Adam is a member of the Contentious Trusts & Estates team and the firm's International Private Wealth Group. Adam trained at Farrer & Co and spent two years after qualification in the firm's International Private Client team, where he focused on tax advice for UK and international clients, estate planning, advising Trustees of offshore and onshore trusts and domestic and international wills and probate.
Adam advises on a wide variety of contentious matters concerning trusts and probate, and has particular experience of complex breach of trust claims and contentious trust matters with an offshore angle.
Adam has contributed to International Tax Systems and Planning Techniques (Saunders, Sweet & Maxwell, 2010) and The Law of Trusts (2 ed., Thomas and Hudson, Oxford University Press, 2010).
Adam is co-author, with Toby Graham of Farrer & Co, of the chapter on Costs in International Trust Disputes (OUP, January 2012) and contributed an article in the March 2012 edition of the Association of Contentious Trusts and Probate Specialist newsletter on the so-called Rule in Hastings Bass.
Who we help
Adam advises high net worth individuals with cross border interests on a range of matters from residence and domicile issues to wealth-holding structures.
Go to Private wealth Adam has experience in advising entrepreneurs and their families on Wills, estate planning and the use of trusts and has written about the particular issues that owner/managers can experience when considering inheritance planning.
Go to Entrepreneurs Adam has experience in advising landed estates on the preservation of assets for future generations and other aspects of succession planning.
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