Global mobility and investment into the UK . 29 June 2021

The talk:

Global mobility and international investment are on the agenda for many individuals and families, with the UK continuing to be high on the list of possible destinations. However, questions still loom around visa and citizenship options and pre-immigration tax planning.

Join us at this webinar where Ugo Privitera and Larry Auyeung from Withers Hong Kong will discuss key considerations and common pitfalls.

The speakers:

Ugo Privitera - Registered foreign lawyer | Withers Hong Kong

Ugo is a senior associate in the private client and tax team of the Hong Kong office and is a dual qualified English Solicitor and Italian lawyer (avvocato).
He mainly advises clients on international succession, tax, trust and estate planning, investment structuring and probate as well as on complex cross-border inheritance matters with common law and civil law angles. He is an expert in EU Regulations affecting private individuals, such as the Succession Regulation and the Matrimonial Property Regimes Regulations.

Ugo joined the London office of the firm in 2010 and, up to August 2014, worked with the UK Italian Desk on matters with a main Italian angle. As an avvocato, he built a significant expertise on investments in the Italian real estate market, tax and succession issues, corporate and commercial deals. He then focused on private client and tax matters, and, as a solicitor, has acquired extensive international expertise in that area. He relocated to the Hong Kong office in March 2019.

Larry Auyeung - Associate | Withers Hong Kong

Larry is an associate in the private client and tax team. He assists high net worth clients in a wide range of matters such as cross-border estate and trust planning, family business and wealth succession planning, charity and philanthropy, UK tax, as well as elder law. Larry prepares for clients bespoke Wills, trust deeds and ancillary documents, enduring powers of attorney, and family constitutions. From time to time, Larry also assists with UK tax and BVI reporting advice from doing research to drafting advice memoranda. Larry joined Withers as a trainee solicitor in September 2016 where he started in the private client and tax team in the Hong Kong office. After a year of training in the private client and tax team, Larry was seconded to the corporate and commercial  team of the firm’s Milan office for six months. Larry assisted in a number of commercial matters, with a focus on fashion and sport law. In Milan, Larry worked with Serie A clubs, football managers and players, sport media, tennis players, Formula 1 teams and stakeholders, fashion houses, food producers, skincare companies, and industrial companies. Larry was admitted as a solicitor in Hong Kong in October 2018, as a solicitor and barrister in New South Wales, Australia in February 2021, and as a solicitor and barrister in New Zealand in April 2021. Larry is also registered as a solicitor of the High Court of Australia.

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