Alex Boothman

• Tax planning for UK- and non-UK domiciled individuals
• Asset protection and structuring advice for high-net-worth individuals and their structures
• Creation and administration of UK and non-UK trusts and corporate structures
• UK and complex cross-border probate and estate administration
• Wills, estate planning and inheritance tax
• Lasting powers of attorney
• Domicile and tax residence
• Remittance basis of taxation
• Annual Tax on Enveloped Dwellings (ATED)

• Advised an ultra-high-net-worth billionaire Dutch client and his advisers in relation to his worldwide affairs and structures including tax planning, running his trust/corporate structures, purchasing high-end residential property, purchasing and holding a very high value art collection, and investment in his family business.
• Advised one of the largest family-owned UK retail businesses in relation to a restructuring of their trust and company holding structure, asset protection, tax planning opportunities and succession planning.
• Advised an ultra-high-net-worth Swedish businessman in relation to a multimillion-pound proposed investment in a UK oil prospecting group in a tax-efficient manner.
• Advised an ultra-high-net-worth Italian family with Italian, Swiss, US and UK connections on potential inheritance/estate tax planning, asset protection and succession planning options in relation to an offshore structure which would also finance a multimillion-pound investment fund run by a family member.
• Advised an ultra-high-net-worth Swiss family in relation to their worldwide affairs, specifically advising on and selling their minority interests in a multinational retail company held through various offshore corporate and discretionary trust structures.
• Advised an ultra-high-net-worth billionaire Middle Eastern family in relation to setting up an asset protection trust structure to hold the family’s worldwide residential property, aircraft, boats and art.
• Advised an ultra-high-net-worth Russian family on the creation of an asset protection structure to hold the principal’s shares in a high-value Russian business in trust for his family. Advised a German executor in relation to a high-value and contentious complex cross-border estate with assets and beneficiaries in Germany, Luxembourg and the UK.
• Advised a senior UK judge on estate planning and preparing his Will.

Please note: The experience list above may include examples of work completed prior to joining Keystone Law.

Awarded ePrivateclient’s Top 35 Under 35 Private Client Practitioners – 2014