Stella Kim

Biography

Stella advises high-net-worth individuals, family offices, family business owners and trustees on all aspects of wealth structuring, estate planning, succession arrangements, family governance and related tax matters. With a focus on creating bespoke solutions, Stella works closely with clients to ensure their wealth is preserved and transitioned across generations in a tax-efficient manner whilst also aligning with their business objectives and values.

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Recent Experience

• Advising trustees of offshore trusts in various jurisdictions, including but not limited to, the US, Jersey, Guernsey and Switzerland (i.e., outside the Middle East) as to appropriate structuring methods for tax-efficient investment into regional assets (such as UAE property) for the benefit of the relevant trust’s beneficiaries.
• Advising a Middle Eastern conglomerate family as to appropriate holding structures for the purposes of transferring personally held business and private assets (> US$5bn) across a multitude of jurisdictions to be held for the benefit of the patriarch’s family and his future descendants.
• Advising a well-established Swiss family, with a historic generational trust in place, as to various restructuring options of that trust (or entirely afresh) in light of the family’s generational expansion and evolving objectives and, in particular, the majority of the family’s immigration to the UAE over the preceding decade.
• Advising a multi-billion dollar conglomerate Middle Eastern family as to their DIFC unit trust PTC structure for the purposes of family governance for their growing generations whilst ensuring structural Shari’ah law compliance.
• Advising an Indian family office as to their incorporation of a UAE subsidiary to expand business interests, and diversify investment holdings, into Dubai, and the Middle Eastern region, more broadly.