About
George advises on a broad range of private client matters, including tax, estate and succession planning, wills and trusts.
George's clients include high-net-worth individuals, family offices and trustees. The majority of his work has an international element and involves cross-border issues.
Much of George's work also has a contentious element and involves trust disputes.
Experience
- Advising on a highly complex and wide-ranging dispute regarding an international trust and corporate structure, centring around the succession to a significant underlying private business. The issues arising were extremely broad in nature, covering complex trust law issues, tax issues and HMRC investigations.
- Advising a fund founder on their departure from the UK on tax, trust law, succession and charity issues and coordinating related advice from a number of different jurisdictions.
- Advising an ultra-high-net-worth British national on an extremely complex cross-border succession and will planning matter relating to a unique estate spanning numerous jurisdictions in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
- Advising a family with UK and French connections on the UK tax consequences of the creation of a usufruct.