Practice Areas
Private Wealth, Asset Protection and Legacy Planning, Real Estate, Entrepreneurs & Growth Companies, Corporate Structuring & Re-structuring
Career
Kath Zagatti has been leading M/HQ's Private Client practice for the past 12 years.
Focusing on private wealth, asset protection and legacy planning, Kath has vast experience advising successful individuals and entrepreneurial families on implementing intergenerational wealth transfer strategies and structuring their operational and high value assets and global wealth.
Kath notably advises on wealth planning, family governance, asset consolidation, and family business matters through a combination of ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐๐ญ๐ ๐ญ๐จ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฌ (๐ข.๐. ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐ฏ๐๐ญ๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ, ๐ก๐จ๐ฅ๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐๐ง๐ข๐๐ฌ, ๐ฉ๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐๐ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐๐ง๐ข๐๐ฌ, ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐ ๐๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐จ๐๐๐ข๐๐๐ฌ, ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ข ๐๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐จ๐๐๐ข๐๐๐ฌ, ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฌ). Kath also assists her clients with practical aspects of transferring their assets to the aforesaid corporate vehicles incorporated with the purpose of intergenerational wealth transfer, asset protection and business continuity.
Kath also assists her clients with practical aspects of transferring their assets to the aforesaid corporate vehicles incorporated with the purpose of intergenerational wealth transfer, asset protection and business continuity.
Kath has significantly contributed to and made a measurable impact on the recent UAE evolution and advancements in the field of private wealth management.
She has been one of the first non-Emirati individuals succeeding on the transfer of real estate properties in Dubai to Foundations in 2019, when the Dubai Land Department started accepting registering properties under Foundation structures, and is vastly considered as the market leader with respect to consolidation of UAE real estate under domestic fiduciary structures.
Kath is a regular co-host of M/HQ's weekly legacy planning-themed podcast series 'Foundation 101' which has become the regional benchmark in terms of legacy planning and asset protection content.
She also oversees M/HQ's vast and frequent array of publications - a market reference in the Middle East - including newsflashes, Op-Eds, factsheets, tutorial videos aimed at end-users, with updated information about private client related local legislations and their impact in practice.
Education
Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie
Bachelor of Laws (LLB)
British University in Dubai
Master's Degree - Construction Law and Dispute Resolution
2012 - 2014
Pontifรญcia Universidade Catรณlica de Sรฃo Paulo
PG Dip, Civil Procedural Law