Trust management & accounting

The trust team deals with all aspects of trust management; we administer and safeguard trust assets, monitor investment selection and performance, maintain accounting records, prepare annual accounts, prepare annual tax returns, carry out inheritance tax compliance, advise as to income and capital distributions and coordinate meetings among trustees, professional, investment and service providers and beneficiaries.

We work closely with colleagues in our wealth planning and contentious trust practices to offer a complete service to our trustee clients.

We also offer corporate trustee services in UK via our in-house trust corporation, WITCO. WITCO is able to act not only as trustee but also as protector and nominee if so required.

Recent work

  • Appointment of WITCO as trustee of a trust holding an Italian family’s valuable collection of modern art. 
  • Appointment of WITCO as trustee of a trust arising from a gift made by the Court of Protection on behalf of a Patient for the benefit of a group of members of her family.
  • Acting for trustees of a discretionary trust containing a share of a significant family ICVC.
  • Administering a trust holding a portfolio of valuable hedge funds.