Balz Hösly, Alexandra Geiger, and Stefan Keller are featured in Private Client Global Elite Directories 2024.
The Private Client Global Elite Directory was created with the awareness that referrals and recommendations are absolutely key to the private client sector. To know that someone is an excellent technical practitioner is not enough, it is integral for the maintenance of client relationships that the advisors you refer to your clients are good personality fits and masters of communication. As such, rather than a listing of private client advisors as chosen by a third party, the professionals in the Private Client Global Elite Directories are the top selected individuals as chosen by their own peers within the private wealth industry.
The Private Client Global Elite Directories recognizes the world’s elite lawyers advising UHNW clients. The lawyers are peer-nominated out of 6,000 entries.
Balz Hösly, Alexandra Geiger, and Stefan Keller thank their colleagues for this honor.
Balz Hösly is one of the top specialists selected from over 4,000 nominations in the top "Private Client Global Elite" category. He is a certified specialist inheritance law and mediator, accredited by the Swiss Bar Association, and holds the TEP designation. Balz Hösly coordinates the private client team at MME, focusing on international estate planning, family businesses, and conflict resolution for private and corporate clients. He is a recognized specialist in advising entrepreneurial families and serves as the chairman of two boards of directors, both in challenging industries.
What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?
Kronenhalle in Zurich - a very traditional Swiss fine dining brasserie with a fabulous collection of (original!) paintings by internationally renowned artists as interior decoration.
What is the best advice you have ever received?
My Grandfather told me: Become an inheritance law specialist - people are always born and die, so you will never be unemployed.
What was your first job?
Packer in a butcher shop.
Which book would you recommend to everyone?
"People Skills" by Robert Bolton Ph.D. - How to assert yourself, listen to others, and resolve conflicts.
What changes do you expect in your practice next year?
AI as a challenge and as a standard application for plausibility and completeness checks.
Alexandra Geiger has been selected as one of 250 specialists in the "Private Client Global Excellence" category. She is a certified specialist in inheritance law and assists European and Asian clients and families on all estate matters. With almost 15 years of experience, she advises UHNW in the areas of domestic and cross-border matrimonial and inheritance laws, estate planning, as well as probate and estate administration in both contentious and non-contentious matters. With an understanding of both civil law and common law jurisdictions, she is committed to find the most suitable structuring for her clients, be it with trusts or foundations.
What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?
Meadesmoore, Singapore.
What is the best advice you have ever received?
Stay true to yourself.
What was your first job?
Supermarket employee.
Which book would you recommend to everyone?
"Culture Map" by Erin Meyer.
What changes do you expect in your practice for the next year?
The road to the Swiss family foundation
Stefan Keller is also listed as one of the specialists in the "Private Client Global Excellence" category. He works at MME in the Private Clients Team as a Senior Legal Associate. Before joining MME, Stefan Keller worked as a legal assistant in a listed company, a junior associate in a major law firm, and a court clerk in a Zurich court. Stefan Keller has in-depth knowledge of litigation and holds an LL.M. from the University of Vaduz in Liechtenstein in Foundation and Trust Law. He is highly appreciated by his private clients as a competent, reliable, and customer-oriented lawyer and is also a respected speaker in the field of inheritance law.
What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?
Restaurant Marcellino Pane e Vino, Zurich.
What is the best advice you have ever received?
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
What was your first job?
Legal assistant.
Which book would you recommend to everyone?
Steve Jobs, Biography.
What changes do you expect in your practice next year?
Increasing demand for cross-border planning.
The MME Partnership is proud of these nominations and extend our heartfelt congratulations to Alexandra, Balz, and Stefan!
