Iskra Doukova Senior Counsel

Senior Counsel

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Iskra advises on a broad range of private client issues, including tax, asset structuring, estate and succession planning, family governance and transparency initiatives such as the Common Reporting Standard automatic information exchange regime and the UK Trust Registration Service.

Almost all of her work has an international dimension. She acts for high-net-worth individuals and internationally mobile families (a number of whom have no significant UK connections) as well as their advisers, family offices, charities and trustees. This often involves complex international tax and estate planning, co-ordinating advice from an international team of advisers and balancing a number of (sometimes competing) family, legal and practical considerations.

Iskra has contributed the UK chapter to the STEP Handbook for Advisers on Beneficial Ownership Registers, published in August 2021, with Edward Reed.

She is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners and holds the STEP Advanced Certificate in UK Tax for International Clients.

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Cross-border trusts

Advising the trustees of an international high-value multi-trust structure on various cross-border issues, including ensuring the structure is still fit for purpose and exploring alternatives to see if the same objectives could be achieved with a simpler model.

Multi-jurisdictional estate planning

Co-ordinating a team of lawyers in four different jurisdictions on the development of complex estate planning (including via wills and lifetime structures) for an international family with a significant business and a wide range of other valuable investments around the world.

Multi-trust structure

Working with local counsel to design a multi-trust structure to receive a lifetime inheritance for a high-net-worth individual, with a particular focus on appropriate and bespoke checks and balances as between power-holders.

Pre-arrival planning

Advising families who are considering moving to or leaving the UK.

Wills and estate planning

Advising high-net-worth individuals in relation to their personal wills and estate planning.

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In depth

The Trust Registration Service: the next iteration of the regime

Iskra Doukova 18 Jun 2021

The Trust Registration Service (TRS) has been in place since 2017, implementing the Fourth Money Laundering Directive. From then on, certain express trusts with UK tax liabilities...