Eldwick Law is recognised for its expertise in resolving high-value international disputes for ultra-high-net-worth individuals, their families, family offices, and trustees. We combine discretion with strategic foresight to protect our clients’ interests and reputations in sensitive matters.
Our team is multi-lingual and includes dual-qualified lawyers, enabling us to advise on English law while coordinating with leading foreign firms. This reach allows us to manage intricate, multi-jurisdictional trust and succession disputes, as well as issues affecting family businesses across our core jurisdictions, including China, the Former Soviet States, and the Middle East.
Our clients instruct us for our market-leading experience, in particular with:
- Challenges to the validity of trusts, including issues of capacity and undue influence
- Disputes over trust administration, distributions, and alleged mismanagement
- Removal and replacement of trustees
- Fraud claims within or involving trust structures
We are also uniquely positioned in the market through our combined expertise in dispute resolution and sanctions regulation. This means that we often advise on sanctions-related trust disputes, as well as provide UK sanctions compliance and enforcement advice for ultra-high-net-worth individuals.
Representative matters:
- Advising on enforcement proceedings involving family assets held through BVI structures, including applications for charging orders over London properties valued at more than £80 million.
- Acting for the executor of an estate in possession proceedings against a beneficiary unlawfully occupying estate assets, with related Court of Protection considerations.
- Representing a UHNW individual against a Swiss global asset management company in possession proceedings concerning the beneficial ownership of two London properties.
- Acting for a UHNW individual in contempt proceedings connected to the collapse of a substantial international business empire.
- Successfully securing rental income for two beneficiaries in a probate dispute exceeding £10 million concerning trust structures and ownership of income-generating university accommodation.
- Advising in a complex probate dispute involving enforcement against the estate of a former CEO, including obtaining disclosure orders under the Administration of Estates Act and securing recovery of estate assets.
- Advising senior management of one of Kazakhstan’s largest banks in breach of trust claims.