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Louise Lutz Sciamanna, LL.M.

Certified Specialist SBA Inheritance Law

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Louise Lutz Sciamanna is a specialist in inheritance law. She advises private clients in the areas of wealth and estate planning, estate administration, national and international matrimonial and inheritance law, business succession, and charitable foundations. She provides advisory and litigation services.

Louise Lutz Sciamanna has been practicing as a lawyer in the Private Clients field since 2009. In 2015, she joined CMS Zurich. Prior to that, she worked for several years in a renowned business law firm in Zurich, as an inheritance advisor in an international bank, and as a court clerk at the Zurich District Court.

In addition to her legal practice, she is a lecturer in inheritance law at the University of Zurich. She regularly gives lectures and publishes in her field of expertise.

Louise Lutz Sciamanna is a certified specialist lawyer in inheritance law (SAV) and a member of the Successio Association (Association for the Promotion of Swiss and International Inheritance Law). Louise Lutz Sciamanna has been recommended by Who's Who Legal, Chambers and Partners, The Legal 500, and Citywealth (Top 35 Private Client Litigators - Europe 2020).

Awards & Recognitions

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Louise Lutz Sciamanna is a go-to practitioner for complex inheritance matters. She also has great interpersonal skills.

The Legal 500, Switzerland, Private Client, 2024
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Louise Lutz Sciamanna and Tobias Somary both have extensive experience in cross-border estate planning.

The Legal 500, Switzerland, Private Client, 2024
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Louise Lutz Sciamanna is a "brilliant lawyer in her field" according to sources who consider her "a rising start" thanks to her remarkable inheritance expertise.

Who's Who Legal, Switzerland - Private Client 2021
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Louise Lutz Sciamanna handles national and international succession and estate planning for high net worth clients. She is also able to assist with inheritance disputes. A market insider says: "Louise has a good practical sense and is not only solution-driven but also hard-working."

Chambers and Partners, HNW, Switzerland, Private Wealth Law, 2020
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Louise Lutz Sciamanna is a “true expert in the field” with “phenomenal analytical skills and broad experience” in estate planning and inheritance disputes.

Who's Who Legal, Switzerland - Private Client 2020
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Tobias Somary and Louise Lutz Sciamanna both have a strong analytical approach. They have strong communication skills as well as enormous readiness for action.

The Legal 500, Private Client, Switzerland, 2020
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Louise Lutz Sciamanna advises on all aspects of private client law for wealthy individuals and families. Her experience includes both domestic and international matters and she is praised for being "very intelligent and quick to grasp all the issues." She also handles estate administration as well as inheritance and succession disputes. A lawyer comments: "She handles clients very well, even when they are hard work. She keeps everyone up to date and is very responsive."

Chambers and Partners, HNW, Switzerland, Private Wealth Law, 2019

Publications

Louise Lutz Sciamanna, Nachlassplanung im Vorfeld der Erbrechtsrevision(en), AJP, p. 325 ff.
Schweizerische und grenzüberschreitende Nachlass- und Vermögensplanung unter Berücksichtigung der schweizerisch-deutschen Rechtsbeziehungen (together with Tobias Somary and Dr Jasper Stallmann), February 2019
Die Ausgleichung, Kommentierung von Art. 626 ff. ZGB (together with Manuel Liatowitsch), in: Orell Füssli Kommentar zum Schweizerischen Zivilgesetzbuch (2. edition), Zurich 2011, Jolanta Kren Kostkiewicz/Peter Nobel/Ivo Schwander/Stephan Wolf (Hrsg.)
Die Verteidigung und das Verbot, den Angeschuldigten zu seiner Selbstbelastung zu verpflichten (in: ZStrR 120 (2002), p. 410 ff.).

Memberships & Roles

Lecturer at the University of Zurich in matrimonial property and inheritance law
Zurich Bar Association (ZAV)
Swiss Bar Association (SAV)
Zurich Bar Association, Inheritance Law Section
Successio (Association for the Promotion of Swiss and International Inheritance Law)

Lectures list

10 November 2023, St. Galler Erbrechtstagung 2023, Zurich Marriott Hotel, Zurich, "Besonderheiten von Nutzniessungslösungen in der erbrechtlichen Planung"
1 December 2022, training and further education at the Higher Court of the Canton of Zurich, "Gesetzesrevision – Das neue Erbrecht"
5 October 2022, Schweizerische Treuhänder Schule STS, half day seminar on "Revision of Swiss inheritance law and ease of business succession" (together with Roxana Bollinger-Bär)
23 November 2021, St. Galler Eherechtstagung 2021, Grand Casino Lucerne, "Effects on the revision of the inheritance law on family law II"
28 October 2021, Schweizerische Treuhänder Schule STS, day seminar on "Successful Estate and Emergency Planning" (together with Tobias Somary)
26 August 2021, 16. Schweizerischer Erbrechtstag, Hotel Schweizerhof, Lucerne, "Yesterday, today and tomorrow in estate planning: Initial findings on the revision of the inheritance law"
30 November 2020, St. Galler Erbrechtstagung, online-event, lecture "Nachlassplanung im Vorfeld der Erbrechtsrevision: Gestaltungsüberlegungen aus der Praxis"
5 November 2020, Schweizerische Treuhänder Schule STS, day seminar on "Successful Estate and Emergency Planning" (together with Tobias Somary)
31 October 2019, Schweizerische Treuhänder Schule STS, Hotel Marriott, Zurich, day seminar on successful estate and emergency planning (together with Tobias Somary)
7 February 2019, Hotel Baur au Lac, Zurich, "Paradigm Change in Inheritance Matters" (lecture together with Tobias Somary and Jasper Stallmann, CMS von Erlach Poncet Ltd.)
14 November 2018, Schweizerische Treuhänder Schule STS, Hotel Marriott, Zurich, day seminar "Erfolgreiche Nachlass-, Notfall- und Güterplanung" (together with Somary and Jasper Stallmann, CMS von Erlach Poncet AG)
13 September 2018, Bildungszentrum KV Zürich Business School, Weiterbildung für Assistierende von Mitgliedern des Zürcher Anwaltsverbands, "Erbrecht – Was ich wissen wollte!" (together with the lawyers Gabrielle Mazurczak and Tobias Somary)
19 October 2017, Schweizerische Treuhänder Schule STS, Hotel Marriott, Zürich, Tagesseminar Erfolgreiche Nachlass-, Notfall- und Güterplanung
14 and 15 March 2017, Podium des Zürcher Anwaltsverbands im Casinotheater Winterthur und im Kongresshaus Zürich, Referat zum Thema „Plötzlich urteilsunfähig! Vorsorgeaufträge für Jung und Alt“

Education

2019 – Fachanwalt SAV Erbrecht / Certified Specialist SBA Inheritance Law
2012 – King's College London, Master of Laws (LL.M., with distinction; Dickson Poon School of Law Prize for best student on the LL.M. in International Business Law)
2008 – Bar Admission (Zurich)
2005 – University of Zurich (lic.iur., magna cum laude)

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Louise Lutz Sciamanna, LL.M.

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