Harbottle & Lewis LLP

Private Client

Alasdair advises individuals, families and fiduciaries based in the UK and overseas in relation to all matters of international taxation, wealth structuring, global compliance and cross-border estate planning.

This includes tax and legal advice to wealth generators or custodians who are moving between countries, seeking to maintain tax efficiency across multiple jurisdictions or passing ownership or control to the next generation.

Alasdair has significant experience in advising US-UK clients, individual entrepreneurs and family businesses. He also has a particular interest in clients connected to civil law jurisdictions, in particular France, Belgium and Switzerland, as well as to Latin America and the Middle East.

Alasdair is a full member of STEP and was named a “Rising Star” in The Legal 500 2024. He previously spent nine months on secondment to a multi-family office headquartered in London.

Alasdair speaks English, French, Spanish and German.

Alasdair holds law degrees obtained in England and in France (Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne).