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Xavier Nicholas
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Xavier Nicholas is a partner and head of private client at Forsters in London, leading an impressive team on matters of personal taxation, succession planning, trusts and family governance.
His international practice includes UK/US families and individuals who wish to come to the UK, implementing planning for potential residents and UK resident non-doms. He has considerable experience of and skill in establishing wealth-holding structures such as trusts, companies and partnerships for assets and wealth held in the UK and other jurisdictions.
Forsters’ private client department is award-winning, and Nicholas is frequently quoted in the national and legal press on taxation, wealth and succession issues in the UK and abroad. He trained and spent the first four years of his career at Macfarlanes, and joined Forsters in 2009.
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