Our expertise in this area encompasses:
UK Trusts
- drafting and setting up offshore and onshore trusts
- establishing trusts following personal injury proceedings
- issues arising from the administration and operation of UK trusts
- taxation issues connected with trusts
- Trust disputes
- use of trusts for family financial provision
- UK trust administration
- variation of existing trust arrangements
- winding up of existing trusts
Offshore trusts and corporations
- advising on holding UK property through an offshore corporation to minimise exposure to UK tax
- creating excluded property trusts for non-domiciled persons
- liaising with lawyers and institutions in offshore jurisdictions to ensure the correct and most appropriate structure is put in place
- matters of English Law and taxation relating to offshore trustees
- repatriating/breaking up existing offshore trusts for non-domiciled residents in the UK and for those for whom the tax advantages may have been lost