K. Eli Akhavan
K. Eli Akhavan
Partner | Grant Herrmann Schwartz & Klinger
JURISDICTION
TOP SPECIALISMS
Estates: Planning
Trusts: Planning
Tax Advisory
Office Location
United States
Short Biography
Eli Akhavan is a Partner at GHSK LLP and focuses his practice on tax and estate planning for high net-worth US and non-US clients. He advises domestic and international individuals and families with respect to tax and estate planning for their US assets and beneficiaries and incorporates dynasty trust planning for his clients. Eli also advises cross-border clients on all aspects of international estate matters, including foreign trusts, pre-immigration and expatriation planning, and on structuring investments in US real estate and US financial assets. Eli's practice also includes advising clients on the formation of private trust companies for purposes of wealth management and privacy. Additionally, Eli practices in the area of cross-border asset protection planning.
What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?
Reserve Cut in NYC
What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?
Seek the highest standards
What was your first job?
Currency trading
What is the book you recommend to everyone?
Executive Toughness by Dr. Jason Selk
What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?
Increasing focus on income tax planning in the context of global mobility
Basil Zirinis
Basil Zirinis
Partner | Sullivan & Cromwell
JURISDICTION
United States, United Kingdom, Latin America, Singapore, Hong Kong SAR, China, Middle East
TOP SPECIALISMS
Estates: Planning
Family Governance and Business
Trusts: Contentious
Office Location
United States
Short Biography
Basil Zirinis has been a partner in S&C’s Estates and Personal Group since 1994 and leads its international private client practice from London and New York. He represents individuals, fiduciaries and family-controlled businesses throughout the world in a broad range of matters, including domestic and international estate and trust planning, family business governance and transition, estate and trust administration and litigation. He speaks regularly at international conferences regarding U.S. and international tax and estate planning.
What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?
Oswald's in London
What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?
The safest place is at your desk
What was your first job?
Painting docks in a marina
What is the book you recommend to everyone?
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?
An increased focus by clients on strengthening their structures to anticipate crises that had become almost unthinkable, such as a major war in Europe.
Andrea Baroni
Andrea Baroni
Wealth Advisor | Capital Trustees AG
JURISDICTION
Switzerland, Europe, LatAm, Middle East
TOP SPECIALISMS
Family Office
Trusts & Trusteeship
Trusts: Planning
Office Location
Switzerland
Short Biography
Andrea is responsible for the company's global strategies for multinational groups, private estates of prominent international UHNW families and non-profit organizations. In over thirty years of experience in banking and wealth planning in Switzerland and the UK, he has covered primary positions in the senior management of bank-owned trustee companies and on the boards of international groups. Specialized in International Tax and Trust Law at King's College London (LL.M.), Andrea is TEP and a member of the International Fiscal Association (IFA), as well as a Chartered Accountant in Switzerland.
What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?
Il Baretto in Milan
What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?
Do one thing at a time
What was your first job?
Financial analyst at Salomon Brothers
What is the book you recommend to everyone?
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?
AI integration will further accelerate our daily professional activities.