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About
Alex advises UK and international families, trustees and family offices on structuring, succession and estate planning.
Most of Alex's work is cross-border and involves families with connections to multiple jurisdictions. He has particular experience in advising clients with connections to the US.
Alex frequently acts for entrepreneurs and their family offices, advising on structuring, tax and succession issues for complex corporate groups and family assets.
Many of his clients are founders or senior executives of private capital firms, where he advises on remuneration, carried interest and co-investment arrangements.
Alex also advises on trust law and on governance and asset protection issues relating to asset-holding structures for private clients.
Alex regularly advises on HMRC investigations and disputes involving individuals and trusts.
In 2022, Alex spent time on secondment at the London office of a large international private bank, working on a range of cross-border legal and planning issues for clients in the UK, Europe, the US and the Middle East.
Experience
- Advising a high-profile entrepreneur on a range of legal and tax issues relating to a family trust structure and significant business interests across multiple jurisdictions.
- Advising private equity and hedge fund executives on the structuring of carried interest and employment tax matters.
- Pre-arrival planning advice for individuals moving to the UK.
- Advising individuals and trustees in relation to tax investigations and disclosures relating to complex offshore structures.
- Designing a complex succession plan for a high-profile UK entrepreneur with a substantial trading business.