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Director
of Studies
James
A.F.Wadham
James Wadham is Chief Executive
of The Fiduciary and Consulting Group, comprising several entities,
all aimed at providing highly specialised solutions to clients problems.
Mar
Wadham was first called to the Bar of England and Wales by Inner
Temple and later admitted to the Bar of Hong Kong where he has been
based since 1976. He has practised as a trustee for over 20 years
and has lectured at a number of tertiary institutions and professional
conferences during much of that time.
Daily
Chairpersons
Marcus
C. Killick
Marcus Killick, is Commissioner and Chairman
of the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission, He is an English
Barrister and also a member of the New York State Bar. Prior to
joining the Commission he was Director in the International Regulatory
Services Team of KPMG, based in the UK. He has also held previous
positions as Deputy Chief Executive of the Isle of Man Financial
Supervision Commission,and Head of Banking, Trusts and Investment
Services at the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority.
Dr
H. L. Bernhard Vischer
Bernhard Vischer was admitted to the
bar in Zürich in 1978 and today is a member of the Swiss as
well as of the International Bar Associations. In 1988 he opened
his own practice and now operates an office in Zürich. Professionally,
Dr Vischer is active in commercial and banking law, including litigation.
Nigel Goodeve-Docker
Nigel Goodeve-Docker is an English
solicitor who has specialised in the law of trusts and tax, both
in the UK and internationally for most of his practising career.
Previously Senior Partner with London Firm, Wedlake Bell, Nigel
continues his specialist work at his own practice in Hampshire,
England.
Charles
A. Cain
Prof. Charles A. Cain MA, ACIB,
TEP, is an Economist and Banker and Chairman of Skyefid Limited,
Isle of Man. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Offshore Investment magazine,
Visiting Professor at the Isle of Man International Business School,
and an Adjunct Professor at St Thomas University School of Law,
Miami, Florida.
Howard
S. Fisher
Howard S. Fisher is the senior partner
of the Beverly Hills based law firm of Clinco & Fisher, LLP. He
is a business transactional attorney (corporate, real estate, asset
protection, and securities), with expertise in business and tax
litigation. Mr. Fisher has published more than a dozen articles,
and has spoken at over 100 conferences around the world, and has
authored sections/chapters in several treatises. Mr. Fisher is a
past chair of the California State Bar's Taxation Section, the Beverly
Hills Bar's Taxation Section, and is a member of the Executive Committee
of the Beverly Hills Bar's Business Law Section.
International
Faculty
AUSTRALIA
Barry J Woods
is Special Tax Counsel with Cornwall Stodart Lawyers in Melbourne.
Barry has over 40 years experience advising clients on domestic
and international taxation, mergers and acquisitions, effective
business structuring and re-organisation, capital raising, finance,
investment syndication, business succession planning and general
commercial matters.
BARBADOS
Dr
Trevor A. Carmichael QC was called to the Bar as a member
of the Middle Temple in London. He is the Principal of Chancery
Chambers, a Barbados based law firm engaged primarily in international
business law, environmental law and the law relating to charities.
FRANCE
Peter Harris
is an English tax barrister and has practiced since his call in
1979 in both European and French tax law. He practiced in France
for over ten years, firstly as In House Tax Counsel to Renault,
and after a period in Jersey, Channel Islands, for four years in
his own Chambers in Aquitaine, before moving to London in 1999,
where he has since practiced at the Revenue Bar. He spent eight
years in Jersey, in various areas of the offshore scene, and served
as the French Consul there in 1994-1995.
HONG
KONG
Bill
Ahern
is Managing Director of Wealth and Tax Advisory (Asia) Limited -
the private client tax consulting and wealth structuring arm of
HSBC Private Bank.
IRELAND
Peter
O'Dwyer is managing director of Hainault Capital Limited,
a company which provides advice to cross frontier businesses, in
particular to those involved with international investment funds,
group structures and structured finance. He is also a non-executive
director of a number of investment companies and funds based in
Europe and the Cayman Islands. He is Editor of the Fintel Guide
to Global Hedge Fund Services.
ITALY
Loretta Napoleoni is an economist and has worked for
several banks and international organisations in Europe. She is
also a journalist and has worked as foreign correspondent for several
Italian papers. She has written novels and guidebooks in Italian
and is a recognised expert on terrorism. Her most recent novel,
Dossier Baghdad, is a financial thriller set during the Gulf War
and she is also the author of Modern Jihad Ð Tracing the dollars
behind the terror networks.
LIECHTENSTEIN
Dr Markus H. Wanger is Founder and Senior Partner
of Wanger Advokatur, a leading Liechtenstein Law Firm. Dr Wanger
is also Managing Director of the Trust Company Industrie & Finanzkontor,
based in Vaduz and the author of various publications on Liechtenstein
Law.
NEW
ZEALAND
John W. Hart LLB (Hons), M
Jur, Notary Public is a New Zealand based barrister with over 24
years legal experience. John has specialised in tax and trust law
and related planning for 20 years, with a large component of his
work being cross-border/international in nature.
Anthony
Molloy QC
was admitted as a Barrister in 1967, and currently practices from
Shortland Chambers, Auckland. In addition to lecturing at Auckland
University, he is a frequent conference speaker and has published
more than fifty papers on trusts, taxation, intellectual property,
ethics and company law.
SWITZERLAND
Dr Patrizio Merciai is a private investment consultant
and an associate professor of banking and finance at the University
of Geneva. He has 18 years experience with Lombard Odier Darier
Hentsch & Cie, Private Bankers and has been involved in setting
the bank's international asset allocation from 1988 to 2004.
UNITED
KINGDOM
Richard
A. Cassell is a Principal at the London office of Withers
LLP and is qualified as a solicitor in England and is a member of
the Washington DC Bar. He has practiced law in the UK and the US
for over 20 years and has worked extensively on cross-border charitable
structures. He has written and spoken extensively on cross border
charity issues and advises a number of charities, as well as serving
as a charitable trustee of several organizations.
Andrew
De La Rosa
is a practising barrister and U.S. attorney at law. He practises
primarily from London and the Chicago law office of Morris & De
La Rosa and is a recognised specialist in the law relating to professional
and trading partnerships.
John
G. Goldsworth
was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple in 1965. He acts as 'of
counsel' to a US law practice in Chambers at 8 Gray's Inn Square,
London. As a founder member of the Offshore Development Group within
these Chambers he advises governments, institutions and companies
on the proper use and development of offshore financial activities
and the development of legislation for inward and outward investment
including company law, trusts, tax law, and financial law. Frequently
a chairman and lecturer at professional conferences, John was Director
of Studies at the Oxford Offshore Symposium in 1993 and 1994.
Richard
Hay is
the tax partner and head of the Private Capital Group in the London
office of Stikeman Elliott, Canadian and International lawyers.
The Group advises on international estate planning structures for
high net worth families, particularly those in Latin America, Canada
and Europe. The Group also advises on information exchange and financial
regulation matters, including the initiatives pursued by the OECD,
the EU, the FATF and the IMF. Mr. Hay is co-chairman of the STEP
International Committee.
Nicholas
Jacob is a Partner in the City firm of Lawrence Graham,
London Solicitors, a leading firm of lawyers in the Tax, Trust and
Estate Planning field according to the Legal 500. Since qualifying
in 1982, he has specialised in Taxation and Trusts with particular
emphasis on planning for the Entrepreneur. He advises Trustees all
over the world, in virtually every low tax centre, and visits many
of them frequently. He has been consulted as an expert witness in
his field, and is quoted as a leader in the field of Trusts and
Personal Tax in recent editions of Chambers Guide to the UK Legal
Profession.
John
Nugent is a Director of PKF (Isle of Man) Limited, specialising
in the provision of offshore tax planning advice to wealthy individuals,
their family trusts and corporate groups. His advice encompasses
the mitigation of estate, capital and income taxes and the improvement
of existing trust and corporate arrangements and he lectures frequently
on international and offshore tax planning.
Shan
Warnock-Smith, QC
specialises in advice and litigation connected with trusts (both
onshore and offshore), estates and charities, and associated taxation.
In 2004, both the Legal 500 and the Chambers Guide to the Legal
Profession placed her among the leading practitioners in her field.
She is a frequent speaker and broadcaster on trust and estate matters
and sits on the editorial board of the Wills and Trusts Law Reports.
Shan has appeared in many of the leading private client cases in
recent years both in England and the offshore jurisdictions.
USA
Daniel J. Mitchell
is the McKenna Senior Fellow in Political Economy at the Heritage
Foundation. He is one of the nation's experts on the flat tax and
has been the leading international voice in the fight to preserve
tax competition, financial privacy, and fiscal sovereignty.
USVI
Denis
Kleinfeld
is General Counsel to Four Points Family Office, (USVI) and a principal
of The Kleinfeld Law Firm, a Miami, Florida based law firm with
associated offices in London, England, and Geneva, Switzerland,
and a Director of Windjammer Cruises. Mr Kleinfeld's primary practice
focus is on sophisticated national and international income, estate
and wealth protection planning for individuals and privately held
companies.
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