Will Finnerty - Private Wealth Associate - Boodle Hatfield

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Will Finnerty

Associate
Private Client & Tax

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Will is an Associate in the firm's Private Client & Tax team.

He advises on a broad range of private wealth matters, including tax, trusts, asset structuring, asset protection and succession planning.

Will acts for a wide range of clients including wealthy individuals, entrepreneurs, family offices, family-owned businesses and fiduciaries. Most of his work has an international element to it and involves complex cross-border issues.

He is dual-qualified (England & Wales and Bermuda) and has particular experience advising on the establishment, governance, and restructuring of offshore wealth holding vehicles. He also has experience with the creation of family and investment offices.

Will has a particular interest in advising wealthy families based in the Caribbean and the Middle East and frequently travels to these regions as part of his work and for speaking engagements.

Track record

Advised a billionaire financier and philanthropist on UK tax and wealth structuring advice.

Advised a leading entrepreneur in relation to the UK tax implications of multi-billion-dollar contentious trusts.

Advised a group of private equity professionals on the UK tax implications of their participation in multi-billion-dollar European funds.

Advised the Protector of a multi-billion-dollar dynastic trust with a complex restructuring and family governance exercise.

Advised the divorcing spouse of a billionaire financier with their offshore wealth structuring and asset protection objectives.

Advised international families with their UK tax planning in connection with the abolition of the ‘non-dom’ regime.

Conference speaking

STEP Bermuda Conference, 2023 and 2025

Publications

AlphaWeek: Carry under Labour: Private Equity Professionals Beware! – 2024

Tolley’s Administration of Trusts – 2023-24 (contributor)

Memberships

Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners

The Law Society

The Bermuda Bar Association

Education & Qualification

University of Exeter

Qualified as a solicitor in 2021

Advised a billionaire financier and philanthropist on UK tax and wealth structuring advice.

Advised a leading entrepreneur in relation to the UK tax implications of multi-billion-dollar contentious trusts.

Advised a group of private equity professionals on the UK tax implications of their participation in multi-billion-dollar European funds.

Advised the Protector of a multi-billion-dollar dynastic trust with a complex restructuring and family governance exercise.

Advised the divorcing spouse of a billionaire financier with their offshore wealth structuring and asset protection objectives.

Advised international families with their UK tax planning in connection with the abolition of the ‘non-dom’ regime.

STEP Bermuda Conference, 2023 and 2025

AlphaWeek: Carry under Labour: Private Equity Professionals Beware! – 2024

Tolley’s Administration of Trusts – 2023-24 (contributor)

Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners

The Law Society

The Bermuda Bar Association

University of Exeter

Qualified as a solicitor in 2021