Intro : Multi-Jurisdictional Strategies, the Need to Know What you Don't Know

With the explosion of information and telecommunication technologies it has become much easier to invest and/or do businesses in more than one country as it was doing business in the neighboring town 25 years ago.

Today I can start before breakfast catching up with my office/asset manager in Hong Kong, at lunch Skype with the branch/investment banker in London and before dinner deal with the agent/private banker in New York, all in a single day.

This speed and ease of communication have changed the absolute need to deal with or be aware of different rule sets, laws and regulations applicable to the same “estate” or family assets in different countries, at the same time.

These different countries' rules, regulations and laws also increased the risk to lose or waste financial assets on items such as unnecessary double taxation or withholdings taxes, exchange control and administrative penalties, or be subject to…