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Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP

ADELAIDE HOUSE, LONDON BRIDGE, LONDON, EC4R 9HA, ENGLAND
Tel:
Work 020 7760 1000
Fax:
Fax 020 7760 1111
DX:
92 LONDON CHANCERY LANE WC2
Web:
www.blplaw.com
Email:

Jonathan Kropman

Tel:
Work +44 20 3400 1000
Email:
Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP

Work Department

Tax, trusts and personal tax planning.

Position

Partner and head of trusts and personal tax planning group. Works on offshore holdings, family office governance and office structures, family agreements and structure resolution, shareholders’ and investment agreements, negotiating share valuations and handling asset tracing; relationship management agreements for ultra-high-net-worth individuals and families. Also acts for family office companies, start-ups and in the commercialisation of ideas and inventions often for grant making and receiving bodies.

Career

Trained Paisner & Co (now Berwin Leighton Paisner); qualified 1981; assistant solicitor Paisner & Co 1981-86; appointed partner 1986; graduate recruitment partner 1990; group head 1992; publications: contributor to Butterworths ‘Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precendents’, Volume 14 of 5th Edition.

Education

City of London School; Manchester University (LLB).

Leisure

Family; member of the Athenaeum and Worshipful Company of Basketmakers; the outdoors and skiing.

Practice Areas

Charities and not-for-profit; Private client; Tax - international

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