Alex Boothman

Alex advises on tax planning for UK and non-UK domiciled individuals, focusing on domicile, tax residency, remittance basis, SDLT, and ATED, to optimise clients’ tax positions. 

• Advised an ultra-high-net-worth billionaire Dutch client and his advisers in relation to his worldwide affairs and structures including tax planning, running his trust/corporate structures, purchasing high-end residential property, purchasing and holding a very high-value art collection, and investment in his family business. 
• Advised one of the largest family-owned UK retail businesses in relation to a restructuring of their trust and company holding structure, asset protection, tax planning opportunities and succession planning. 
• Advised an ultra-high-net-worth Swedish businessman in relation to a multimillion-pound proposed investment in a UK oil prospecting group in a tax-efficient manner. 
• Advised an ultra-high-net-worth Italian family with Italian, Swiss, US and UK connections on potential inheritance/estate tax planning, asset protection and succession planning options in relation to an offshore structure which would also finance a multimillion-pound investment fund run by a family member. 
• Advised an ultra-high-net-worth Swiss family in relation to their worldwide affairs, specifically advising on and selling their minority interests in a multinational retail company held through various offshore corporate and discretionary trust structures. 
• Successfully claimed sovereign immunity on a very high-value residential property portfolio, saving the client tens of millions of pounds in tax. 
• Advised on a mixed-use and 6 or more SDLT applications to apply the commercial rate on a £17.5m purchase, saving the client over £2m in SDLT. 
• Advised on a collective enfranchisement restructuring, saving the client over £7.5m in SDLT by managing to qualify for the commercial rate of SDLT under the 6 or more rule. 
• Advised on a multiple dwellings relief application on the purchase of a central London house with a cottage in the garden, saving the client £75,000 in SDLT. 

Alex advises on succession planning, asset protection, and complex cross-border probate and estate administration, particularly for high-net-worth clients. 

• Advised a German executor in relation to a high-value and contentious complex cross-border estate with assets and beneficiaries in Germany, Luxembourg and the UK. 
• Advised a senior UK judge on estate planning and preparing his will. 

Alex provides asset protection and structuring advice for high-net-worth individuals, handling trusts, wills, estate planning, inheritance tax, and lasting powers of attorney. 

• Advised an ultra-high-net-worth billionaire Middle Eastern family in relation to setting up an asset protection trust structure to hold the family’s worldwide residential property, aircraft, boats and art. 
• Advised an ultra-high-net-worth Russian family on the creation of an asset protection structure to hold the principal’s shares in a high-value Russian business in trust for his family. 
• Advised an ultra-high-net-worth Swedish businessman in relation to a multimillion-pound proposed investment in a UK oil prospecting group in a tax-efficient manner. 
• Advised one of the largest family-owned UK retail businesses in relation to a restructuring of their trust and company holding structure, asset protection, tax planning opportunities and succession planning. 
• Advised a senior UK judge on estate planning and preparing his will. 

Alex advises high-net-worth families on wealth structuring, estate planning, and luxury asset preservation.  

• Advised an ultra-high-net-worth billionaire Middle Eastern family in relation to setting up an asset protection trust structure to hold the family’s worldwide residential property, aircraft, boats and art. 
• Advised an ultra-high-net-worth billionaire Dutch client and his advisers in relation to his worldwide affairs and structures including tax planning, running his trust/corporate structures, purchasing high-end residential property, purchasing and holding a very high-value art collection, and investment in his family business. 
• Advised an ultra-high-net-worth Russian family on the creation of an asset protection structure to hold the principal’s shares in a high-value Russian business in trust for his family. 
• Advised an ultra-high-net-worth Swedish businessman in relation to a multimillion-pound proposed investment in a UK oil prospecting group in a tax-efficient manner. 
• Advised one of the largest family-owned UK retail businesses in relation to a restructuring of their trust and company holding structure, asset protection, tax planning opportunities and succession planning. 
• Advised an ultra-high-net-worth Italian family with Italian, Swiss, US and UK connections on potential inheritance/estate tax planning, asset protection and succession planning options in relation to an offshore structure which would also finance a multimillion-pound investment fund run by a family member. 
• Advised an ultra-high-net-worth Swiss family in relation to their worldwide affairs, specifically advising on and selling their minority interests in a multinational retail company held through various offshore corporate and discretionary trust structures. 
• Advised a German executor in relation to a high-value and contentious complex cross-border estate with assets and beneficiaries in Germany, Luxembourg and the UK. 

Recognised by Chambers High Net Worth for Private Wealth Law 2022–2026

Recognised by The Legal 500 for Personal Tax, Trusts and Probate 2022–2026 

Awarded ePrivateclient’s Top 35 Under 35 Private Client Practitioners 2014