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


Alicea Castellanos

Alicea Castellanos

CEO & Founder  |  Global Taxes
JURISDICTION

United States

TOP SPECIALISMS

Accountancy

Relocation and Cross-Border Advisory

Tax Advisory

Office Location

United States

Short Biography

With 20 years of experience, Alicea specializes in U.S. tax planning and compliance for non-U.S. families with global wealth and asset protection structures which include non-U.S. trusts, estates and foundations that have a U.S. connection. Alicea is an active member of the Society of Trusts & Estates Practitioners (STEP), the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants (NYSSCPAs), the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the International Fiscal Association (IFA). Alicea was awarded with a prestigious NYSSCPA 40 Under 40 Award, selected as having notable skills and visibly making a difference in the profession. In 2021 and 2022, Alicea was the Gold and Silver Winner, respectively, of Citywealth's Powerwomen Awards in the category USA - Woman of the Year - Business Growth (Boutique). In 2023, she continued her winning streak by receiving the Gold award for Company of the Year Female Leadership (Boutique).

What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?

It depends. Le Bilboquet for lunch is good. Avena for dinner is good too.

What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?

Ask for what you want.

What was your first job?

International tax associate at Ernst & Young LLP.

What is the book you recommend to everyone?

None I can think of in English.

What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?

More technology


Alexandra Crean

Alexandra Crean

Senior Associate  |  Nixon Peabody
JURISDICTION

TOP SPECIALISMS

Relocation and Cross-Border Advisory

Trusts: Planning

Tax Advisory

Office Location

Massachusetts, United States

Short Biography

I am in NP’s Private Clients Group and am a member of our International Private Clients Team. I represent clients in estate planning, estate and trust administration, and tax planning matters with a focus on working with international clients, their families, their advisors, and their fiduciaries.

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Adriana Riviere-Badell

Adriana Riviere-Badell

Partner  |  Kobre & Kim
JURISDICTION

TOP SPECIALISMS

Civil Fraud

Estates: Contentious

Trusts: Contentious

Office Location

United States

Short Biography

Adriana Riviere-Badell is an experienced advocate who concentrates her practice on high-profile contentious trust and estate disputes, complex multi-jurisdictional civil litigation — including appellate proceedings — and international judgment enforcement and asset recovery, with a focus on Latin America. Ms. Riviere-Badell has been involved in some of the highest-profile cases in South Florida, including the successful representation of Raoul Weil, the former head of global wealth management at UBS who was acquitted of conspiracy to defraud the IRS. Earlier in her career, Ms. Riviere-Badell was a financial associate with a large accounting firm, where she specialized in fraud investigations, corporate bankruptcy, corporate recovery, and related litigation issues. She is a native Spanish speaker.

What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?

Ceviche 105

What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?

Listen more than you speak

What was your first job?

Working with my parents in their import/export business

What is the book you recommend to everyone?

1984

What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?

Increased investigation/prosecution of individuals in the US for fraud-related conduct


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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Alex Chung

Alex Chung

Partner  |  Withersworldwide
JURISDICTION

TOP SPECIALISMS

Probate

Trusts: Planning

Tax Advisory

Office Location

Hong Kong SAR

Short Biography

Dual qualified in Hong Kong and New York, Alex's practice covers trust and estate planning, US taxation and cross-border probate matters. Alex is trilingual (Cantonese, English and Mandarin). His typical clients are ultra-high-net-worth individuals with both Hong Kong and US connections.

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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.


Adam Streisand

Adam Streisand

Partner, Chair of Private Wealth and Fiduciary Litigation  |  Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton
JURISDICTION

TOP SPECIALISMS

Trusts: Contentious

Office Location

United States

Short Biography

As explained recently by the Los Angeles Business Journal, If you’ve seen it on HBO’s “Succession,” Adam Streisand has litigated it (and much more) in real life. Celebrities, musicians, pro sports franchises, athletes, and some of the world’s wealthiest individuals and families turn to Streisand for battles over inheritance, fiduciary conduct and business succession. While Streisand is known for his sweeping victories in high-profile courtroom battles involving celebrity estates, he has also become the go-to trial lawyer whenever the fate of a national sports franchise is on the line, including trust wars over control of the LA Lakers, LA Clippers, LA Chargers and Baltimore Orioles. Streisand also earned acclaim as Britney Spears’ first choice of attorney in her conservatorship case.

What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?

Spago

What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?

Anyone can say he’s Muhammad Ali, but someday he has to step in the ring and prove it.

What was your first job?

Grocery store stock boy

What is the book you recommend to everyone?

Gentleman in Moscow

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