We represent and advise successful entrepreneurs as well as their family members with regards to structuring, investing, accumulating, inheriting, transferring and protecting their wealth and business assets.
Our international experience alongside with the cooperation with trusted partners of high reputation in key global financial jurisdictions allow us to provide legal services based on solutions used in the most developed legal systems with centuries-old histories and philosophy of respect for privacy and property rights protection.
Representative experience:
As a full-service and one of the largest law firms in Ukraine Asters has the capabilities to involve specialized experts from other firm's practices (including International Tax, Real Estate, Banking and Finance, Dispute Resolution and Family law) into our clients' projects. It allows us to evaluate any issue comprehensively and to find a purely individual, applicable and well-balanced solution.
Investments. With our expert assistance clients invest into various assets, education, and high-tech products (including IT) efficiently and transparently from the international corporate and tax viewpoint. Within some of these projects we help our clients to obtain investment visas or residence permits.
Protection. We create structures based on which any changes in clients' personal and family life are reflected in a way that allows their assets both in Ukraine and abroad to be uncontestedly controlled by clients or their authorized representatives in accordance with the clients' instructions.
Inheritance. Within Private Clients practice we pay particular attention to providing training for clients' heirs and trustees on various situations related to the entry into the management of personal assets.
Confidentiality is a cornerstone of our practice. Even inside our office the clients of this practice are given code names, and the Firm's employees (with the exception of senior associates and partners) do not always know the names of the clients to whom the service is provided.
Projects:
- Analyzing foreign assets (companies, foreign bank accounts and real estate) of a number of private clients and preparation of recommendations on inheritance registration and establishing of a vehicle for smooth operation of a group of companies in the process of registration and acceptance of inheritance.
- Advising high net worth individuals on hereditary, currency and corporate law issues, including inheritance of corporate rights in Ukraine.
- Advising a Ukrainian client (tax resident in Austria) on establishment of a family office for assets and bank accounts management, as well as on organization of family accommodation in Austria.
- Supporting clients (tax residents of foreign countries) in the process of investing in corporate structures in Ukraine. Registration of protection of property interests of clients' family members.
- Tax and corporate structuring of investments in the multi-story apartment buildings' construction in the US (New York, California, Washington, Florida states).
- Tax optimization of the ownership structure of the multi-million IT business in California (USA).
- Carrying out an independent tax audit of foreign entities to confirm the purity of the client's capital for a well-known Swiss bank.
- Structuring of a friendly division of foreign assets between spouses and their protection against the abuse of fraudulent managers.
- Tax and currency structuring of the assets transfer to Ukrainian client's children who study and live in the UK.
- Providing legal assistance to clients during planning the foreign residence options of the family, in particular, in Slovenia and in the UK, taking into account the family members priorities and business needs.
