As part of our expertise we can offer our clients international legal advice essential to a client’s succession and estate planning, which involves the highly complex area of international private law.

Estate planning and asset protection necessitate both careful and professional planning to ensure that the wishes of the client are fulfilled. These services are particularly relevant to clients that are resident and or domiciled in one jurisdiction, and who own assets in another jurisdiction. Other factors such as nationality and marital status all impact on the advice given. Without proper advice, not only at the outset but each time a client’s situation changes, matrimonial, succession and tax problems may arise.

Unless therefore professional advice is sought at an early stage multi-jurisdictional succession and inheritance tax problems can arise on death since the law of one jurisdiction may well override another with unintended and perhaps disastrous consequences. At worst a client’s wishes may be defeated, the estate subject to tax, and heirs faced with long running and complex problems to resolve.

By working closely together as a team our expert professional staff ensure that their knowledge and expertise is shared so that a client’s particular issue is considered from all relevant perspectives.

Furthermore with our excellent international connections, not only can we advise on the best structure for estate planning and asset protection purposes from a legal and tax perspective but we can also form and subsequently administer the appropriate structure.