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Offshore structures and UK tax for non-domiciled clients

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For clients not legally domiciled in the UK, we can advise on how best to structure your assets and protect your wealth.

How we can advise you

In today’s fast-moving society, the ease of travel and communications means that there is often an international element to our clients’ financial affairs. Questions of where an individual is legally domiciled or resident can be surprisingly complex to resolve.

Our specialist practice advises clients on the opportunities and pitfalls associated with non-domiciled status in the UK. We help families and business owners to structure their assets in a way that will preserve their wealth now and for the benefit of future generations.

We advise on asset holding structures, using domestic and international trusts, foundations and companies for the purposes of asset protection and tax efficiency.

Our advice includes:

  • Creation, restructuring and termination of offshore or onshore trusts and companies
  • Using offshore or onshore trusts and other vehicles to preserve family wealth and legitimately minimise UK taxes and other claims, such as forced heirship
  • Pre-arrival planning for non-UK persons moving to the UK
  • Departure planning for UK residents, whether foreign or UK-domiciled, leaving the UK
  • Co-ordinating multi-jurisdictional tax planning for international families
  • Will and estate planning for families with cross-border estates
  • The Finance Act 2008

The team works closely with the firm’s London office, including the yachts, shipping and commercial departments to advise clients with significant multi-million pound estates.

  • How our team will work with you

    Our aim is simple: to deliver a service that allows our clients to protect, develop and ultimately pass on their wealth with complete peace of mind.

    We believe in forming strong working relationships with our clients, taking the time to understand a client’s financial and family circumstances so we can offer clear, practical advice. In many cases we have acted for several generations of the same family, and much of our work comes from word of mouth referral from existing clients and other professionals.

    As members of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) we are at the forefront of legal developments and best practice in wealth management.

  • Our clients

    Our clients are mostly private individuals from the UK and overseas and include entrepreneurs, company directors, land-owners, fellow professionals and their families. We also act for trustees and charitable organisations.

    We are invited by Camelot to provide advisory services to National Lottery winners.

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