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Coriats
High Net Worth 2025
Rankings
Leading firm in High Net Worth 2025
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9
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1978
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Overview
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Coriats is an international trust and fiduciary firm specialising in complex cross-border structures for ultra-high-net-worth clients. Established in the late 1970s and holding trustee licence number one in the Turks and Caicos Islands, the firm is recognised for technical expertise and discretion. As part of the Coriats HMSA group, it combines global reach with an independent, partner-led model, delivering conflict-free advice, senior engagement, and continuity.
Industry sectors (6)
- Private Client
- Trusts
- Company
- Corporate Services
- Investment Oversight
- UHNWIs and HNWIs
Capabilities (9)
- Trustee, co-trustee, protector roles
- Complex international trust structures
- Discretionary, purpose, multi-layer arrangements
- Asset protection, succession, family governance
- Cross-border structuring & administration
- US and international trust capability
- Works with global legal/tax advisers
- CRS/FATCA compliant; strong governance
- Independent, senior-led delivery model
Key people
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David Stewart
Managing Director
Thomas Bucknall
Executive Director
Gareth Bathgate
Principal Client Relations
Christopher Coriat
Director
Work & experience
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Multi-family office partner to UHNW clients ~US$1.8bn across cross-border structures Clients: Europe, North America, Caribbean, UK, Latin America (Uruguay office) Jurisdictionally agnostic; solutions led by client needs Seamless multi-time-zone delivery Trustee for global wealth, succession, governance Independent alternative to institutional providers Growing highly experienced contentious trusts practice (high-value, sensitive matters)
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Turks & Caicos
David Stewart
Offshore: Trusts
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1978
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