Mark Stichbury Senior Counsel

Senior Counsel
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Mark advises on a broad range of tax, trust, estate and succession planning issues. His clients are mainly internationally based individuals, entrepreneurs, family offices and trustees.

Mark has particular experience advising ultra-high net worth individuals with assets in multiple jurisdictions on complex cross-border estate and succession planning issues, along with advising family offices and trustees on the trust and tax aspects of running and reorganising multi-jurisdictional trust structures.

In recent years, Mark has increasingly been working with the private client disputes team, typically on significant trust matters with a litigious element.

Mark also has also advised numerous clients on the taxation and reorganisation of structures holding UK residential property.

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

Mark was included in the eprivateclient NextGen Leaders list in 2023.

Expertise

Recent work

Cross-border succession planning

Advising an ultra-high net worth British national on an extremely complex cross-border succession and will planning matter in respect of a unique estate spanning numerous jurisdictions in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Cross-border succession planning

Advising an ultra-high net worth international family with significant assets in multiple jurisdictions on the succession law and tax aspects of their estate planning arrangements, including preparing wills covering assets in seven jurisdictions and co-ordinating advice from a team of international lawyers on these arrangements.

International trust work

Advising on the creation of testamentary trusts for a US/UK/Switzerland based family to hold very substantial assets, which involved particularly complex, bespoke succession provisions drafted with input from US counsel.

International trust work

Advising on and co-ordinating a significant multi-jurisdictional trust and company reorganisation involving two Public Trustee v Cooper style court applications in Jersey and Cayman to bless the reorganisation, and a Swiss tax ruling.

International trust litigation

Advising on a highly complex and wide-ranging dispute regarding an international trust and corporate structure, centring around the succession to a significant underlying private business. The issues arising were extremely broad in nature, covering complicated trust law issues, tax issues and HMRC investigations.

Pre-deemed domicile planning

Advising a UK resident, non-UK domiciled client on the tax aspects of a complicated trust and corporate structure in advance of becoming deemed domiciled in the UK for tax purposes.

UK estates and trusts

Advising a UK based client on the tax and succession planning elements of a very significant inheritance connected with the family business, and on various UK trusts.

UK tax advice

Advising on the private client, UK tax aspects of a £100m fundraising by N Brown Group plc.

N Brown Group plc

Advising Joshua Alliance and his bid vehicle Falcon 24 Topco Limited on personal tax aspects of the proposed £408m take-private of N Brown Group plc.

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