Recent Projects

  • Cross-border divorce, UK courts, jurisdictional issues, asset tracing and recovery.

  • Advising a HNW individual returning to the UK. Advising on residence and domicile status, pre-arrival tax planning - remittance basis and tax exposure as a shareholder of offshore companies.

  • Securing second citizenship in Malta for high net worth KSA individual

  • Advising a UHNW multi-jurisdictional family in relation to their tax and private client affairs, including offshore trusts and restructuring multi-national business interests to segregate their shareholdings in foreign business and real estate for tax and succession planning purposes.

  • Complex multi-jurisdictional probate

  • Offshore structure for Sharia avoidance

  • Advising a wealthy Middle Eastern investor on his UK tax and estate planning including the purchase and ownership of a high value UK residential property.

  • Administering the estate of a UK non-resident national with assets in several jurisdictions.

  • Advising a UHNW client on the establishment of an excluded property trust prior to becoming UK domiciled

  • Establishing UAE tax residence and business domicile for a major Russian shareholder

  • Quarterbacking cross-border divorce with assets in multiple jurisdictions - asset tracing

  • Pre-Marriage asset protection advice for wealthy entrepreneur

  • Real estate purchase in Spain combined with Golden Visa application.

  • Cross-border sale of group companies.

  • Arbitration under LCIA Rules in DIFC, Dubai

  • Specific performance and registration of real estate title in Dubai Courts.

  • Action for recovery of brokerage commission due on the asset sale of an African company group on a quantum meruit basis

  • Successfully disputing application of an arbitration dispute clause under Arbitration Act, 1991 (Ontario)

  • Establishing tax efficient corporate structure for online network marketing business - Europe/Middle East/Americas

  • Applying for a Grant of Probate in Guernsey Ecclesiastical Court

  • Applying for a Grant of Probate in Jersey

  • Applying for a Grant of Probate in England & Wales (numerous)

  • Structuring foreign grantor trust for NRI client with issue who are US citizens

  • Advising on Sharia compliant family holding structure in Masdar FZ, Abu Dhabi

  • De-enveloping holding company with London real estate held under a Jersey trust for Kuwaiti family