Special Interest Spotlight Week 2020 | STEP

Deepen your knowledge in a specialist area with STEP's Special Interest Groups' Spotlight Sessions, this year taking place virtually across the span of a week and across different time zones!

Choose from 21 one-hour webinar sessions and hear leading speakers address thought-provoking topics, with the chance to ask questions and hear from fellow practitioners across the world. See the webinar titles by SIG below, clicking on the titles of each session for more information.

Book as many sessions as you like with increasing discounts according to the number of sessions you wish to book. SIG members, STEP members and non-members all welcome!

All sessions are recorded so registrants will receive a link to a recording/replay.

View timetable for the week

Fees Information

Business Families

Session 1: Fail to plan or plan to fail: business continuity and succession in extraordinary times (30 November, 11:00 - 12:00 GMT/UTC*)
Session 2: Adapt & survive: NextGen opportunities for the family business (2 December, 13:30 - 14:30 GMT/UTC*)
Session 3: Leveraging family business values for sustainability (4 December, 9:00 - 10:00 GMT/UTC*)

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Cambridge Associates

Contentious Trusts and Estates

Session 1: Trusts, wills and human rights (30 November, 9:00 - 10:00 GMT/UTC*)
Session 2: Whose body is it anyway? (2 December, 11:00 - 12:00 GMT/UTC*)
Session 3: Case review from the last 12 months (4 December, 13:30 - 14:30 GMT/UTC*)

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Cross-Border Estates

Session 1: Post-death planning for the cross-border estate (30 November, 15:00 - 16:00 GMT/UTC*)
Session 2: Will substitutes on death: a comparative review (1 December, 16:30 - 17:30 GMT/UTC*)
Session 3: Execution of wills in COVID-19 times: how to safeguard formal validity in a cross-border context (3 December, 11:00 - 12:00 GMT/UTC*)

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Digital Assets

Session 1: Digital assets in estate planning: understanding the technology / service provider viewpoint (30 November, 17:00 - 18:00 GMT/UTC*)
Session 2: Dawn of a new era: digitisation of estate legislation (1 December, 9:00 - 10:00 GMT/UTC*)
Session 3: Digital asset planning for incapacity and estate administration (3 December, 13:30 - 14:30 GMT/UTC*)

International Client

Session 1: One pandemic, many responses (1 December, 13:30 - 14:30 GMT/UTC*)
Session 2: Income tax treaty issues for private clients (2 December, 9:00 - 10:00 GMT/UTC*)
Session 3: DAC-6 and other regulations affecting client identity and disclosure (3 December, 16:30 - 17:30 GMT/UTC*)

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Mental Capacity

Session 1: The challenges of assessing capacity virtually (1 December, 11:00 - 12:00 GMT/UTC*)
Session 2: Assessing capacity: different approaches globally (2 December, 16:30 - 17:30 GMT/UTC*)
Session 3: Financial abuse re-visited and deprivation of liberty issues post-COVID-19 (4 December, 11:00 - 12:00 GMT/UTC*)

Kindly sponsored by:

tsfconsultants

Philanthropy Advisors

Session 1: Effective giving locally (30 November, 13:00-14:00 GMT/UTC*)
Session 2: Advisors helping their clients to bridge the funding gap (3 December, 9:00 - 10:00 GMT/UTC*)
Session 3: Different models of philanthropy delivery (4 December, 15:30 - 16:30 GMT/UTC*)

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