Cross-Border Planning: Wealth Management Solutions for the New Age Business Family

Faizal is a UK qualified lawyer and for many years has worked and advised, and is a trusted advisor to institutions, corporates and families across the Middle East, Africa and India. Faizal specialises in banking and finance and has advised corporates, family offices and families including on their international investment and holding structures.

Akeela is the Head of Middle East for Equiom Group, a global company specialising in end-to-end private wealth structuring and business support services to private, institutional, and corporate clients. A UK solicitor with over 12 years’ experience in UK and the Middle East, and with over 20 years of commercial experience, Akeela specialises in advising international businesses and investors on a broad range of corporate commercial matters. Her team of highly experienced qualified corporate services professionals specialise in employee savings/pensions and end of service solutions, governance risk and compliance consulting and outsourcing, company formation, licensing, structuring, company secretariat and corporate administration and bespoke business enabling solutions.

Dipali Maldonado is a Senior Counsel in the Private Client Services team at Al Tamimi & Company and has been ranked Band 1 in Chambers & Partners Private Wealth law for 3 years in a row. Dipali has also been shortlisted for the Wealth Management Lawyer of the Year in the Women in Business Law Awards 2023-EMEA and her team has won multiple awards, most recently the 9th Annual Wealth Briefing MENA Awards for exceptional “Legal advice provision for UHNW individuals, families or wealth managers”. She is a regular speaker at international conferences relating to private wealth, succession and estate planning in the MENA region, newspaper, radio & podcast contributor and has published a number of articles and chapters for the international legal and business community. Dipali is also an active member of Al Tamimi and Company’s India Desk given her large NRI client base.

Richard advises UHNW families and family offices on the co-ordinated structuring of international private wealth. He is a partner at Trowers & Hamlins LLP and has been consistently regarded as one of the most influential professionals working in the private wealth sector.

A member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners since 2006 Dan has more than 20 years' experience in the offshore fiduciary services industry. Utilising Praxis' extensive office network, Dan has a background specialising in wealth structuring for Middle Eastern families looking to safeguard assets for future generations. In his current role Dan assists GCC-based families looking to structure local assets and corporate clients exploring gratuity planning options. He also provides solutions to clients seeking to structure investment through ADGM's Funds regime.