Mr Henry Brandts-Giesen > Dentons New Zealand > Auckland, New Zealand > Lawyer Profile

Mr Henry Brandts-Giesen

+64 9 375 1109 henry.giesen@dentons.com View profile

Work Department

Corporate and commercial, Financial services, Private wealth

Position

Partner

Career

Henry is an experienced lawyer who specialises in private wealth and financial services.

Henry’s advisory practice encompasses family trusts, foreign trusts, residency by investment, estate planning, relationship property agreements, collective investment schemes, unit trusts, superannuation schemes and employee share schemes. He is one of only a few New Zealand lawyers with true experience and expertise in international wealth structuring.

Henry assists trustees, financial institutions, accountants and other law firms to manage fiduciary risk and regulatory compliance. He is an expert in FATCA/CRS, AEOI and AML/CFT and one of only a few lawyers in New Zealand to have experience and genuine expertise in these complex compliance regimes.

Henry also has a contentious element to his practice and he is involved in the resolution of trust related disputes, the interplay between trusts and relationship dissolution and applications to court for orders relevant to trusts. Henry has represented clients in a number of reported judgments.

Henry has advised several sportsmen, performers, captains of industry and other internationally recognised individuals. He regularly advises foreign law firms, banks, accountants, financial service providers and professional trustees.

Languages

English

Memberships

Henry is a member of the Society of Trusts & Estates Practitioners.

Education

BA, LLB (2001), Dip. International Trust Management (2007)

Admissions: New Zealand (2002), Cook Islands (2004), England & Wales (2008) and British Virgin Islands (2015)