Asia Pacific

We act as the primary point of contact to the Family Office for worldwide tax, estate planning and asset protection queries for a Monaco-resident principal and the related trust/corporate structures established for his children, providing multi-level structuring advice (trust and corporate) and coordinating local counsel across jurisdictions to deliver project-managed, cross-border solutions, including succession planning for significant Jersey family trusts (governance and potential migration), coordination between Jersey and Australian structures to support obligations to children from two marriages (including entrepreneurial support for older children), and advice on incentivisation arrangements, with strong potential for ongoing multi-jurisdictional work as the children’s circumstances evolve.

Advised a multi billion dollar Indian family with members in the UK and US on the establishment of a family office and private fund structures in response to recent UK tax changes, including structuring investment vehicles in India and Singapore to achieve tax efficiency while embedding appropriate governance and regulatory frameworks. The work involves coordinated cross border fund and holding company structuring, treaty based planning, and US tax analysis, delivered through integrated advice from our India, Singapore, UK and US teams, with ongoing advice also encompassing estate planning, wills and inheritance tax planning for the family.
 

We act for the family office, trustees and holding entities of a multi billion dollar trust structure investing across a wide range of fund vehicles and bespoke alternative assets, providing ongoing strategic advice on investment structuring and periodic trust and asset reorganisations. Our work involves continuous analysis and restructuring to reflect the scale and complexity of the portfolio, including asset movements and coordination with advisers across c.50 jurisdictions, underscoring our role as trusted adviser on highly complex, cross border family office matters.

Acting for an Australian entrepreneur (nine-figure exit) on designing and implementing a cross-border family office and asset-holding platform focused on near-term tax efficiency and global investment deployment across Australia, the US and Asia, including establishing a Singapore investment company to manage East Asia/Australian investments, advising on US investments with our US-qualified London team, and supporting the Swiss office on employee incentivisation, alongside longer-term succession and governance planning for the client’s children (including Jersey trust structures to remove ownership from the Swiss office) and personal UK tax analysis in connection with the client’s planned departure from the UK following non-dom reforms, demonstrating our ability to coordinate integrated UK/US/Singapore advice.

We advised a high-net-worth estate and US beneficiaries on Hong Kong probate, funding US trusts, estate corporate actions, and short- and long-term US federal tax planning for beneficiaries and compliance. 

We advised a Hong Kong-based client on succession planning, establishing US and non-US inter vivos trusts, matrimonial and planning documents. We continue to advise on US, Hong Kong and Singapore legal and tax issues to optimize holding structures, probate efficiency, tax outcomes, asset preservation.

We advise an ultra-high-net-worth Hong Kong family on cross-border tax, residency and succession planning, coordinating multi-jurisdictional counsel to manage trust, probate and treaty implications across Europe, the UK and Asia.

Acted for a European EPC contractor on the acquisition and EPC contracts for a 20 MW project in central Japan and an 800kw solar project in Kyushu. 

Acted for a foreign IPP company on its acquisition and development of a 22 MW solar project in Northern Japan. 

Acted for a foreign solar project company in its acquisition of a 25 MW project in Fukushima, Japan.