Special Interest Groups (SIGs)

Established in 2007, the group focuses on what makes business families distinct, their particular challenges and how to best address them.

The group focuses on international trust and estate jurisprudence while promoting best practice in avoiding, or dealing with, contentious trust and estate disputes and trustee litigation.

The Cross-Border Estates Global Special Interest Group addresses the domain of estate planning and the administration of estates/successions across international borders, with a focus on reconciling divergent inheritance rules between civil code jurisdictions, common law jurisdictions, and other codes of law.

Established in recognition of the emerging issues related to how practitioners effectively assist clients and their fiduciaries in planning for and administering the digital assets of individuals after the individual dies or loses capacity.

The International Client Global SIG focuses on the needs practitioners worldwide serving, or aspiring to serve, international clients with complex planning needs; focusing on lifelong professional business development and career support.

Established in 2010, the group focuses on the increasing importance and relevance of issues concerning capacity in all aspects of legal work relating to inheritance and succession planning. The group aims to ensure that all members are kept up to date with developments and, indeed, are part of the debate and shaping the future where possible.

The group focuses on enhancing the strategic nature of giving and social investing to raise the status of private client philanthropy advisory and help encourage further professionalism.

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