Alex Boothman

Practice Areas

Alex is a private client solicitor who specialises in advising private individuals in relation to all aspects of their personal affairs.

Alex regularly advises on traditional UK tax planning, wills, trusts and estates. However, his particular expertise lies in advising high- and ultra-high-net-worth non-domiciled individuals and their advisors in relation to onshore and offshore tax planning, trusts, asset protection, wealth preservation, estate planning, and complex cross-border probate and estate administration.

Career

Alex qualified as a solicitor in 2013. Prior to joining Keystone Law in 2018, he worked at the following firms:

Irwin Mitchell

Berkeley Law

Experience

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.

Successfully claimed sovereign immunity on a very high value residential property portfolio, saving the client tens of millions of pounds in tax.

Advised on a mixed-use and 6 or more SDLT applications to apply the commercial rate on a £17.5m purchase, saving the client over £2m in SDLT.

Advised on a collective enfranchisement restructuring, saving the client over £7.5m in SDLT by managing to qualify for the commercial rate of SDLT under the 6 or more rule.

Advised on a multiple dwellings relief application on the purchase of a central London house with a cottage in the garden, saving the client £75,000 in SDLT.