Tax issues on stake sales and investment into managers: structuring, pitfalls and steps to take now
About
Sebastian specialises in advising wealthy families on tax and succession issues. Much of his work has an international dimension and many of his clients have no connection with the UK.
He advises on the creation and operation of asset-holding structures and family offices. He also advises on tax investigations and litigation involving family trusts.
Sebastian advises many UK and non-UK based families on their tax position, both in the UK and internationally. In 2003 he spent six months on secondment with the trusts and estates group of a leading New York law firm and, as a result of this experience, much of his work has a US dimension.
Sebastian has lectured in the UK, the US and further afield.
Sebastian became senior partner on 1 May 2020.
Experience
- Advising on asset holding structuring for a family with interests in the US, the UK and their home jurisdiction.
- Advising on an investigation conducted by HMRC into the central management and control of a non-UK group of companies.
- Advising on litigation involving claims of personal liability for debt and alleged breach of trust against a Guernsey based trustee.
- Advising on the taxation of carried interest for founders of a significant private equity management business.
- Advising in relation to the reorganisation of the business interests of a UK entrepreneur and the creation of his family office.