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Conyers

Offshore: Trusts

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

Conyers can 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 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

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Offshore: Trusts - Bermuda

Band 1

What the Team is Known For

Conyers is respected for its ability to advise on high value, international trust matters. As well as trusts structuring, the firm represents clients involved in significant commercial and trusts disputes.

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Strengths

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  • Conyers has great strength in depth. Its lawyers are really commercial, responsive and everything you could want in that jurisdiction.

    Offshore: Trusts respondentHigh Net Worth

  • The Conyers team is an all-round class act. It knows everything there is to know about trusts in Bermuda.

    Offshore: Trusts respondentHigh Net Worth

  • Conyers strength is the scale, experience and depth of the team.

    Offshore: Trusts respondentHigh Net Worth

Notable Practitioners

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  • Craig W MacIntyre
    Craig W MacIntyre

    Craig W MacIntyre

    Craig MacIntyre is co-head of Conyers' Bermuda private client and trust practice. He assists clients with estate planning, asset protection and trusts matters.

    • Craig MacIntyre is superb with clients and a very good lawyer.

      Offshore: Trusts respondentHigh Net Worth

    • Craig is very statesmanlike. He has huge knowledge of international trust law and structuring. He has seen and done it all.

      Offshore: Trusts respondentHigh Net Worth
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  • Helen Cooper
    Helen Cooper

    Helen Cooper

    Helen Cooper is co-head of the firm's Bermuda private client and trust practice. She advises clients on noncontentious private wealth matters, including those concerning private trust companies.

    • Helen Cooper is extremely diligent and very detailed. She puts in the hard graft to understand the minutia of the arrangements and makes wise decisions based on that.

      Offshore: Trusts respondentHigh Net Worth

    • Helen Cooper is technically excellent and extremely meticulous.

      Offshore: Trusts respondentHigh Net Worth
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  • Anna Bruce-Smith
    Anna Bruce-Smith

    Anna Bruce-Smith

    Anna Bruce-Smith is a Legal Director at the firm with significant experience in complex trust structuring matters in addition to broader private client services. She is respected by peers across Bermuda and key jurisdictions like London.

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  • Ben Adamson
    Ben Adamson

    Ben Adamson

    Ben Adamson handles general commercial litigation matters, including complex trusts disputes.

    • Ben Adamson is really excellent.

      Offshore: Trusts respondentHigh Net Worth

    • Ben Adamson provides a strong overall level of service.

      Offshore: Trusts respondentHigh Net Worth
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  • Scott Pearman
    Scott Pearman

    Scott Pearman

    Scott Pearman is a director in the Conyers dispute resolution team who advises beneficiaries, trustees and protectors in contentious trust matters.

    • Scott Pearman is a big name in the area. He is really smart.

      Offshore: Trusts respondentHigh Net Worth
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