Spear’s Review

Andrew Bayles comes highly recommended to Spear’s by several advisers: ‘He is not merely technically strong. He is steady, commercial and trusted to make difficult decisions properly,’ notes one contentious trust lawyer. 

A director and general counsel at the Geneva-based, family-owned firm SwissIndependent Trustees, Bayles works with a range of international UHNWs – including from the Middle East, Europe, the Channel Islands and North America – advising on trust structuring, governance and succession planning. He also acts as an independent trustee and independent trust protector. He is particularly skilled at supporting clients when family dynamics are complicated, or their trusts involve complex, multi-jurisdictional assets.

‘Those with generational wealth are often worried about succession to their children and want to create a trust structure to manage that,’ he says. ‘I do a lot of complex governance succession pieces.’ 

Originally qualifying as a lawyer in the UK, he has lived in Geneva for over a decade.