Georgia Cowper-Coles Senior Associate

Senior Associate

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Georgia acts for a broad range of clients including high-net-worth individuals living in the UK and elsewhere, as well as other private client service providers such as family offices and trustees.

She advises on a wide range of private client issues such as tax, wills, and estate and succession planning. The majority of her work has an international element and includes advising non-UK domiciled clients on their pre-arrival planning, remittance issues and dynastic trust structures. She has experience working with high-net-worth individuals, entrepreneurs, family offices and trustees based both in the UK and elsewhere.

Expertise

Recent work

Trust restructuring

Advising a long-established family trust with a high-value international asset portfolio on a complex trust restructuring involving multi-jurisdictional tax and trust law issues. This involved establishing a new long-term dynastic trust structure which will operate as a multi-generational succession planning vehicle.

International structuring

Advising the family of a high-profile entrepreneur and their family holding company on the transfer of the holding company structure outside of the UK and the relocation of the family members to jurisdictions other than the UK.

HMRC investigations

Advising individuals and trustees in relation to tax investigations and disclosures relating to complex offshore structures.

Trustees and beneficiaries

Advising in connection with a long-running dispute between trustees and beneficiaries of a substantial offshore trust concerning both the historic administration of the trusts and disputes between beneficiaries about their respective interests.

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