Catharine Bell
London
Partner, Private Capital
T+44 20 7759 6727
Email CatharineAdd Catharine to my contactsExpertiseCatharine is an international trust specialist who advises both individuals and professional trustees on:
- The creation of robust trust and company structures
- Improving existing structures to fit with the clients' ultimate aims
- The targeted use of the regimes of different jurisdictions to solve clients' specific wealth planning needs
- Setting up family offices to manage the personal and trust affairs of wealthy families
- The wealth planning aspects of pre- and post-nuptial agreements and the establishment of nuptial and/or dynastic trusts prior to or following marriage
- Risk analysis in relation to trusts and other structures, and reputational management
Catharine is experienced in cross border succession planning and has an extensive knowledge and understanding of the conflict of and interplay between the laws of different jurisdictions.
She heads the international contentious trusts and estates group and regularly project manages international trust disputes between family members and trustees.
Experience
- Creating a trust structure to hold a substantial and valuable portfolio of art
- Advising a billionaire family on trust structures to avoid estate litigation on the death of the settlor
- Project managing a family dispute spanning five jurisdictions and successfully keeping the dispute confidential and out of the press
- Advising trustees on the impact of international sanctions against jurisdictions and individuals which could affect the trustees' duties
Testimonials
- Ranked as a leading individual in Chambers Global, Chambers UK and The Legal 500 UK