Valerie Chui
Valerie Chui
Director - Business Development | Trident Trust Company (Singapore) Pte. Limited
JURISDICTION
Singapore
TOP SPECIALISMS
Estates: Planning
Family Office
Trusts: Planning
Office Location
Singapore
Short Biography
With a total of 10 years of industry experience, including four years spent providing trust and corporate administration services before moving into business development. Valerie has extensive knowledge of the North Asian market for private clients and expertise in establishing a broad range of structures from basic estate and legacy planning to complex trust structures for family business governance.
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Robert Desax
Robert Desax
Partner | Walder Wyss
JURISDICTION
Switzerland
TOP SPECIALISMS
Private Banking
Trusts: Planning
Tax Advisory
Office Location
Switzerland
Short Biography
Robert Desax works in the fields of national and international taxation. He represents clients in controversial tax matters and assists private clients regarding the tax aspects of estate and wealth planning. He regularly advises on cross-border implications of international taxation, especially on the application of double tax treaties, on issues in connection with the refund of Swiss withholding taxes in international structures, on the Swiss tax treatment of trusts as well as on the redomiciliation of individuals and businesses to Switzerland. In addition, he also routinely advises and represents clients on corporate tax matters. Robert Desax is a frequent speaker on tax matters and is a regular author of contributions for tax publications.
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Céline Squaratti
Céline Squaratti
Senior Associate | Walder Wyss
JURISDICTION
Switzerland
TOP SPECIALISMS
Immigration
Employment
Office Location
Geneva, Switzerland
Short Biography
Céline Squaratti is a senior associate in our Geneva office. Her expertise includes immigration and labour law. She represents our clients before the courts, in particular in employment disputes. Céline Squaratti also advises our clients on social security and insurance matters.
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Laura Luongo
Laura Luongo
Counsel | Walder Wyss
JURISDICTION
Switzerland
TOP SPECIALISMS
Immigration
Employment
Office Location
Geneva, Switzerland
Short Biography
Laura Luongo is counsel in the Employment Law Team. She regularly advises and represents our clients in all aspects of employment law, including litigation matters, primarily complex employment disputes, whether for domestic or international clients. She also advises our clients on immigration, social security and insurance matters. Her expertise also includes succession law and advising international high-net-worth individuals on asset holding structures, estate planning, relocation and philanthropy.
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Sarah Brehaut
Sarah Brehaut
Partner | Walkers
JURISDICTION
Guernsey
TOP SPECIALISMS
Commercial Litigation
Dispute Resolution or Arbitration
Trusts: Contentious
Office Location
Guernsey
Short Biography
Sarah is a partner in Walkers' Guernsey Insolvency & Dispute Resolution Group specialising in contentious trust and insolvency matters. She is an experienced court-going Advocate who frequently represents clients in respect of contentious and non-contentious matters before Guernsey's Royal Court.
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Guernsey boasts "Octopus" which is fabulous.
What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?
Drafting is an art not a science.
What was your first job?
Waitress at a deer farm, not in a cocktail bar!
What is the book you recommend to everyone?
Catcher in the Rye
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Continued blessing applications by Trustees.
Anouksha Patel
Anouksha Patel
Senior Associate | Walkers
JURISDICTION
Jersey, England and Wales
TOP SPECIALISMS
Estates: Planning
Trusts & Trusteeship
Trusts: Planning
Office Location
Jersey
Short Biography
I am a senior associate in Walkers' Jersey Private Capital & Trusts Practice Group. I practiced for over ten years in onshore private practice in London before moving to Jersey. My main focus is on advising professional trustees, settlors, beneficiaries and family offices regarding complex private wealth structures, which often include private trusts, family offices, charitable structures and foundations. My practice is mainly focused on wealth protection, multi-generation succession planning and advising on general trust administration. I also regularly advise on corporate and banking structures that include purpose trusts and private trust companies or employee benefit and pension trusts. I am fully STEP qualified and working towards being an Association of Tax Technicians (ATT) member.
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Petchi in St Helier. The menu is always evolving and the combination of Jersey and Basque style cooking is a winner!
What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?
Failure provides for opportunity. Whether it's about regrouping from a set-back, or learning to self-improve failure helps us to grow, often in ways we wouldn't have envisaged.
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A waitress for an event company.
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Continued focus on international transparency and governance. Increase in hybrid trust structures for non-traditional trust assets, particularly regarding digital assets and the evolution of data trusts.
Matthew Braithwaite
Matthew Braithwaite
Partner | Wedlake Bell
JURISDICTION
England and Wales
TOP SPECIALISMS
Trusts: Planning
Estates: Planning
Office Location
United Kingdom
Short Biography
Matt advises a wide range of UK and international clients, from individuals, families, trustees, beneficiaries and family offices on a wide range of private client issues, including UK tax, estate and succession planning. Matt acts for high net worth individuals and families including business owners, professional executives and entrepreneurs. Matt advises on the establishment and use of trusts and other wealth holding structures, and also on the succession of family trusts and businesses and governance issues.
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Rachel Morris
Rachel Morris
Senior Associate | Wedlake Bell
JURISDICTION
England and Wales
TOP SPECIALISMS
Charitable Planning and Philanthropy
Trusts: Planning
Estates: Planning
Office Location
London, United Kingdom
Short Biography
Rachel advises UK and international clients on UK tax and on trust, estate and succession matters. Many of Rachel’s clients are individuals and families who are arriving in, or leaving, the UK. She advises them on residence, domicile and their UK tax and reporting obligations. She helps clients plan for the future and provides advice on Wills, lifetime gifts and asset holding structures. Rachel also works with individual and institutional trustees. She advises them on their duties and responsibilities and drafts trust documentation.
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Sarah Fenstemaker
Sarah Fenstemaker
Counsel | Willkie Farr & Gallagher
JURISDICTION
United States
TOP SPECIALISMS
Office Location
New York, United States
Short Biography
Sarah Fenstemaker is counsel in the Private Wealth Group. Her practice involves all aspects of complex estate planning and administration, including the preparation of sophisticated estate plans for high-net worth individuals and their families, the drafting of complex wills, trust agreements and related instruments, advising clients on gift, estate and generation-skipping transfer tax matters and the administration of estates and trusts.
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Amanda Rottermund
Amanda Rottermund
Partner | Withers Bergman
JURISDICTION
United States
TOP SPECIALISMS
Art and Cultural Property
Office Location
New York, United States
Short Biography
She advises on many of the groundbreaking transactions and developments that are changing the landscape of the global art market. Amanda's work focuses on art transactions, and she deals with purchases, sales, loans, consignments, and charitable giving of works of art. She also has robust experience representing borrowers and lenders in lending transactions with fine art as collateral. Amanda works with domestic and international ultra-high net worth individuals and their families on sales and use tax, income tax, gift and transfer tax, and trust and estate planning and audits. She counsels artists and their estates on estate tax and estate administration preparedness and the logistics necessary to administer major asset-backed estates.
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