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Cases · People & private matters · Family, succession & private client
Administer an estate with assets abroad
WONE Global coordinates probate, inheritance tax and the transfer of assets in each country through local professionals, reporting to the family in one place.
Countries in the typical case United Kingdom · Switzerland · Spain
The situation
Someone has died with assets in several countries and the family must collect them.
What is at stake
Foreign assets can stay frozen for years while families struggle with unfamiliar procedures and languages.
Who faces this
A scenario
FamilyPrivate client or family · from United Kingdom · in Switzerland, Spain
After their father's death, they must deal with bank accounts in Switzerland and a house in Spain, in two languages and two procedures.
Where it ends The estate collected without the family doing it alone.
A representative scenario of the work WONE Global coordinates, not a specific client’s matter.
Also asked as “Probate in another country”“Inheriting property overseas”“My parent died and left property and money in other countries”“A family member has died owning assets in several countries”“An heir needs help administering a foreign probate estate”
The solution
WONE Global coordinates probate, inheritance tax and the transfer of assets in each country through local professionals, reporting to the family in one place.
Usually led by Contracts and commercial law, with Tax and structuring, Banking and capital and Accounting and annual filings.
Step by step, in the scenario
Timings are typical. They depend on the countries, the authorities involved and how quickly documents are available.
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Outcomes
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Services
One area of expertise usually leads; the others move with it. WONE Global keeps them connected across every country involved.
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The status of the lead service in the markets that matter for this case. A named WONE Global Partner acts under their own licence; where none is in place yet, WONE Global confirms availability before anything else.
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Buenos Aires · ArgentinaWONE Global Capability Partner · Argentina
He is a lawyer with a degree from the University of Buenos Aires and a degree in Spanish Law. He completed postgraduate studies in Strategic Business Management at the Polytechnic University of Madrid and the Glocoll at…
Brunswick · AustraliaWONE Global Capability Partner · Australia
São Paulo · BrazilWONE Global Capability Partner · Brazil
Douala · CameroonWONE Global Capability Partner · Cameroon
Shanghai · ChinaWONE Global Capability Partner · China
Roberto Gilardino is Regional Partner at Horizons, supervising the advisory’s activities in North Asia as well as additional countries (including Mongolia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, UAE, Cyprus and Malta).
Tel Aviv · IsraelWONE Global Capability Partner · Israel
Adv. Karin Horev has been practicing corporate and commercial law for more than 20 years, with a focus on complex technology-related matters. Over the years, Karin has led a large number of complex and wide-ranging tran…
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