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Liechtenstein-based Josef Bergt, co-founder of Bergt Law, is a corporate lawyer who represents private clients, companies and institutions on a variety of cross-border matters.

‘We advise international families; they are entrepreneurs who have typical corporate needs like finance and structuring, but also have family offices with foundations and trustees,’ he tells Spear’s.

His work often sits at the intersection of wealth planning, corporate law and financial compliance, and frequently involves family investment companies and high-value philanthropic structures.

Bergt acknowledges that, despite being ‘one of the smallest micronations in Europe’, Liechtenstein has ‘a significant international financial stronghold, particularly when it comes to private foundations’. As a result, he advises a wide range of international clients from the Middle East, US and Europe who have commercial interests in the country and the surrounding German-speaking nations.