Alistair Robertson
Alistair Robertson
Partner | Fieldfisher
JURISDICTION
TOP SPECIALISMS
Family Office
Trusts: Planning
Tax Advisory
Office Location
United Kingdom
Short Biography
I advise international individuals and families in relation to inbound UK investment and relocating to the UK. I also advise trustees, beneficiaries, family offices, and private banks in relation to governance, succession planning and trust law. I am a leading specialist in international tax, having provided expert evidence to the High Court and being asked to consult with the UK Treasury in relation to changes to the non-UK domicile rules that were implemented in 2017. The majority of my work is cross-border, which often involves complex international treaty and conflict of law issues. However, I minimise complexity wherever possible and provide practical, commercial, usable advice. My advice encompasses both business and private assets and my clients, most of which are high profile individuals, range from technology entrepreneurs to dynastic business-owning families.
What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?
The new Wolseley just opened right next to my office so currently there..!
What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?
Be yourself
What was your first job?
I had an internship in the Civil Service - Customs & Excise, ironically
What is the book you recommend to everyone?
The Old Man and The Sea - concise and elegant, like good legal advice!
What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?
2024 is a big election year for many countries globally - change is a constant but this will be accelerated next year
Allan Dunlavy
Allan Dunlavy
Partner | Schillings
JURISDICTION
TOP SPECIALISMS
Dispute Resolution or Arbitration
Reputation and Crisis Management
Office Location
United States
Short Biography
Based in Miami, Allan leads the firm’s Digital Communications practice; assisting clients to develop and implement strategies to help build and maintain digital resilience. Recognising that the digital world continues to grow in importance for our clients, Allan’s work is primarily focused on Big Tech, online privacy and online resilience. He has worked with numerous clients seeking to enforce their rights in respect of Google, Facebook, Twitter and other Big Tech, social media and online companies. With a background in commercial, media, privacy and intellectual property litigation, Allan has a wealth of experience in managing and responding to a wide range of high-profile and complex crisis situations. He specialises in harnessing the power of Schillings’ multi-disciplinary teams to identify and mitigate risks to privacy, security, reputation and confidential information. Allan has developed and led significant transformational strategies and counselled clients to overcome the effects of a crisis.
What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?
LPM
What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?
If you have a dream, chase it, because a dream won’t chase you back
What was your first job?
Theatre backstage crew
What is the book you recommend to everyone?
Machiavelli's The Prince
What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?
Increased negative attention on wealthy individuals and families and continued global instability with more than half of the world's population going to the polls
Adil Mohamedbhai
Adil Mohamedbhai
Barrister | Serle Court
JURISDICTION
TOP SPECIALISMS
Civil Fraud
Commercial Litigation
Trusts: Contentious
Office Location
United Kingdom
Short Biography
I have a broad commercial chancery practice. I have particular expertise in high-value, multi-jurisdictional offshore, trust, private client, civil fraud and commercial disputes. I act both as sole counsel and junior counsel as part of a team of barristers. In addition to regular appearances in both the Chancery Division and the Commercial Court, I have appeared in the Court of Appeal, the UK Supreme Court and the Privy Council. I also have substantial experience appearing in, or assisting with, cases in other jurisdictions, including Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, the BVI, Jersey, Guernsey, the Bahamas and Mauritius. Prior to coming to the Bar, I qualified as a solicitor at Freshfields, where I was involved in a broad range of transactional and contentious work.
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Aidan Grant
Aidan Grant
Senior Associate | Collyer Bristow
JURISDICTION
TOP SPECIALISMS
Tax Advisory
Estates: Planning
Office Location
United Kingdom
Short Biography
Aidan is a Senior Associate in our Trusts, tax and estate planning team. He joined Collyer Bristow in September 2016 and advises resident non-domiciliaries, UK and international trustees and domestic clients on matters spanning pre-immigration planning, residency and domicile rules, international tax planning and UK wills and estate planning. In particular, Aidan’s work focuses on working with high net worth clients with UK/US interests, for example mixed domicile marriages, UK resident US citizens or UK resident beneficiaries of US trusts.
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Ajay Wiltshire
Ajay Wiltshire
Managing Director, Dubai - Saffery Trust | Saffery
JURISDICTION
United Arab Emirates, England and Wales, Guernsey
TOP SPECIALISMS
Family Office
Reputation and Crisis Management
Trusts & Trusteeship
Office Location
United Arab Emirates
Short Biography
My role is about connecting the right people to each other to deliver the most appropriate solution. Having established the Saffery Trust Dubai office, I act as the regional representative and the primary link between the firm’s non-UAE services and our network across the MENA region.
What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?
BordoMavi - Jumeirah Fishing Harbour, Dubai. Only just opened and already a firm favourite!
What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?
Take you job seriously but never yourself.
What was your first job?
Paper Round
What is the book you recommend to everyone?
This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends - Nicole Perlroth - Brilliantly researched and chilling in equal measure!
What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?
Regulatory incursion and increased risk management requirements. Counterparty risk assessment will become ever more prevalent. The shake-out from mergers and acquisitions of professional firms will continue to cause problems for practitioners and clients alike. e
Alberto Brazzalotto
Alberto Brazzalotto
Partner | Maisto e Associati
JURISDICTION
TOP SPECIALISMS
Estates: Planning
Relocation and Cross-Border Advisory
Tax Advisory
Office Location
United Kingdom
Short Biography
Alberto Brazzalotto, partner at Maisto e Associati, heads the London office since January 2023. His main area of expertise is Italian tax law, with a focus on private client matters, including taxation of trusts, estate planning, cross-border successions, restructuring of family business and relocation of high-net-worth individuals to and from Italy. He has an extensive experience also in international tax law, taxation of IPs, taxation in the sport, entertainment and art sector. He also assists clients (both domestic and international) in potential tax controversies and tax dispute resolutions through settlements. He is a TEP member of the Italian branch of STEP (The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners) and a member of PAIAM (Professional Advisors to the International Art Market).
What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?
As I work with many international clients, Italian restaurants are always a good choice.
What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?
What was your first job?
I started working as a trainee at Maisto e Associati.
What is the book you recommend to everyone?
What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?
Artificial intelligence will be part of our professional activity… We should get the best of it!
Alex Carruthers
Alex Carruthers
Partner | Hughes Fowler Carruthers
JURISDICTION
England and Wales
TOP SPECIALISMS
Family and Matrimonial
Office Location
United Kingdom
Short Biography
Alex is a founding partner at Hughes Fowler Carruthers. He specialises in complex divorce and financial work and children’s work, in particular in international cases. His clients are high net worth individuals with complex legal issues including trusts and jurisdictional disputes. Alex helped set up the Young Solicitors Family Law Association in 1998. He is a member of Resolution, the International Bar Association and a fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers. Alex is a qualified mediator and collaborative lawyer and is featured in Spear’s Family Law Index’s ‘Top Recommended Family Lawyers’ list. Alex is also listed in Tatler Address Book’s Advisory as one of the leading family lawyers in their trusted network of influential and elite private client experts with “gilt-edged” expertise. He is a trustee of the Royal Courts of Justice Citizens Advice Bureau and a regular commentator and speaker on family law.
What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?
Coopers in Winter, Spring in Summer
What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?
My father told me - "accept every invite you get"
What was your first job?
Working in Boots selling walkmans
What is the book you recommend to everyone?
The last book i read and enjoyed - It Always Changes
What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?
Hopefully a year of little change - here has been quite lot recently!
Alex Jones
Alex Jones
Partner | Rawlinson & Hunter
JURISDICTION
England and Wales, United States
TOP SPECIALISMS
Estates: Planning
Trusts: Planning
Tax Advisory
Office Location
United Kingdom
Short Biography
Alex Jones is a partner at Rawlinson & Hunter LLP, he is a dual UK and US tax private client advisor, leading the UK/US Private Client practice. He is known for providing advice and compliance services on complex cross border issues facing high net worth individuals. Alex assists fund management professionals, business owners, entrepreneurs and sports and entertainment clients. He advises on the UK and US interactions of income, capital, social security, Estate & Gift/Inheritance taxes, and the use of trusts. He is particularly noted on the application of the UK/US income and Estate and Gift Tax treaties, pension issues and the UK treatment of US LLCs.
What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?
Hispania (a different Spanish restaurant to last year)
What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?
Duck
What was your first job?
Newspaper boy
What is the book you recommend to everyone?
Straw Dogs by Will Self - (thought provoking - dare you not to write pointed comments in the margins)
What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?
All depends on a couple of elections in the UK and US. Will domicile be done away with in the UK? Will Republicans regain effective power.. Either could bring changes in thinking about UK/US Estate planning.
Alex Jones
Alex Jones
Partner | Macfarlanes
JURISDICTION
TOP SPECIALISMS
Estates: Planning
Family Office
Tax Advisory
Office Location
United Kingdom
Short Biography
Alex advises UK and international families, trustees and family offices on structuring, succession and estate planning. Most of his work is cross-border and involves families with connections to multiple jurisdictions. Alex frequently acts for entrepreneurs and their family offices, advising on structuring, tax and succession issues for complex corporate groups and family assets. He regularly advises investment fund managers and senior executives, including in relation to remuneration, carried interest and co-investment arrangements. Alex regularly advises on HMRC investigations and disputes involving individuals and trusts.
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