Elena Taylor
Elena Taylor
Senior Counsel - Private Wealth | Charles Russell Speechlys
JURISDICTION
TOP SPECIALISMS
Estates: Planning
Trusts: Planning
Tax Advisory
Office Location
United Arab Emirates
Short Biography
Private client lawyer advising on a wide range of private wealth matters, including personal tax, wealth structuring, succession and estate planning, family governance and global mobility.
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Devvrat Periwal
Devvrat Periwal
Partner | AC&H Legal Consultants
JURISDICTION
TOP SPECIALISMS
Corporate Law
Estates: Planning
Trusts: Planning
Office Location
United Arab Emirates
Short Biography
I regularly advise HNIs, UHNIs and family-owned businesses on succession planning, next generational transfer of wealth and corporate governance matters. In addition, I also advise corporate entities on all aspects of corporate law including new business set ups, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and shareholder related matters. I am also ranked in the High Net Worth Guide for 2021, 2022 and 2023 of Chambers and Partners.
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Anthea Peers
Anthea Peers
President, EMEA | Christie's
JURISDICTION
Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
TOP SPECIALISMS
Art and Cultural Property
Office Location
United Kingdom
Short Biography
Anthea Peers joined Christie’s in 2006, successfully developing a diversified career, prior to her current role holding the position of Global Managing Director of Private Sales (since 2019), an area of the business which saw its best year to date in 2021, leading the market with $1.7B in private sales. Prior to this, Anthea was Client Strategy Director for the Classic Art Group and led plans for the then new Classic Week series of sales, now a regular auction fixture globally at Christie’s. She has also worked as Business Director in Old Masters, as a paralegal, in client development, and across many departments including 20/21, and Estates, Appraisals and Valuations. Anthea has been at Christie’s for 17 years. In this leadership role for EMEA, based in London, Anthea joins Christie’s dynamic team of regional presidents, alongside Bonnie Brennan, President Americas, Cécile Verdier, President France, and Francis Belin, President Asia Pacific.
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Andrea Moja
Andrea Moja
Attoreny at law | SLCLEX
JURISDICTION
Italy, United Arab Emirates
TOP SPECIALISMS
Relocation and Cross-Border Advisory
Trusts: Planning
Tax Advisory
Office Location
Italy
Short Biography
Andrea Moja is constantly engaged in complex, high-profile international transactions. Andrea advises wealthy families, family offices, trustees and private banks on a range of trusts and wealth planning structuring matters. He advises high-net worth individuals in the transfer of residency to Italy under the recent new flat tax regime applicable to new Italian residents. He has accrued experience also with clients from Sharia jurisdictions (Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Uae). He has appeared before several international commercial arbitral tribunals (either as counsel or as arbitrator) based in Paris, London, Brussels, Stockholm, dealing with disputes covering a wide variety of jurisdictions and sectors. He is Professor of International Business Law at LIUC in Castellanza University, and a member of STEP Italy’s scientific committee as well as an Academician of the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law (TIAETL).He is also Vice-president of The European Arbitration Chamber in Brussels. (https://chea-taic.be).
What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?
Il Salumaio di Montenapoleone
What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?
Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do. J.P. MORGAN
What was your first job?
ATTORNEY AT LAW
What is the book you recommend to everyone?
"The master and Margarita" M. Bulgakov
What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?
More cross-border operations involving trust structures at the international level
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.
Alice Dumoitier
Alice Dumoitier
Client Services Director | Equiom (Jersey) Limited
JURISDICTION
Hong Kong SAR, Singapore, Europe, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia
TOP SPECIALISMS
Fiduciary
Trusts & Trusteeship
Trusts: Contentious
Office Location
Jersey
Short Biography
Alice Dumoitier is a Client Services Director of Equiom (Jersey) Limited responsible for overseeing a portfolio of diverse HNW clients. Her accountancy background enables her to understand the detailed aspects of complex transactions and to provide invaluable guidance for her clients when considering tax and legal advice. With her detailed technical knowledge she assists clients in finding pragmatic solutions to issues as they arise, as well as keeping them abreast of ongoing legislative and regulatory changes. Working closely with our Asian offices, Alice acts as global relationship lead on a number of Equiom’s international/multi asset clients in Asia and the Middle East. As a professional director of a PTC she has been involved in complex litigation through which her experience as a professional trustee has helped guide both the family and her lay trustees through some very complex issues, giving her a unique perspective on contentious trust matters.
What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?
Feast on Gorey Pier
What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them' - Einstein
What was your first job?
Trainee bookkeeper
What is the book you recommend to everyone?
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?
The focus will most likely be on possible changes to the UK Non-dom legislation and IHT.
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