The 2024 Practitioners’ Forum on Stress Testing Trust Structures
The first event to bring together contentious and non-contentious private client practitioners alongside distinguished trustees to examine best practice for enhancing the resilience of trust structures and mitigating risks of attack.
In-person | 18th January 2024 | The Millennium Hotel Knightsbridge
Engage with pioneers in trust law, exchange ideas, and broaden your perspective on trust rigidity. Forge connections with like-minded professionals, paving the way for shared knowledge.
In just one content-packed day, learn about:
Analysing Angles of Attack and the Importance of Stress Testing
- Internal Attacks
- External Attacks
- Avoiding Attacks on 3 levels
Fortifying Trusts Against Tax Authority Attacks
- Changes in tax law that could leave a trust vulnerable
- Trust and corporate residence issues
- Mitigating tax implications
Insights into the Role of Trustees in Stress Testing
- A trustee’s duties and obligations
- How stress testing can impact their decision making
- What should a trustee do in the event of an attack
New Families and Old Trusts: Preventing Your Trust from Becoming Archaic
- Addressing outdated language and rules within the trust
- Updating the trust to include contemporary family issues
- Succession planning
- Second families and unknown love children
Ensuring Resilience Against Fraud and Insolvency
- Stress testing against creditor claims
- Financial irregularities
- Trustee duties in periods of financial difficulty
- Is insolvency becoming more applicable to trusts
- Sham & illusory trusts
Examining Variations in Trusts and How They Can Leave Trusts Vulnerable
- Varying a trust without leaving it vulnerable
- Situations in which you’d be looking to vary a trust
- Trusts as a resource
- The wishes of the settlors and beneficiaries – how relevant are they
Hear from Richard Wilson KC, a leading authority on the proper purpose rule, speak on capacity.
Chaired by an eminent practitioner with experience in trusteeship, as well as contentious and non-contentious law:
Your expert speakers include a range of experts in contentious and non-contentious law and distinguished trustees.
Contentious Practitioners:
Serle Court
![Ben Havard](https://thoughtleaders4.com/images/uploads/events/_square/Ben-Havard-LG-COL.jpg)
Collas Crill (Guernsey)
Withers
![Charlotte Fraser](https://thoughtleaders4.com/images/uploads/events/_square/SIP_headshots_%285%29.png)
Farrer & Co
![Emma Cohen](https://thoughtleaders4.com/images/uploads/events/_square/cohen_emma_18_web.jpg)
Macfarlanes
![Monika Byrska](https://thoughtleaders4.com/images/uploads/events/_square/Monika_Byrska.png)
Howard Kennedy
![Oliver Auld](https://thoughtleaders4.com/images/uploads/events/_square/SIP_headshots.png)
Charles Russell Speechlys
![Hannah Mantle](https://thoughtleaders4.com/images/uploads/events/_square/Mantle%2C_Hannah.jpg)
Forsters LLP
![Hugh Gunson](https://thoughtleaders4.com/images/uploads/events/_square/hugh-gunson.png)
Charles Russell Speechlys
![Helen McGhee](https://thoughtleaders4.com/images/uploads/events/_square/Helen_McGhee.png_.jpg)
Joseph Hage Aaronson
![Rupert Ticehurst](https://thoughtleaders4.com/images/uploads/events/_square/SIP_headshots_%2810%29.png)
Maurice Turnor Gardner
![Kate Silbermann](https://thoughtleaders4.com/images/uploads/events/_square/silbermann-kate-sit-mobile.jpg)
Taylor Wessing
![Brian Lacy](https://thoughtleaders4.com/images/uploads/events/_square/brian_lacy.jpg)
Ogier (BVI)
Interpath
![Emma Hill](https://thoughtleaders4.com/images/uploads/events/_square/Emma_Hill_-_Temp_photo_-_AMO_photoshop.png)
Bedell Cristin
Non-Contentious Practitioners:
![Emily Osborne](https://thoughtleaders4.com/images/uploads/events/_square/Emily_Osborne.jpg)
Stephenson Harwood
![Charles Richardson](https://thoughtleaders4.com/images/uploads/events/_square/259_1246929.jpg)
Kingsley Napley
![Kyra Motley](https://thoughtleaders4.com/images/uploads/events/_square/Kyra_Motley.png)
Boodle Hatfield
![Jonathan Burt](https://thoughtleaders4.com/images/uploads/events/_square/Screenshot_2022-02-24_10.37.32_AM_.png)
Harbottle & Lewis
![Christopher S. Cook](https://thoughtleaders4.com/images/uploads/events/_square/Cook_Christopher.jpg)
Baker McKenzie
![William Burnell](https://thoughtleaders4.com/images/uploads/events/_square/45184.jpg)
Mourant
![Jill Carpenter](https://thoughtleaders4.com/images/uploads/events/_square/Jill_Carpenter.jpg)
Rawlinson & Hunter Singapore
Trustees:
![Paul Buckle](https://thoughtleaders4.com/images/uploads/events/_square/Paul-Buckle_resized.jpg)
Ocorian
![Alona Golling](https://thoughtleaders4.com/images/uploads/events/_square/AG_003c.jpg)
Summit Trust Group (Geneva)
![Janine Cubbon](https://thoughtleaders4.com/images/uploads/events/_square/Screenshot_2022-02-17_11.03.50_AM_.png)
Suntera Global
![Kelly Watson](https://thoughtleaders4.com/images/uploads/events/_square/kelly-watson-2048x1555.jpg)
Accuro
![Kerrie Le Tissier](https://thoughtleaders4.com/images/uploads/events/_square/portraits_21.jpg)
Highvern
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