Our international clients are used to dealing with complex planning around their lives and businesses.
This extends across commercial interests and investments, dealing with emotional concerns for safety, security and wellbeing as they move and live, work and invest, and put down roots in different countries.
They often face daily risks of capital losses and capital demands but the current environment presents a new wave of challenges, from citizenship issues, to decisions around physical location and what constitutes a safe residence in the time of a global crisis. This is not only challenging for the family, but also for family offices who advise them, and those responsible for supporting family decisions.
For many families, the current crisis has forced them to think about incapacity and to put in place plans for the future, which instil behaviours in the family to protect their security, privacy, and investment decisions. Whilst families are connected through technology and shared knowledge, systems failures and corruption has led families to consider a simple written document to steer families through future critical conditions.
We are here to help families prioritise the steps they wish to take, and to deal with the complex concepts of citizenship, residence, and domicile, and help understand the position in relation to these rules and the UK tax system.
We have an international perspective with experts in our own offices in the leading wealth centres in the world, across Europe, Middle East, Asia.
For more information about the specific Private Client legal services we provide, legal services we provide to businesses and our international offices and network, please visit the relevant pages below.
Meet the team
- Call Piers +44 (0)20 7203 5352
- Email Piers
- London office
- Call Robert +44 (0)20 7203 5129
- Email Robert
- London office
- Call Andrew +44 (0)20 7203 5227
- Email Andrew
- London office
- Call Sangna +44 (0)20 7427 6565
- Email Sangna
- London office
- Call Dominic +44 (0)20 7427 6749
- Email Dominic
- London office
- Call Jeffrey +852 2531 3409
- Email Jeffrey
- Hong Kong office
- Call Catriona +44 (0)20 7203 5265
- Email Catriona
- London office
- Call Nicola +44 (0)20 7203 5139
- Email Nicola
- London office
- Call Grégoire +41 (0)22 591 18 43
- Email Grégoire
- Geneva office
- Call Michael +41 (0)22 591 18 80
- Email Michael
- Geneva office
- Call Dharshi +41 (0)43 430 0230
- Email Dharshi
- Zurich office
Our thinking
Alexia Egger Castillo
Wealth Structuring Developments In Switzerland
Careful considerations need to be given when setting up wealth and estate structures and vesting funds in them.
Jil Birnbaum
A lost masterpiece in your attic or garden?
Sarah Higgins
What's in a name? Family law principles when considering children's surnames
Charlotte Posnansky
Interim Reporting Restriction Order - More Moderate Mostyn? Or Purely Protective Prudence?
Dominic Lawrance
FT Ignites Europe quote Dominic Lawrance on the use of the UK's remittance basis
FT Ignites Europe quote Dominic Lawrance on the UK's remittance basis regime
Sophie Hart
Key Considerations for a Swiss Executor Dealing with UK Assets
What should a Swiss based executor dealing with assets in the UK be thinking about?
Louise Paterson
Fabergé eggs all in one basket: what will happen to Russian art currently on loan overseas?
Patrick Chan
Corporate Treasurer publishes Patrick Chan's comments regarding the No Consent Regime
Corporate Treasurer publishes Patrick Chan's comments on the No Consent Regime
Dharshi Wijetunga
Dharshi Wijetunga, Elinor Boote and Chloe Garcia write about Economic Substance for Trust Quarterly Review
Dharshi Wijetunga, Elinor Boote and Chloe Garcia write about Economic Substance
Sophie Dworetzsky
Spring Statement and Economic Crime
David Hansford
Hussain -v- Parveen: The problems with Trans-national divorces
Rose Carey
UK scraps the Investor visa
Elinor Boote
Increasing Trends for International Families
Oliver Auld
Pitfalls of international trust structures as asset protection vehicles
Circumstances in which they were established mean that they will always be inherently under threat.