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Professional Biography

Werner Jahnel is a Partner at Swiss law firm LALIVE. He specializes in private wealth, advising private clients, family offices, foundations and trust companies on complex international estate planning and inheritance law matters, succession planning, divorce and family issues. He is certified by the Swiss Bar Association as a Specialist in Inheritance law and is admitted to the bar in Switzerland, Austria and Spain. Having practiced international arbitration for two decades, he also acts as counsel and arbitrator in commercial and private client related arbitration proceedings.

What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?

Buech Herrliberg Switzerland

What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?

Advice from my father: When you get up in the morning you should not have the impression to go to work

What was your first job?

Private secretary of my grandfather

What is the book you recommend to everyone?

Any book written by our colleague Philippe Sands

What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?

I expect an increase in contentious estates given the amount of wealth accumulated in the baby boomer generation