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Withersworldwide specialises in helping wealthy clients in tax, trust and estate planning, employment, and family law, as well as providing corporate advice on their private capital and businesses.
Recent work includes representing a British businessman living in Italy, whose business is held through an English family trust, which required restructuring, creating UK tax complications.
The firm is representing the diamond trader Jatin Mehta in one of the largest civil fraud cases in the UK, in which more than a dozen banks seek the recovery of more than $1 billion allegedly swindled from them.
Metal facility agreements were agreed with a consortium of international banks under which gold would be advanced with an obligation to repay the banks. Repayments were subsequently defaulted on and the liquidators of several “layer companies” have obtained a worldwide freezing order.
The High Court rejected the Indian magnate’s request to halt proceedings initiated by Grant Thornton and Standard Chartered bank.
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Withersworldwide represented RMUSE, a holding company owned by Ron Burkle, the chief executive of Soho House, on the purchase of land in Great Tew, Oxfordshire, to create the Mullin Automotive Museum for vintage cars. The museum will exhibit cars from businessman and philanthropist Peter Mullin’s collection and will also offer a members’ club and luxury residences.
★ Commended for charities; family; financial crime & fraud & regulatory; inheritance & succession; tax
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