Commercial Trusts
Private Clients/Charities
Trustees
Trust Litigation
Commercial Trusts
- Unit trusts
- Security arrangements
- Off balance sheet vehicle share ownership
- Performance/escrow arrangements
- Transaction-specific purpose trusts
[ TOP ]Private Clients/Charities- Assist private client tax and estate planning specialists with succession planning of some of the world's wealthiest families
- Provision of trust law solutions to the tax-driven and estate planning problems brought to us by onshore private client advisers – we do not offer tax advice or fiduciary services as trustees or directors
- Drafting bespoke trusts to provide for children and remoter generations
- Establishing charities and foundations, as trusts or corporations, to achieve charitable and philanthropic objectives
- Arranging the incorporation, ownership, licensing and operation of private trust companies where an international bank trustee may be inappropriate because of the nature or value of the intended trust assets
- Advising on purpose trusts when suitable as either a succession planning tool or as a non-charitable purpose trust or both
[ TOP ]Trustees- Trustee incorporation and ownership, including obtaining all regulatory licences
- "KYC" and "source of funds" regulatory regimes and anti-money laundering principles
- Operating procedures and precedent trust documentation
- Accepting, administering and winding-up a trust
- Third party claims - outside the trust or beneficiaries within the trust - against the trust assets or against the trustee itself
- Accepting the successor trusteeship of existing trusts or on retiring as trustee of continuing trusts
- Accepting and holding high-risk trust assets - taking advantage of unique local legislation concerning, for example, settlor reserved powers or purpose trusts
[ TOP ]Trust Litigation- Breach of trust disputes
- Construction, rectification and variations of trust deeds
- Beneficiary disputes
- Re-organisation of trusts
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