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Ashley Fife advises clients on the establishment of family offices and trusts structuring, and assists with issues relating to FATCA and CRS.
Ashley Fife
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Ashley Fife
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Ashley Fife TEP is counsel in the trusts and private wealth team of Carey Olsen Bermuda Limited.
He provides advice in relation to the structuring, restructuring and administration of private and commercial trusts and their underlying entities. Ashley advises in respect of the formation of family offices and regulatory issues impacting upon trustees, corporate service providers, trusts and underlying entities e.g. FATCA and CRS, beneficial ownership registers, anti-money laundering/terrorist financing and economic substance requirements.
Career
Ashley has extensive experience having been first admitted to practice as a solicitor and barrister in New South Wales, Australia in 2000 before being admitted as a solicitor of England and Wales in 2007 and as a barrister in Bermuda in 2015. Before moving to Bermuda in 2013, he was Head of Legal at the Jersey office of Equity Trust (now known as TMF) in Jersey where he worked for 6 years.
He is Chair of the Bermuda branch of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP), committee member of the STEP 'International Client' Special Interest Group, member of Bermuda's Trust Law Reform Committee and Trust Focus Group.
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Ashley is really responsive, working well with the corporate team to make sure things are joined up. He has in-depth knowledge of family circumstances.
Ashley is probably the most understated and intelligent lawyer I have come across in the trust industry. He is extremely thoughtful, coupling commercial sensibility with an academic approach.
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Ashley is a regulatory specialist, he is very good to work with. He is really one of the top experts in this area. Not only in Bermuda, but with a good knowledge and interest in worldwide standards.
Ashley is really responsive, working well with the corporate team to make sure things are joined up. He has in-depth knowledge of family circumstances.
Ashley is probably the most understated and intelligent lawyer I have come across in the trust industry. He is extremely thoughtful, coupling commercial sensibility with an academic approach.
Ashley is a regulatory specialist, he is very good to work with. He is really one of the top experts in this area. Not only in Bermuda, but with a good knowledge and interest in worldwide standards.
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