Office Location

Singapore

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Samantha Ng is a senior legal associate in the private client and tax team at Withers KhattarWong. She advises individuals and families on matters relating to their trusts, family governance/constitution and family/shareholders' agreements. She also assists with establishing family offices, private trust companies and family charities. She helps clients with developing efficient holding structures and succession plans, not just for their personal bankable wealth but also for their real estate investments, and their family businesses. Prior to joining Withers KhattarWong, Samantha was an associate in a boutique private client firm which regularly advised and represented private banks and ultra high net worth individuals on complex trust structuring and in contentious trust matters.

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Office Location

London, United Kingdom

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Sarah is a senior associate in Withers' trust, estate and inheritance disputes team. She advises on all types of domestic and international probate disputes including issues relating to the validity of wills and trusts and claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975. She also specialises in on and offshore trust litigation including claims for removal of protectors or trustees, access to trust information, Mistake, Variation and directions applications. She has experience on cases in jurisdictions including the Jersey, Guernsey, Switzerland, Bermuda, BVI, Cayman, the Isle of Man and Nevis.Together with other members of the team Sarah also advises on professional negligence actions in the context of trusts and estates.

What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?

Cafe du Marche

What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?

Focus on the closest crocodile first

What was your first job?

Waitress

What is the book you recommend to everyone?

How to kill your family

What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?

AI starting to make a real impact

Office Location

United Kingdom

Short Biography

I work with UK based and international individuals with a particular focus on taxation of PE and hedge fund manager remuneration, taxation of entrepreneurs, employees and director remuneration and incentives, plus managing risks for non-UK entities where a UK individual creates a UK nexus for such entity. I also advise more widely, on all areas of wealth planning, often from the start point of an individual coming to (or leaving) the UK in the context of the UK statutory residence rules and the remittance basis of taxation. A significant area of my practice is advising individuals and families (and their family offices) for whom a key concern is succession of their wealth / family businesses down the generations with a view to stewardship, whilst also ensuring asset protection, privacy and tax efficiency.

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Office Location

United Kingdom

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Natalie advises high-net-worth individuals, senior executives and organisations on cross-border investigations and enforcement in respect of allegations of all aspects of financial crime including fraud, money laundering, bribery, tax evasion and sanctions violations. She has a wealth of experience formulating offensive and defensive global litigation strategies for international clients. Increasingly she is called upon to investigate and advise in respect of allegations of serious non-financial misconduct that impact on individuals and organisational culture.

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Increased corporate accountability in respect of all aspects of financial and non-financial misconduct with a renewed focus on also seeking to hold senior executives to account.

Office Location

United Kingdom

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Natasha specialises in resolving trust and succession disputes both onshore and offshore, including trustee/beneficiary disputes, contested probate and 1975 Act claims, and professional negligence in the context of estate planning and trust administration. She also advises on Court of Protection matters, including statutory wills, lifetime gifts, contested registrations and Powers of Attorney.

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Office Location

United Kingdom

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Jessica advises HNW and high profile individuals and corporate clients in the media and entertainment industries. In the reputation management space, Jessica advises clients on pre- and post-publication matters, including litigation. Over the past year, Jessica has advised UHNW and high-profile individuals, and corporates, helping them navigate their crises and advising against national newspapers, search engines, social media platforms and international publications. Jessica was an integral member of the team that won “Case of the Year” at Spear’s Wealth Management Awards 2018 for the team’s representation of Sir Cliff Richard in his privacy case against the BBC. Jessica has been ranked as a “Rising Star” in the Legal 500 since 2019 for defamation and privacy matters and in the Spears Reputation Managers Index of Reputation & Privacy Lawyers since 2020. Jessica has also been named as an “Associate to Watch” in the latest 2024 Chambers UK guide.

What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?

The Palomar, Soho

What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?

Always work hard, it will pay off in the end

What was your first job?

I worked as a strawberry picker when I was 14.

What is the book you recommend to everyone?

The Secret History, Donna Tart

What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?

Development surrounding the SLAPPs issue, potentially involving legislation or regulatory reform which may have an impact on the way in which we work.

Office Location

Italy

Short Biography

Andrea Moja is constantly engaged in complex, high-profile international transactions. Andrea advises wealthy families, family offices, trustees and private banks on a range of trusts and wealth planning structuring matters. He advises high-net worth individuals in the transfer of residency to Italy under the recent new flat tax regime applicable to new Italian residents. He has accrued experience also with clients from Sharia jurisdictions (Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Uae). He has appeared before several international commercial arbitral tribunals (either as counsel or as arbitrator) based in Paris, London, Brussels, Stockholm, dealing with disputes covering a wide variety of jurisdictions and sectors. He is Professor of International Business Law at LIUC in Castellanza University, and a member of STEP Italy’s scientific committee as well as an Academician of the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law (TIAETL).He is also Vice-president of The European Arbitration Chamber in Brussels. (https://chea-taic.be).

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Il Salumaio di Montenapoleone

What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do. J.P. MORGAN

What was your first job?

ATTORNEY AT LAW

What is the book you recommend to everyone?

"The master and Margarita" M. Bulgakov

What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?

More cross-border operations involving trust structures at the international level

Office Location

France

Short Biography

Aude is a partner at Steering Legal with over 10 years' experience advising private clients in domestic and international contexts. Prior to joining Steering Legal, Aude was a partner at Opleo Avocats. Her practice has been recognized in several rankings (Legal 500, Décideurs). Aude specializes in tax and wealth management issues, including inheritance and family law, business transfers and structuring, art and philanthropy. She plays a key role in advising family-owned business leaders and senior executives on private equity buyouts and exits. She also has extensive experience in assisting individuals with tax and wealth disputes.

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Attorney

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Integrating AI for the benefit of the lawyer and the client is a major challenge.

Office Location

Hong Kong SAR

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With near a decade of experience in international development and the NGO sector, Tze-wei brings deep knowledge of charities and social impact to her advice to philanthropic foundations and private clients. She regularly speaks and writes about "wealth for good" and is known for her understanding of the increased mixed use of non-profit and for-profit tools in structuring "for good" legal vehicles. She is also active in advising on family office setup, family governance and succession, and integration of ESG across family philanthropy, investment and business. She was involved in setting up some of Hong Kong’s earliest social finance platforms, and she advises companies that are interested in the B Corp certification. She serves as board director of several Hong Kong charities, and is a founding board member of the international lawyer group Global Alliance of Impact Lawyers (GAIL). She is recognised as a Legal 500 APAC Rising Star.

What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?

Seafood on an island

What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?

"To the world you may be one person; to one person you may be the world." (Dr Sriprapha at a pro bono conference - and apparently Dr Seuss too!)

What was your first job?

Intern reporter at a newspaper

What is the book you recommend to everyone?

Sapiens

What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?

More discussion about family office and family governance with the transfer of wealth happening in this part of the world; more cross border movement of people; more discussions around what private wealth can do for climate change (from strategic philanthropy to blended finance)