Overview

The use of international trusts continues to expand, and practitioners increasingly need to be aware of cross-border considerations. This title provides a concise and practical overview of the key aspects of law and practice in all the key jurisdictions offering trusts. Private and commercial trusts are established under the law of an increasing number of jurisdictions, which are competing to attract trust business, and these laws are often dissimilar. As international trusts mature, established trust jurisdictions are changing their laws to comply with the legal demands and standards imposed by international agencies, as well as to meet the legitimate expectations of the institutional investor. The courts of international centres are also developing their own jurisprudence. In addition, jurisdictions new to trusts are introducing trusts in the vehicles which they offer investors, and legislation from these new trust centres is opening up new routes for international investment and tax mitigation. This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the subject, covering all the key on-shore and off-shore jurisdictions that practitioners typically encounter. It offers a very practical overview of the subject using a questionnaire format for each country, avoiding academic material, and giving concise answers to the sorts of frequently asked questions that arise in trust law and practice. The questionnaire covers a full range of subjects such as the mechanics of trusts, issues such as anti-money laundering laws and conflicts of laws, shams, protectors, and forced heirship as well as the different types of trusts used in a jurisdiction.Formerly an annual special issue in the journal Trusts & Trustees, this title has been improved and extended with a reworked questionnaire, new countries and contributors, and new editors, Charles Gothard and Sanjvee Shah.

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Author:   Charles Gothard (, Partner, Macfarlanes LLP) ,  Sanjvee Shah (, Partner, Speechly Bircham LLP)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.90cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 25.30cm
Weight:   1.177kg
ISBN:  

9780199551576

ISBN 10:   019955157
Pages:   608
Publication Date:   04 March 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Introduction 2: John O Dyrud: Anguilla 3: Anthony D'Aniello: Antigua and Barbuda 4: John Stumbles, John King, Heidi Machin: Australia 5: Earl Cash: Bahamas 6: Mary Mahabir: Barbados 7: Alec Anderson, Stephanie Bernard: Bermuda 8: Naresh Chand: British Virgin Islands 9: Timothy Youdan: Canada 10: Tony Pursall, Justin Appleyard: Cayman Islands 11: Hao Wang, Yi Zhou: China 12: Ronnie Summers: Cook Islands 13: Elias Neocleous, Philippos Aristotelous: Cyprus 14: Edward Reed: England and Wales 15: Peter Montegriffo, Raquel Moss: Gibraltar 16: St John Robilliard: Guernsey 17: Mark Lea: Hong Kong 18: Hanisha Amesur, Bijal Ajinka: India 19: Paraic Madigan, Jennifer Tuite: Ireland 20: John Rimmer: Isle of Man 21: Alon Kaplan, Lyat Eyal, Yigal Harkavy: Israel 22: Paolo Giacommetti, Giovanni Cristofaro: Italy 23: Alan Dart: Jersey 24: Bernhard Lorenz, Martin Attlmayr: Liechtenstein 25: Anthony Cremona: Malta 26: Muhammad Uteem: Mauritius 27: Donald Manasse: Monaco 28: Geoffrey Cone: New Zealand 29: Ramses Owens: Panama 30: Simon Mitchell: Seychelles 31: Leon Kwong Wing: Singapore 32: Jennifer Booth: South Africa 33: Najhdla Dilsuk, Nicholas John: St. Lucia 34: Edgar Paltzer, Patrick Schmutz: Switzerland 35: Dina Kapur Sanna, Natalia Murphy: United States: New York

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provide[s] practitioners with a valuable international perspective and is a useful reference work surveying most, if not all, of the ever-expanding trust world. * Keith Robinson, Step Journal *

provide[s] practitioners with a valuable international perspective and is a useful reference work surveying most, if not all, of the ever-expanding trust world. Keith Robinson, Step Journal

Author Information

Charles Gothard is a Partner at Macfarlanes LLP. He specialises in advising UK and foreign clients in relation to their UK and offshore trust interests and personal affairs. He also has significant experience of contentious UK and international trust and probate work - resolving disputes between trustees or executors and beneficiaries. Sanjvee Shah is a Partner in the Private Client Department at Speechly Bircham LLP.

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