Our highly regarded International Trusts & Private Client team includes some of the
most renowned litigators and legal advisers in the offshore world.
Our International Trusts & Private Client practice is unique among the larger offshore firms in that it operates as a single, integrated team across all six of our offices.
With this distinctive global perspective, we’re able to advise neutrally on the most appropriate jurisdiction in which to establish and administer wealth management structures. We work together without jurisdictional boundaries in our clients' interests.
Our expert team advises trustees, high-net-worth individuals and family offices on wealth structuring, estate planning and trust and foundation set-up and administration. This covers the trust and foundation lifecycle – from design and implementation of new structures through to the transformation and consolidation of older ones.
We advise on hundreds of trusts and foundation structures every year, and are also directly involved in shaping the development of the law. This means that we’re able to offer our clients the most up-to-date thinking and expertise in wealth structuring in the market.
Our team advises trustees and beneficiaries on complex litigious and potentially litigious issues arising in the course of the administration of trusts and foundations (both contested and non-contested). These include requests for trust information, transfers of trusts to other service providers, restructurings, rectification, mistake and Public Trustee v Cooper applications.
Our highly experienced team frequently advises single and multi family offices and ultra high net worth individuals, helping them to achieve their particular objectives which may include growing and protecting wealth, asset protection, philanthropy, governance, inter-generational wealth transfer and privacy. We also advise families how to avoid and successfully resolve disputes and litigation.
We often advise on:
• Structures typically used to hold wealth such as trusts, foundations, companies and limited partnerships which are utilised for family succession, family investment companies, family unit trusts, private trust companies, private trust foundations, philanthropic structures and private fund and fund like structures including sustainable finance, impact funds and ESG
• The legal and regulatory environment for family offices offshore
• The rights of UHNWIs (whether settlors or beneficiaries) and their trustees, protectors and enforcers in relation to private wealth structures
• Obtaining information in relation to private wealth structures
• Changes in administration such as replacing trustees or protectors
We have decades of experience in advising companies, pension administrators and trustees on the establishment, management, development, restructuring and winding-up of pension schemes and employee benefit trusts.
We frequently work alongside top-tier onshore law firms, actuaries, administrators and employee benefit advisers in this area.
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