Families are more international than ever before. Family members spread across multiple jurisdictions, businesses operate across continents, investments span multiple jurisdictions and family members often hold different citizenships, residences and tax profiles. As those connections grow, so too does the need for coordinated legal and tax advice that brings everything together.
We help clients navigate international complexity with confidence – protecting wealth, planning for succession and creating structures that work across generations and across borders.
Our International Private Client team advise high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth individuals and families, entrepreneurs, business owners, financial services executives, hedge fund principals, private equity partners, family offices and trustees.
We help clients navigate complexity, coordinate international advice and create structures that protect family wealth for future generations. The interests of many of our clients span Europe, the Middle East, North America, Asia and offshore financial centres.
Whether the UK is central to a client’s affairs or simply one part of a wider international picture, we provide clear, strategic advice tailored to their objectives, values and long-term ambitions.
Why international families work with us
Our internationally connected clients work directly with our experienced advisers who understand both the legal, tax and succession issues, and the wider family context, to develop and support the long-term stewardship of wealth across generations.
We advise on the full lifecycle of family wealth, from tax-efficient structuring and asset protection through to succession planning, family governance and next-generation engagement.
International lives. International wealth. International solutions.
- UK tax planning for internationally mobile families
- International estate and succession planning
- Cross-border inheritance, estate and wealth taxes
- International asset protection and wealth preservation
- Asset holding structures such as trusts, family investment companies, limited partnerships
- Family governance and next-generation planning
- Relocation, residence, domicile and nationality issues
- Cross-border probate and estate administration
- Philanthropic and charitable structures
How we can help
International families face a unique combination of opportunity and complexity. Laws evolve, family circumstances change and wealth often becomes more geographically dispersed with each generation.
We frequently act as the lead adviser on international family structures, coordinating lawyers, tax advisers, fiduciaries and family office professionals across multiple jurisdictions. This ensures that legal, tax, succession and governance issues are considered as part of a single, coherent strategy rather than in isolation.
We help clients stay ahead of challenges, providing pragmatic advice, thoughtful judgement and the reassurance of having an experienced adviser by their side. We encourage families to think beyond immediate transactions and focus on lasting outcomes.
Our international reach is built on long-standing relationships with leading advisers across the world’s major financial centres. We are free to work with the advisers best suited to a client’s specific circumstances, ensuring access to the right expertise wherever it is needed.
Recent experience
- Advising a French-domiciled UHNW client on the UK tax implications of a Luxembourg-based investment structure, considering tax risks and relocation planning.
- Advising on a cross border global estate planning exercise for a UHNW Middle-Eastern family with assets located in several countries and some family members with tax connections to the UK and the US, which included the creation of bespoke family trusts and the creation of a private trust company.
- Providing UK tax and estate planning advice to a senior executive at a global asset management firm, coordinating international legal and tax advice to optimise compensation and succession planning.
- Working with a Caribbean trust company to restructure high-value family trusts, addressing settlor capacity issues and managing governance risks in a cross-border context.
- Developing a coordinated US/UK estate plan for a UK resident private equity principal and his family.
- Managing a complex estate involving multiple jurisdictions and legal systems, addressing issues arising from an unrecognised foreign divorce and forced heirship rules.
