Salpy Kouyoumjian - Private Wealth Law Partner - Boodle Hatfield

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Salpy Kouyoumjian

Salpy Kouyoumjian, Private Wealth Partner, Boodle Hatfield

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Salpy Kouyoumjian, Private Wealth Partner, Boodle Hatfield

Salpy specialises in succession, tax, wealth preservation and estate planning advice for individuals and their families, as well as the trustees, private banks and family offices which support them.

Salpy has extensive experience in designing and establishing bespoke international asset-holding and wealth management structures including PTCs, limited partnership structures, family investment companies, pooled investment vehicles and investment management/advisory structures. In recent years, she has established family offices in the UK, US, Monaco, the Channel Islands and Singapore.

Prior to joining the Firm, Salpy spent five years at Clifford Chance and then 10 years at Baker & McKenzie where she was a partner in the Wealth Management team.

Salpy is fluent in Arabic, French and Armenian.

Areas of Practice

Private Client, Family Business, International Wealth Planning, Trust & Succession Planning, Tax & Advisory, International

Track Record

Acting for a prominent family (net worth $20Bn) to establish a single family office structure to manage the family’s global assets including financial assets, commercial and residential property interests, a significant art collection, various aircraft and vessels, and a growing portfolio of private equity holdings

Restructuring a significant UK real estate portfolio valued at around £750M for an international client looking to undertake generational planning for his seven children; establishing a series of trusts incorporating detailed mechanisms for “allocation” of properties to particular branches of the family and related valuation mechanisms

Advising a leading international entrepreneur on his relocation to the UK, providing pre-immigration tax advice and structuring his investment portfolio to make provision for his children who were resident in four different jurisdictions

Awards & Rankings

Chambers HNW, United Arab Emirates – Foreign Expertise based abroad in UK Spotlight, 2023

Chambers HNW, Top Ranked Individual, 2021 – 2023

Chambers HNW, Ranked Individual, 2017 – 2023

Chambers HNW Awards, Foreign Jurisdiction Expert – Shortlisted 2022

Chambers HNW, Foreign Expert for Middle East, 2017 – 2022

Who’s Who Legal, Recommended Individual, 2020

Legal Week Private Client Global Elite, Top 200, 2017 – 2019 & 2021

Education & Qualification

University of London

Qualified as a solicitor in 1999

Acting for a prominent family (net worth $20Bn) to establish a single family office structure to manage the family’s global assets including financial assets, commercial and residential property interests, a significant art collection, various aircraft and vessels, and a growing portfolio of private equity holdings

Restructuring a significant UK real estate portfolio valued at around £750M for an international client looking to undertake generational planning for his seven children; establishing a series of trusts incorporating detailed mechanisms for “allocation” of properties to particular branches of the family and related valuation mechanisms

Advising a leading international entrepreneur on his relocation to the UK, providing pre-immigration tax advice and structuring his investment portfolio to make provision for his children who were resident in four different jurisdictions

Chambers HNW, United Arab Emirates – Foreign Expertise based abroad in UK Spotlight, 2023

Chambers HNW, Top Ranked Individual, 2021 – 2023

Chambers HNW, Ranked Individual, 2017 – 2023

Chambers HNW Awards, Foreign Jurisdiction Expert – Shortlisted 2022

Chambers HNW, Foreign Expert for Middle East, 2017 – 2022

Who’s Who Legal, Recommended Individual, 2020

Legal Week Private Client Global Elite, Top 200, 2017 – 2019 & 2021

University of London

Qualified as a solicitor in 1999

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