Track record
Taxation of image rights
Advised the manager of a major Premier League football club to negotiate a very complex scenario around the taxation of his image rights, where negotiating parties had very different backgrounds and interests and rules between the UK and their European country of residence varied greatly. Our multilingual team in the UK were able to liaise with the team in his home country to provide a seamless solution.
Greece based family office
Worked for a Greece based family office of a family with USD 3 billion of shipping, mining, commodity trading and real-estate assets on the establishment of Cayman and Bermuda based PTC structures for the segregated protection and ongoing management of their personal and business interests in such a way that they are protected from domestic risks.
Monaco based client
Advised a Monaco based client on the reorganisation of the ownership structure for his EUR 30m property on the French Riviera, working closely with French and Monegasque advisors to rationalise the structure in the context of the new French trust taxation and reporting rules.
Non-dom advice for foreign owners of UK property
Advised a number of foreign owners of UK residential property on the new non-dom and residential property IHT rules that were announced to come into effect from 6 April 2017.
Business Property Relief
Advised the Executors of a complex multi-jurisdictional estate on its administration and securing Business Property Relief from IHT on private family company shares.
Talks
'Practical Pitfalls In International Estate Administration', STEP Cross-Border Estates SIG conference - November 2016