Robert advises on tax, trust and estate planning for wealthy individuals, their advisers and trustees. He acts for a wide range of clients including the owners of landed estates, business people, non-domiciliaries and international families with assets in multiple jurisdictions.

David Kilshaw is a Manging Director with Rothschild & Co and Head of Private Client Wealth Solutions.

A qualified lawyer and former partner with KPMG, EY and Rawlinson & Hunter,  David no longer provides tax advice but works alongside leading lawyers and accountants to help clients craft solutions to their personal and business needs. David received the STEP Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018

Bryony is an experienced private client lawyer working with a range of clients, from individuals and families, to trustee companies and family businesses. At the core of her practice is helping clients and their families put in place the most effective strategies to manage the long term stability and integrity of their estates.

Bryony has extensive experience advising on all aspects of UK estate planning, including wills, trusts, lasting powers of attorney (LPA) and family governance issues. She regularly advises on the administration of large and complex estates and international probate, and some contentious probate and trust matters.

Naomi is a Group Director at Highvern. She was called to the English Bar in 1999 and re-qualified as a Jersey Advocate in 2003. As a former Partner at law firm, Appleby, Naomi provided wealth-structuring advice to high and ultra-high net worth individuals, international private banks and trust companies. At Highvern, Naomi works closely with clients and their advisers to establish and implement robust and sustainable wealth planning structures. Naomi is a member of the board of Highvern Trustees Limited, Former Chair to the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) in Jersey and sits on the Jersey Finance Trusts Law Working Party.

Leonora’s background is in providing tax advice and compliance to high net worth individuals, wealthy families and partnerships. Her client base ranges from landed estates with their accompanying enterprises, to owner-managed businesses. In both cases her primary interests are in advising the individual family members whose wealth is derived from these enterprises. Her current role is focused on the advisory aspect however with her predominately compliance based experience she is able to combine both skills to provide an all-round service to her clients.

Leonora presents annually to a range of investment advisors on Budget updates, as well as speaking at internal events.

Leonora joined Saffery Champness 2012, after having trained at another leading private client firm. As part of her training, she undertook a secondment in Geneva.

Chris Moorcroft advises individuals and families on wealth planning and succession matters. This includes the use of estate planning vehicles such as companies, trusts and foundations to manage the passing of wealth and family businesses to younger generations, to protect wealth from unexpected events like death and incapacity, to protect wealth from adverse third parties and to manage complex cross-border tax problems involving multiple jurisdictions.

He advises on will planning and probate involving assets spread across jurisdictions, including the application of the EU Succession Regulation. He frequently deals with wills and probates which involve more than one jurisdiction and acts as executor and administrator of estates, as well as the trustee of a charitable trust.

He represents wealthy individuals and families from around the world, with a particular focus on US-connected clients and individuals from the Middle East and Africa. In addition, he also represents professional trust companies and other fiduciaries on issues relating to the design and management of structures, risk mitigation (including fiduciary risk), data protection and tax.

A significant element of his expertise involves advising UK and international high net worth individuals who are resident, investing or spending time in UK on how to structure their assets, including advice relating to the remittance basis regime and the structuring of UK residential property.

During the last 30 years, I have had the privilege of working closely with UHNW international families and their trusted advisers, to help them achieve their generational wealth planning objectives and philanthropic goals.

My area of expertise is structuring for UK resident non-UK domiciled families, developing strong and lasting relationships with clients and intermediaries alike. Having gained experience across a spectrum of different structures and asset classes, I implement the most appropriate bespoke structure for each client family.

I am proud to be recognised as a Who’s Who Legal Private Client Trust & Advisory Services Global Leader.

To relax, I enjoy cooking and entertaining as well as spending time with my husband and two children.

Arabella manages the firm's relationships with professional intermediaries, both onshore and offshore. She was recognised as Women of the Year Leadership in the Large, Institutional category at the Citywealth Powerwomen Awards in 2017. Before joining CapGen, Arabella held the position of Client Director at Close Brothers Asset Management. Before this, she held positions at Dominion Corporate Services, PQR Financial Planning and Coutts. Arabella has a degree in European Business Administration from Middlesex University

Abby is a Partner in the Family and Divorce team who specialises in matters involving all aspects of private family law and in particular complex financial issues and private children cases.

Abby is recognised in Chambers UK, Chambers High Net Worth Guide, Legal 500 UK and Spear’s Family Law Index. She was shortlisted as Woman of the Year - Rising Star in the Powerwomen Awards.

Abby is a member of the Founding Committee for Thought Leaders4 HNW Divorce Next Generation committee and has spoken at and chaired numerous ThoughtLeaders4 events. 

After reading English Literature at The University of Manchester, Abby went on to complete the Graduate Diploma in Law and the Legal Practice Course in Bloomsbury. Abby was a paralegal at a magic circle firm in their Mergers and Acquisitions team before commencing her training contract with a Lincoln’s Inn firm in 2008 and qualifying into their Family Team in 2010. Abby joined Kingsley Napley in 2012 and was made partner in 2020. 

Frederick is a partner at London private client law firm Payne Hicks Beach. He advises a broad range of UK and international clients on personal tax and trust issues. His practice is focused on advising entrepreneurial, business families on long term structuring and succession planning (often through the use of trusts). A number of Frederick’s clients are UK resident non-domiciliaries, who he advises on UK tax, residence and asset structuring (including ‘pre-arrival planning’). Frederick’s offshore work has a particular focus on Scandinavia but he also advises clients from a number of other jurisdictions most notably those with a US connection. Consequently Frederick is used to working with advisors in multiple jurisdictions to coordinate consolidated advice for clients with international connections.