Recent work highlights

• Acting for a trustee company in relation to its replacement with a Cayman Islands trustee, and the transfer of trust assets in circumstances where the settlor and his family were the subject of fraud investigations by the Serious Fraud Office.
• Assisting the professional trustee of a trust holding a collection of works by a well-known New Zealand artist (who was both non-verbal and illiterate) in the context of a dispute between the professional trustee and the artist’s co-trustee sister.
• Acting for the Singapore-based director of a registered trustee company in defence of claims for breach of duty by the trustee, made by a Greek oligarch.
• Acting as counsel for New Zealand’s largest statutory trustee company to advise on various contentious matters.
• Representing one of two co-executors during the winding up of the estate of a high net worth individual in circumstances of discord between the co-executors, and also between the co-executors and the various charitable organisation beneficiaries of the estate.