Jutta Gangsted Associate
Attorney at Law, LL.M.

Jutta Gangsted
Associate
Attorney at Law, LL.M.
+41 58 450 70 00
jutta.gangsted@lenzstaehelin.com 		Geneva
Route de Chêne 30
CH-1211 Geneva
www.lenzstaehelin.com

  • Expertise

    Jutta Gangsted is a senior associate in the Private Clients Practice of our Geneva office, providing strategic advice to families, trustees, and family offices on sophisticated cross-border wealth matters. She advises on multi-jurisdictional estate planning, bridging common law and civil law in projects such as business succession, trusts and foundations, estates, philanthropy, occasional art-related matters, and relocations. Before joining Lenz & Staehelin, she worked at a leading US law firm in Brussels; she holds an LL.M. from Columbia Law School, is admitted in New York, and earned a STEP Diploma in International Trust Management with the highest Switzerland and Liechtenstein score for the Diploma and several individual examinations.

  • Practices

    Litigation and Arbitration Private Clients

  • Professional Experience and Education

    and Education

    2017Associate at Lenz & Staehelin
    2014-15Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, Brussels
    2018Admission to New York Bar
    2016Columbia Law School, New York (LL.M., Belgian American Educational Foundation Honorary Fellowship)
    2014Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven (MLaw)
    2012Université Saint-Louis, Brussels (BLaw)

  • Specialist Areas

    Litigation, Private Clients, Commercial and Contracts, Corporate, Private International law

  • Languages

    French, English, German, Dutch, Spanish

  • Memberships

    Geneva Bar Association (OdA), American Bar Association (ABA), New York State Bar Association (NYSBA)

  • SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

    • Gangsted J., Wadhera J., The New Rules of Swiss Private International Law for Foreign and Swiss Dual Nationals Domiciled in Switzerland, in: Sweet & Maxwell Private Client Business, 2025 Number 1
    • Gangsted J., Van Calster ., Protected Parties in European and American Conflict of Laws: A comparative analysis of indi-vidual employment contracts, in: Yearbook of Private International Law, 2016/2017, vol. XVIII, 83-141

  • Contact Details

    Geneva jutta.gangsted@lenzstaehelin.com
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