Mark Stichbury Senior Associate

Senior Associate
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Mark advises on a broad range of tax, trust, estate and succession planning issues. His clients include both UK based and internationally based individuals, entrepreneurs, family offices and trustees.

Mark has experience advising ultra-high net worth individuals with assets in multiple jurisdictions on complex cross-border estate and succession planning issues, along with advising family offices and trustees on the trust and tax aspects of running and reorganising multi-jurisdictional trust structures.

Mark works regularly with the private client disputes team, typically on trust matters with a litigious element.

Mark also has experience in advising on the taxation and reorganisation of structures holding UK residential property.

Mark is a member of STEP (Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners) and holds the STEP Advanced Certificate in UK Tax for International Clients.

Expertise

Recent work

Cross-border succession planning

Advising an ultra-high net worth international family with significant assets in multiple jurisdictions on the succession law and tax aspects of their estate planning arrangements, including preparing wills covering assets in seven jurisdictions and co-ordinating advice from a team of international lawyers on these arrangements.

UK tax advice

Advising on the private client, UK tax aspects of a £100m fundraising by N Brown Group plc.

Pre-deemed domicile planning

Advising a UK resident, non-UK domiciled client on the tax aspects of a complicated trust and corporate structure in advance of becoming deemed domiciled in the UK for tax purposes.

Public Trustee v Cooper application

Advising in connection with a Public Trustee v Cooper style court application in Jersey by the trustees of a Jersey discretionary trust to obtain the blessing of the court for an extremely substantial distribution.

International trust work

Advising on the creation of testamentary trusts for a US/UK/Switzerland based family to hold very substantial assets, which involved particularly complex, bespoke succession provisions drafted with input from US counsel.

UK estates and trusts

Advising a UK based client on the tax and succession planning elements of a very significant inheritance connected with the family business, and on various UK trusts.

Cross-border succession planning

Advising an ultra-high-net-worth British national on cross-border succession and will planning in respect of an estate spanning numerous jurisdictions in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

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In depth

Private client review for June

Edward Reed, Mark Stichbury 25 Jun 2021
In this article, the June monthly update review for Tax Journal, Edward Reed and Mark Stichbury look at a number of private client developments.
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