Spear’s Review

John Bender joined family trust outfit Bender Brothers & Co in 2008 and has served as director of its private client office since 2012. 

The Liechtenstein-based practitioner supports some of the world’s wealthiest families with complex tax and trust arrangements, including helping families to set up trusts as well as appoint trustees, all with the added consideration of other jurisdictions.

The firm emphasises discretion and impeccable levels of client service. Bender Brothers & Co is a family-run business itself, Bender explains, and clients particularly value their familiar approach. ‘Particularly the large families and those who have their own family offices, they like that. They say: “OK, we speak the same language.” There’s the same way of thinking,’ he tells Spear’s.