Asia Pacific

Advising a Chinese billionaire entrepreneur in the semiconductor industry on the implementation of a multi-jurisdictional succession and wealth preservation strategy ahead of a potential business sale and future liquidity event, including the establishment of a pre-sale trust structure for business interests, a separate trust and Singapore private trust company structure to hold personal wealth and post-IPO liquidity, and the optimisation of existing family office and fund arrangements. Our work includes coordinating with licensed trustees and the client’s IPO advisers, advising on pre-IPO asset transfers, governance arrangements for the private trust company, ongoing tax and regulatory considerations, and conducting a comprehensive review of the family’s global citizenship, residency and asset profile to future-proof long-term succession and wealth planning.

Advising a prominent entrepreneurial family with substantial Hong Kong listed business interests on the design of a family business succession structure balancing complex tax, governance and family dynamics considerations. The engagement involves developing a multi-trust structure to preserve family wealth and business interests across generations, while carefully addressing significant matrimonial risk, cross-border tax exposure and succession planning objectives. Our role includes advising on the allocation of assets between family branches, designing governance safeguards for long-term asset protection and coordinating Singapore and PRC tax and reporting considerations to support the family's wider succession strategy.

Advising one of the world’s wealthiest technology entrepreneurs on the establishment of trusts for US and non-US family members, including urgent succession planning for US-resident children and the design of a long-term wealth preservation structure involving multiple family trusts and a private trust company. The engagement requires coordinating complex cross-border estate, tax and governance considerations across several jurisdictions, including planning for differing citizenships and tax residencies within the family, while supporting the family office on wider wealth management, succession and risk-diversification objectives.

Advising an ultra-high net worth family whose family business and members are based in Hong Kong, and have overseas connections, including a number of European countries and the UK, on a variety of matters including updating the patriarch's will and letter of wishes which involved consideration of the succession of his German assets, preparing lasting/enduring powers of attorney for members of the family in the UK and HK, and updating the provisions of the patriarch's lifetime trust.

Advising the patriarch of one of Indonesia’s leading mining groups on the design and implementation of a succession planning structure to preserve and transfer ownership of a substantial family business and diverse global assets across multiple generations. The engagement includes structuring trusts to hold interests in listed and private companies across Indonesia, Singapore, Australia and China, establishing family office and fund structures, integrating succession arrangements for aviation assets including private jets and helicopters, and coordinating complex tax, regulatory, inheritance and foreign ownership considerations across multiple jurisdictions to ensure long-term continuity of family control and wealth.

Advised a Hong Kong billionaire in relation to his international estate, tax and trust planning through liaising with his family offices which are operating in Hong Kong, the United Kingdom and the US. The client is resident in Hong Kong, but his family members include US, Canadian and PRC citizens. The client holds assets in various jurisdictions including Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, the US, Canada, the BVI, other parts of Asia and Europe. We assisted on the client's succession planning, covering assets exceeding US$130 million across several jurisdictions.

We have acted for an international family office and its Monaco resident principal on complex cross-border estate, succession and governance planning, acting as a central coordinating hub for multi-jurisdictional advice across trust and corporate structures. Our work has included advising on the evolution and potential migration of key trust structures (including contingency “Plan B” arrangements), developing governance and control mechanisms to support succession across children from multiple relationships, coordinating interactions between Jersey and Australian structures (including beneficiary funding and entrepreneurial support), and advising on global incentivisation and investment platforms (including a Singapore investment company), reflecting our role as integrated adviser on long term wealth structuring, family governance and intergenerational planning.

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 continue to act for a multi generational ultra high net worth shipping family on the evolution and consolidation of a diversified global shipping, trading and investment group, advising over many years on holding and governance structures designed to preserve family control, privacy and resilience while supporting generational transition and operational diversification. Our work encompasses cross border corporate and tax structuring across multiple jurisdictions, integration of onshore and offshore entities, consolidation of shipping and investment activities, family office governance, executive remuneration and incentivisation, individual tax advice for internationally mobile principals and employees, and the ongoing development of fund and co investment structures (including philanthropic activities), reflecting our role as the family’s trusted adviser on both personal and strategic matters.