Firm News
MLL Legal presents its new Management Committee
Journée Solutions GFI Genève, le 26 septembre 2022
Chambers High Net Worth Guide 2022 recommends MLL Legal
Private Client Exchange Switzerland 2022
Private Client Global Elite Directory 2022
News Portal
New Inheritance Law in Force From 1 January 2023 – Immediate Actions
With the entry into force of the inheritance law reform on 1 January 2023, Switzerland is modernising an important part of its more than 100-year-old legislation. The main changes inherent in the new inheritance law[1] are summarised in our Newsletter of 1 June 2021.
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New Swiss Inheritance Law: Entry into force planned for 1 January 2023
The Swiss parliamentary chambers approved the new inheritance law on 18 December 2020. No referendum has been requested for the proposed amendment[1] within the referendum deadline, which expired on 12 April 2021, the Federal Council has accordingly decided at its meeting on 19 May 2021 that it would enter into force on 1 January 2023.
MoreThe Geneva Forfait 2.0
Background On 30 November 2014, the Swiss population voted by a very strong majority against a left-wing initiative aiming to abolish the lump sum taxation system in place, the so-called “forfait” (see our 2December 2014 “The Forfait Reloaded” Newsletter for the complete story). The same day in Geneva, voters further rejected a separate initiative targeting […]
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