William Easun
William Easun
Partner | Legal Adviser Monaco
JURISDICTION
TOP SPECIALISMS
Estates: Planning
Probate
Relocation and Cross-Border Advisory
Office Location
Monaco
Short Biography
Attended Haileybury College, England. Parts 1 and 11 Guildford Law Gollege. Qualified in England & Wales in 1979. Attended French Univarsity (Aix-en-Provence Law Faculty). Lived/worked/partner in Monaco of Frere Cholmeley Bischoff/Eversheds/Lawrence Graham. Director Christie's Monaco (1990 to 2000). Created own firm Tempest Legal in Monaco in 2012. Specialising in High Net Worth, Immigration, Estate & Tax Planning, Wills & Trusts, Estate Administration, Regulatory/Banking/Financial Services
What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?
Automobile Club Monaco
What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?
Don't believe your own publicity
What was your first job?
Labourer in French textile factory
What is the book you recommend to everyone?
Le Grand Meaulnes
What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?
Inexorable rise in technology
May Lolli-Ghetti
May Lolli-Ghetti
Partner | Interlaw Monaco SAM
JURISDICTION
TOP SPECIALISMS
Estates: Planning
Real Estate
Tax Advisory
Office Location
Monaco
Short Biography
I am a partner at Interlaw Monaco SAM, an independent international boutique law firm based in the Principality of Monaco. My clients are HNWI and international families, family offices and businesses. I advise them on a variety of international private law aspects, including asset structuring, wealth preservation, tax and succession planning typically in a cross-border context. I am member of the Paris and New York Bars and a full STEP member.
What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?
What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?
What was your first job?
Associate at Pavia & Harcourt LLP (NYC)
What is the book you recommend to everyone?
What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?
Jean-Charles Gardetto
Jean-Charles Gardetto
Attorney - Managing Partner | Gardetto Law Offices
JURISDICTION
TOP SPECIALISMS
Estates: Contentious
Family and Matrimonial
Immigration
Office Location
Monaco
Short Biography
Jean-Charles S. GARDETTO was admitted in Monaco in 1988, and is the founder of the Gardetto Law Offices. He was the President of the Monaco Bar. Jean-Charles practices family law (matrimonial, estates, child custody, child abuse, protection of vulnerable adults), immigration law, international private law, business law, and white collar crime. His clients include HNWI and Multinational companies. His practice has a strong international dimension. It includes litigation and advisory work. He also assists clients wishing to settle in Monaco. He holds an LL.M. from Cornell Law School and a DESS from the University of Aix-Marseille III. He was the Chairman of the External Relations Committee of the Monaco Parliament, (2003-2013) and the Vice-President of the Council of Europe and OSCE Parliamentary Assemblies. He is also a TEP and a member of the IAFL and TIAETL.
What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?
La Piazza
What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?
Do not trust anybody
What was your first job?
Lawyer
What is the book you recommend to everyone?
The Leopard (Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa)
What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?
use of more AI applications
Helen Butterfield
Helen Butterfield
Senior Private Banker | Coutts & Co
JURISDICTION
England and Wales, Switzerland, Monaco, Gibraltar, Jersey
TOP SPECIALISMS
Family Office
Private Banking
Office Location
London, United Kingdom
Short Biography
I am a Senior Private Banker with over 20 years experience looking after European and US private clients and their families. I provide advice to help them navigate the unique opportunities and challenges facing families of wealth and co-ordinate their financial affairs to ensure their wealth is sustained and aligned to their family ambitions. I help build a team around clients using other Private Client Global Elite members when required, combining the expertise of Coutts to build a flexible financial strategy designed to ensure wealth is suitably structured and that capital is used efficiently.
What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?
Has to be the amazing Coutts dining rooms at 440 Strand
What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?
Be reliable! Clients love that i am always on hand to help and guide
What was your first job?
Serving Champagne at Ascot
What is the book you recommend to everyone?
The Silk Road
What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?
I think there may be changes linked to new tax policies but we roll with the changes and embrace the chance to connect with our clients.