David G. Forbes-Jaeger is a Senior Partner in Secretan Troyanov's "Trusts and Private Clients" group.

He is a U.S.-qualified lawyer. He studied at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universitaet, Bonn, Germany (1976-77) and graduated from the University of Florida (B.A. 1978 summa cum laude; MA 1979 Phi Kappa Phi; JD 1982). He obtained a Certificate from the Hague Academy of International Law in 1985.

David G. Forbes-Jaeger was admitted to the Florida Bar in 1984. He is registered as a Foreign Attorney with the Geneva Bar since 1997 and is a member of the Foreign Lawyers Section of the Geneva Bar since 2005. He is also a member of the Florida Bar Association and STEP Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, Suisse-Romande Branch.

David G. Forbes-Jaeger joined Secretan Troyanov in 1988 and became a Partner in 1996.

David G. Forbes-Jaeger's practice focuses on international personal, corporate, financial and estate planning. He assists clients on all legal issues dealing with such planning structures as corporations and associations, SPVs, trusts, PTCs and other estate-planning instruments and further advises them in relation to international inheritance, tax, real property and immigration-related matters.

He is fluent in English, French and German.
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