20 November 2009 - Article
Janette Cattell
Special Counsel | London
Janette is special counsel in the private client and tax team.
She has extensive experience in acting for UK and offshore clients with complex trust and corporate asset-holding structures. One of her specialities is finding a way through the minefield of the UK tax anti-avoidance provisions as they apply to offshore structures and also the taxation of non-domiciled UK residents. She also thrives on solving difficult drafting and interpretation issues in relation to wills, settlements and supplemental documents and the exercise of trustees’ and executors’ powers and duties. Janette also advises charities and philanthropists and, in this connection, she acts as the secretary to a major grant giving charitable trust.
Track record
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Headed up a team tasked (within a matter of weeks) with re-structuring the classes of beneficiaries in around 85 offshore and UK settlements.
Working with clients who are not UK resident but will be affected by the changes relating to the payment of inheritance tax on UK residential properties held through offshore structures and wish to maximise their assets for the benefit of UK charities. I am advising on a corporate re-structuring in order to achieve this.
England and Wales
Sweet & Maxwell’s Practical Trust and Precedents and Practical Will Precedents, contributor
The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners
The Charity Law Association
Me in a minute
Private client law gives me far more opportunity to interact with real people
Education
Languages
- English
Dates
Joined
1983
