Frederick Bjørn

Frederick is a Managing Partner for the firm and Partner in the Private Client department.

Frederick acts for UK and international high net worth individuals, advising on associated tax issues and cross border migration; the establishment and restructuring of onshore and offshore trusts and Wills and estate planning (including strategic succession planning for family businesses).

Frederick’s practice can be divided into three distinct parts:

1) Scandinavian clients – Frederick is well connected within the UK based Scandinavian community and regularly advises clients from the region on their cross border estate planning – in conjunction with various local advisors.

2) UK resident US clients – Frederick is a regular speaker at ‘US/UK’ conferences and works extensively with US lawyers and accountants to optimise estate planning for UK based individuals with US assets and / or other US connections.

3) Advising on strategic family governance for multi generational, entrepreneurial businesses, both in terms of transfers of wealth and control and asset protection. Frederick has extensive experience in this area and was awarded distinctions in both the STEP Advanced Certificate in Advising Family Business and the STEP Advanced Certificate in Family Business Governance.

Frederick served on the STEP Business Families Global SIG Steering Committee from 2023 - 2026.

Frederick is a regular speaker at industry conferences and has contributed to various publications. In the past year he:

1) Co-chaired the Thought Leaders 4 Non Dom Tax & FIG Forum 2026 - 5th Annual Conference (May 2026)

2) Presented the Thought Leaders 4 Offshore tax webinar (April 2026)

3) Spoke at the 2nd SIP Global Health Conference (September 2025)

Slaughter and May 2006-2010; Payne Hicks Beach 2010, Partner 2015, Managing Partner 2026.

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