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Recognized as a market-leaders in private wealth and tax advice, we draw on many years of experience to advise our clients on how best to structure and arrange their affairs in a complex and ever-changing world.

Increasingly we live in the world of the “global citizen” and these individuals are constantly seeking new outlets for their wealth. They also face unique challenges a full-service team like ours is best placed to advise on.

More than 80% of our client base has connections to more than one jurisdiction and as a result a substantial proportion of our advice is cross-border in nature.

Our clients include high net worth individuals (HNWI) and families, family offices, global property investors, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and owners and principals of private equity houses and other asset holding structures.

We provide market-leading advice to individuals from around the world, groups of companies and family businesses in need of joint tax and legal advisory and compliance services, including Spanish, cross-border and international taxation as well as business and legal issues which may affect their global wealth.

Our professional staff also coordinates with our clients’ external financial advisors and all matters relating to investment portfolios, to ensure a seamless private wealth management that takes into account the client’s financial, tax and legal concerns and therefore optimises investment returns. We work seamlessly with clients’ existing international legal advisers, accountants and investment advisers, as well as our own network of preferred firms offering the best possible advice, to provide a truly international service.

In addition to working with Lullius Partners lawyers in other practice areas, collaborating with non-Spanish partners is a big part of the success of our international private wealth practice.

Areas

Our advice is comprehensive and includes:

Ongoing tax advice on direct and indirect taxation
Legal and tax restructuring of personal wealth
Asset protection
Inheritance planning and wealth planning
Taxation of family businesses
Acquisition and transfer of assets, real estate, companies, and restructuring transactions
Advice on investment vehicles
Design of remuneration schemes for managers
Trusts and fiduciary structures
Financial products and their taxation
Investments and international structures
Expatriation / impatriation (relocation) processes
Legal assistance in tax audit procedures before the Spanish tax administration and tax litigation
Compliance with other tax reporting obligation

Recent experience

Advising US citizens and US expats with Spanish tax and estate planning advice;
Assisting a German family with the purchase of a hotel in Mallorca;
Advising as to how best to structure the tax efficient receipt by a US citizen of capital distributions from an existing offshore structure;
Advising a high net worth individual on pre-arrival planning before becoming tax resident in Spain, including advice relating to the Special Tax Regime for Expats (Beckham Law), the tax efficient investments in Spain, the taxation of trusts and management and control issues in relation to non-Spanish companies;
Designing the most efficient ownership structure for a client to hold valuable US real estate;
Comparing asset holding vehicles (such as trusts, foundations and family investment companies) and the possible jurisdictions in which to create such assets holding structures for a client with connections to multiple jurisdictions;
Advising a very private internationally mobile family on the transition of wealth deriving from a successful, well-established business to the next generation, using a simple structure to promote the family’s agreed objective to preserve and enhance ‘legacy’ assets for the benefit of future generations;
Advising on structuring of a number of property businesses for international clients, to ensure foreign income/gains can be invested in Spain in a tax efficient way, assets are ringfenced, and efficient profit extraction, and;
Restructuring of a Real Estate business, including use of tax efficient loan notes, and ensuring it will qualify for Wealth Tax exemption.

Best friends

Being Best Friends means being part of a unique alignment of elite law firms.

Communication and understanding between our firms is peerless. Each is considered to be a market leader in its respective jurisdiction.

Together, we have an unparalleled track record in cross border transactions, and we constantly strive to raise the benchmark of best practice in global legal services.

Our approach is founded on three core principles:

CLARITY. Every jurisdiction, every client, every situation is different. Seeing our clients’ challenges in their full context requires an acute appreciation of the relevant businesses, markets and jurisdictions. We believe this depth of understanding cannot be replicated. But it can be shared.

AGILITY. We build specific teams according to individual issues and requirements and increase effectiveness by putting the right minds in the right place at the right time. This flexibility gives our clients the highest quality advice possible.

COHERENCE. Our clients work with a single united team. Focused and consistent at every level, our advice is fully aligned across all jurisdictions. This coherence affords our clients continuity, consistency and confidence. And offers them good value.