John Bender

Spear’s Review

John Bender supports some of the world’s wealthiest families and UHNW clients with complex cross-border tax and trust arrangements. The highly regarded practitioner, who works across London and Switzerland, joined family trusts outfit Bender Brothers & Co. in 2008 and has served as director of its fiduciary office since 2012. He also is chairman of the firm’s investment committee.

Alongside decades of industry experience and work on cross-border trust arrangements, Bender’s firm says its independence and private ownership allow it to take a longer-term perspective with the clients and families it supports. 

‘As a multi-jurisdictional family office, Bender Brothers & Co. benefits from senior expertise in international trust law and investment management,’ the firm adds. 

Adviser Profile

John Bender heads the offshore trusts team at Bender Brothers & Co, an Anglo-Swiss family office historically linked to a FTSE-100 company. His group specialises in wealth structuring, trustee selection and oversight as well as residence planning and relocation. Non-domiciled client work takes him regularly to Switzerland, Italy, Malta, Ireland and the Gulf. Mr Bender heads the office’s investment committee for alternative and traditional assets in addition to an eminent body of Commonwealth trust lawyers specialising in fiduciary dispute resolution. After time in Hong Kong, he was educated at Eton and Harvard. Mr Bender speaks French, German, Spanish and Swedish.