Darine Fares-Yammine

Darine Fares-Yammine is a partner at WP Advisors SA, a Geneva-based advisory firm specialising in estate planning and wealth structuring for private clients. Under the strength of its partnership the firm has been recognised as Estate Planning Firm of the Year in Switzerland at the Corporate INTL Global Awards 2025, an award that reflects its focused expertise in helping families organise, protect and pass on their wealth across generations and jurisdictions. The recognition affirms the firm's standing in the specialised world of cross-border private-wealth advice.

WP Advisors, part of the WPA group, is based in Geneva and maintains further offices in Monaco and Luxembourg, giving it a presence in three of Europe's principal centres for private wealth and estate planning. This footprint reflects the international nature of its clientele and the cross-border character of the matters it handles. The firm places particular emphasis on serving high-net-worth families with connections to the Middle East, positioning itself as a specialist in the cultural and legal nuances of that region while retaining the global capabilities needed to advise on structures and assets spread across multiple countries.

Estate planning sits at the centre of the firm's practice, and it is delivered alongside a suite of related services. WP Advisors advises on estate planning and the preparation of wills, including DIFC wills for clients connected to the Dubai International Financial Centre, as well as international investment structuring, cross-border wealth planning, legal family-office services and corporate advisory work. This combination allows the firm to address not only the transfer of wealth but also the way in which assets are held, managed and governed during a client's lifetime, offering a coordinated approach to the many dimensions of family wealth. For internationally mobile families, the interaction between wills, trusts, corporate holding structures and the tax rules of several countries can be highly complex, and bringing these strands together under one adviser reduces the risk of gaps or contradictions.

The firm's client focus is built around bespoke, individually tailored solutions rather than standardised products. Drawing on what it describes as decades of combined experience, WP Advisors designs strategies to meet each family's particular goals, taking account of the specific legal and cultural context in which they operate. For families whose interests span the Middle East, Europe and beyond, this ability to combine regional understanding with international structuring expertise is a significant advantage, and it lies at the heart of the firm's value to its clients. Estate planning of this kind is as much about protecting family relationships and continuity as it is about assets, and it rewards advisers who take the time to understand each family's circumstances in full.

As a partner, Darine Fares-Yammine contributes to the estate-planning and wealth-structuring expertise that underpins the firm's recognition, working within a practice whose reputation rests on discreet, sophisticated advice to private clients. Her role places her among the advisers responsible for guiding families through the planning, structuring and governance of their wealth across borders. The naming of WP Advisors SA as Estate Planning Firm of the Year in Switzerland at the Corporate INTL Global Awards 2025 recognises the firm's specialist focus, its multi-jurisdictional reach across Geneva, Monaco and Luxembourg, and the tailored, client-centred approach that partners such as Darine Fares-Yammine bring to the service of high-net-worth families.