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