Expertise, judgment and sensitivity are key requirements when advising on protection of your assets, estate planning and privacy. Your Conyers team has long standing experience of trust law and structures in Bermuda, the BVI and the Cayman Islands.

Overview

Longevity & Experience

Rely on us to deliver solutions specifically tailored to your requirements. We offer you one of the most experienced international offshore private client and trust teams in the world.  From our offices in Bermuda, the BVI, the Cayman Islands, Hong Kong, London and Singapore, together with leading onshore tax and legal advisers, we advise significant net worth and high-profile business owners, family-owned businesses, entrepreneurs, charitable entities and professional trustees.

Our private client team is complemented by experienced trust litigators who are regularly involved acting for trustees, protectors and beneficiaries in substantial trust litigation.

Intelligent solutions

Our depth of experience allows us not only to deliver a high level of technical advice on trust law and structures in Bermuda, the BVI and the Cayman Islands, but also to add value by sensitively providing creative solutions to the challenging dynamics of managing family and business assets in the complex modern world, across international borders.

International scope

Through our global network of offices and close relationships with leading onshore tax and legal advisers, we serve a diverse international group of clients ranging from individuals and families to corporate entities. These include significant net worth and high-profile business owners, family-owned businesses, entrepreneurs, charitable entities and professional trustees.

Comprehensive offering

Conyers has the expertise to meet all your private client needs, from establishing trusts, to restructuring in response to changing tax or family circumstances, to ongoing trust administration.  Our private client team is complemented by experienced trust litigators who are regularly involved in substantial trust litigation, acting for trustees, protectors and beneficiaries.

Our services include:

  • Dynastic estate planning
  • Designating ownership structures of substantial family businesses
  • Corporate governance of cross-border structures for private trust companies to bolster the substance of family and business succession planning
  • Restructuring trusts to extend the duration of a trust,  to improve tax efficiencies or adapt to changes in family circumstances
  • Creation of charitable and philanthropic foundations,  purpose trusts, employee benefit trusts, BVI VISTA trusts and Cayman STAR trusts
  • Advising on fiduciary decision-making and related issues and trustee liability issues
  • Advising on regulatory issues affecting trusts
  • Prenuptial agreements and protection of trusts from divorce
  • Customised reporting solutions for both FATCA and CRS compliance

Contacts

Craig W. MacIntyre

Director, Co-Head of Bermuda Private Client and Trust

Bermuda

Helen E. Cooper

Director, Co-Head of Bermuda Private Client and Trust

Bermuda

Robert Lindley

Partner, Head of Cayman & BVI Private Client & Trust

British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands

Lana Dixon

Senior Associate

Cayman Islands

Matthew Brown

Partner

British Virgin Islands

All Private Client & Trust Contacts

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