Baker McKenzie is recommended for its expertise on complex cross-border matters, where the practice is skilled at providing technical UK tax and investment structuring advice. The firm’s significant international network provides additional resources to assist its internationally mobile clients. Ashley Crossley specialises in advising HNWIs, families and international banks on cross-border tax and trust structuring. Crossley excels in advising on asset-protection, multi-jurisdictional investment structures, as well as contentious and non-contentious trust work. Phyllis Townsend has an active practice advising trustees, family offices and HNWIs (particularly entrepreneurs and royal families).
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Ashley Crossley; Phyllis Townsend