Henno Boshoff
Henno Boshoff
Counsel | Harneys
JURISDICTION
TOP SPECIALISMS
Estates: Planning
Trusts & Trusteeship
Trusts: Planning
Office Location
Singapore
Short Biography
Henno Boshoff is a member of Private Wealth and Trust practice at Harneys and based in the Singapore office. He specialises in advising institutional trustees, wealthy families and private individuals on British Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands law aspects of trust and private client transactions.
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Giles Richardson KC
Giles Richardson KC
KC | Serle Court
JURISDICTION
England and Wales, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Bermuda
TOP SPECIALISMS
Commercial Litigation
Estates: Contentious
Trusts: Contentious
Office Location
London, United Kingdom
Short Biography
Giles specialises in trusts, probate, company and fiduciary obligations litigation, both in London and offshore, as well as associated professional negligence and fraud work. He also acts in high value financial remedy actions in the Family Division.
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Gilead Cooper KC
Gilead Cooper KC
Barrister | Wilberforce Chambers
JURISDICTION
England and Wales, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands, The Bahamas, Jersey, Guernsey, Gibraltar, Hong Kong SAR
TOP SPECIALISMS
Art and Cultural Property
Estates: Contentious
Trusts: Contentious
Office Location
United Kingdom
Short Biography
Before coming to the Bar, Gilead enjoyed a brief career in publishing, editing books on photography, popular science and astronomy. He also spent a couple of years teaching in pre-revolutionary Iran. Gilead joined Wilberforce Chambers in 2015, specialising mainly in trusts and estates litigation. He has a particular interest in Art Law, as well as NFTs and digital assets. He occasionally sits as an arbitrator.
What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?
The Garrick
What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?
tantum religio potuit suadere malorum
What was your first job?
Waiter. I was terrible at it.
What is the book you recommend to everyone?
The Matter with Things, by Iain McGilchrist
What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?
The proportion of offshore work has been increasing steadily over the past few years; I hope that continues.
Gavin Ferguson
Gavin Ferguson
Partner | Ogier
JURISDICTION
TOP SPECIALISMS
Family Office
Fiduciary
Trusts & Trusteeship
Office Location
Guernsey
Short Biography
Gavin is partner in Ogier's Private Wealth team in Guernsey, and provides contentious and non-contentious fiduciary advice to high net worth individuals, corporate clients and charities. Gavin is a qualified Guernsey Advocate, BVI solicitor, English solicitor and Notary Public. Gavin also provides fiduciary services to a couple of family offices and protectorship services. He was praised for his "very high degree of expertise" in trust and private wealth work, and described as "one of the island's top trust lawyers" in client feedback cited in the Chambers and Partners UK Guide Gavin is a founding member and current Guardian of local male cancer charity, MUG; and a former member of the Board of Trustees for the Lloyds Bank Foundation. In his spare time Gavin enjoys scuba diving, boating, karate and being an embarrassing dad to his two daughters
What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?
Red
What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you
What was your first job?
Stock broker
What is the book you recommend to everyone?
Damage Done
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Fraser Allister
Fraser Allister
Managing Associate | Bedell Cristin
JURISDICTION
TOP SPECIALISMS
Trusts: Planning
Office Location
Cayman Islands
Short Biography
Fraser specialises in the creation of offshore wealth planning structures. He is qualified in BVI and the Cayman Islands. Prior to joining Bedell Cristin he worked for another offshore firm, based in the Cayman Islands, for five years. He advises trust companies, family offices, high net worth and ultra-high net worth individuals and families. He also works with onshore law firms and their clients in designing and operating wealth planning structures.
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Filippo Noseda
Filippo Noseda
Partner | Mishcon de Reya
JURISDICTION
TOP SPECIALISMS
Estates: Planning
Fiduciary
Trusts: Planning
Office Location
London, United Kingdom
Short Biography
Filippo is a Partner in Mishcon Private and a Visiting Professor at King's College, London, where he teaches International and Comparative Trust Law. A dual qualified English solicitor and Swiss lawyer (Rechtsanwalt) he advises clients on international tax and estate planning issues and is able to approach both common law and civil law issues from a practical perspective. Filippo is particularly known for his work in the area of transparency, having appeared as an expert before the Council of Europe and the EU data protection authorities in connection with the introduction of the OECD's Common Reporting Standard (CRS), FATCA and the EU's Beneficial Ownership Registers.
What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?
Margot in Covent Garden
What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?
Think all you want to say, don't say all you think.
What was your first job?
Swiss lawyer in Zurich.
What is the book you recommend to everyone?
Girl with a Dragon Tattoo
What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?
Data protection to come back.
Esmond Brown
Esmond Brown
Counsel | Appleby
JURISDICTION
TOP SPECIALISMS
Trusts & Trusteeship
Trusts: Contentious
Trusts: Planning
Office Location
Cayman Islands
Short Biography
Esmond is Counsel based in the Cayman Islands. His practice spans contentious and non-contentious trusts and private client advisory work. He advises UHNW individuals, trustees and other intermediaries and is also qualified in the BVI.
What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?
Bacaro in Cayman. A little known chain, Pizza Express in the UK.
What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?
A career is a marathon not a sprint.
What was your first job?
Selling shirts on Jermyn Street.
What is the book you recommend to everyone?
Lewin on Trusts.
What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?
More digital assets disputes and capacity issues continuing.
Elspeth Talbot Rice KC
Elspeth Talbot Rice KC
Barrister | XXIV Old Buildings
JURISDICTION
TOP SPECIALISMS
Dispute Resolution or Arbitration
Estates: Contentious
Trusts: Contentious
Office Location
United Kingdom
Short Biography
Described in the directories as "the smiling assassin" Elspeth is a highly sought after court advocate who commands a wealth of international trusts expertise. She acts in international trust matters across the globe, combining her knowledge and depth of experience with incisive legal analysis, clarity of expression, practicality, supreme approachability, energy and zest, a strong court presence and superb advocacy. A market source has said " Elspeth embodies all of the qualities we look for in our leading counsel: intellectual rigour, fierce determination, engagement with the client and the detail of the case, composure under pressure, commerciality and articulate leadership. She manages also to be highly responsive, accessible, energetic and incredibly positive. This combination of skills and personality is incredibly hard to find in one person and consequently she is much in demand in the big cases, where her sense of purpose and direction are of immense value."
What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?
MCR, Lincoln's Inn
What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?
trust your instincts and be yourself
What was your first job?
riding instructor
What is the book you recommend to everyone?
The Shardlake series and the Burton and Lamb series
What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?
greater use of AI products which are being developed.
Eleanor Morgan
Eleanor Morgan
Managing Partner, BVI | Mourant
JURISDICTION
TOP SPECIALISMS
Commercial Litigation
Dispute Resolution or Arbitration
Probate
Office Location
British Virgin Islands
Short Biography
I’m the Managing Partner and Practice Leader of the Litigation team in our BVI office. I have practised in the BVI since 2011, before which, I worked in London at Macfarlanes LLP. I have extensive experience acting on a wide range of international litigation, contentious trust and insolvency matters, with emphasis on distressed funds work. I have been involved in many of the largest offshore disputes to come before the BVI Court in recent history including advising the beneficiaries and/or trustees of BVI trusts in relation to a wide range of different issues, including breach of trust claims, contested probate disputes, beneficiaries; information requests, issues with chains of trusteeship and in cases where the trustee has been named in foreign divorce proceedings in which the settlor or a beneficiary is a party.
What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?
Sushi Bar (BVI)
What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?
Women should lift each other up (not tear each other down)
What was your first job?
Doorman at a private members' club!
What is the book you recommend to everyone?
I don't recommend books - I like cheesy page-turning chicklit
What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?
We are involved in a number of contentious probate disputes relating to very large international estates, in a way that was not common 18 months ago. I don't expect any particular changes over the next year, but things get busier and busier, with increasing probate disputes.
Edward Cumming KC
Edward Cumming KC
Barrister | XXIV Old Buildings
JURISDICTION
England and Wales, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Guernsey, Jersey, Isle of Man
TOP SPECIALISMS
Commercial Litigation
Estates: Contentious
Trusts: Contentious
Office Location
United Kingdom
Short Biography
“The perfect modern barrister” and “the absolute best”, Edward Cumming KC has acted in some of the most significant and highest-profile trust and succession litigation in recent years. He is recommended as a leading KC in nine separate categories in the latest Chambers & Partners, and eight separate categories in the latest Legal 500. The directories, which have long recognised Edward as a “lion in court”, describe him as “just an amazing individual” and “a very smooth advocate, who is persuasive, articulate and nimble on his feet”, saying “Edward is an absolute superstar. He has a phenomenal work rate, huge intellect, an elephantine memory, and [is] utterly charming with it”. “He works incredibly hard, is commercial, is an outstanding advocate and is loved by clients for being aggressive and knowing their cases inside out. He is the first name that comes to mind for any high value and difficult case”.
What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?
Tomos Parry’s Brat
What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?
Don’t believe the hype.
What was your first job?
Receptionist at the Premier Travel Inn at Tewkesbury Strensham services on the M5
What is the book you recommend to everyone?
Believe It by Nick Foles
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