Alexander Erskine

London UK

Featured award

Chambers High Net Worth Guide 2025

Ranked as Band 3 for Family Offices & Fund Structuring. Recognised as 'up and coming' for Private Wealth Law.

Alexander specialises in advising ultra-high net worth individuals and families on crossborder tax and succession planning. He also has a particular focus on transparency issues in an international context.

He advises individuals and professional intermediaries on how to remain compliant and manage their risk, as well as in relation to global mobility and on how to structure wealth holdings and plan for the future. Alexander has a broad international client base of individuals and their families as well as professional trustees in various jurisdictions. Alexander also advises clients in relation to the creation and restructuring of family offices and alternative vehicles for co-investment, including corporates and partnerships.

Alexander's clients know they can rely on him to guide them through complex scenarios and optimise their overall position, including as to tax. He guides clients through difficult tax regularisation and disclosure exercises, as well as creating, administering and reorganising holding structures in a tax efficient and compliant manner, and on relocation and cross-border investment. He also advises private clients on controlling the flow of their information under international transparency rules and private wealth intermediaries on managing their institutional risk.

Expertise

Rechtsgebiete und Gruppen

Private Client

Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG)

Steuerrisiken & Steuerplanung

Branchen

Private Wealth

CV

Since 2019 Partner, Taylor Wessing

2018 - 2019 Senior Counsel, Taylor Wessing

2011 - 2018 Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing

Karriere

Since 2019 Partner, Taylor Wessing

2018 - 2019 Senior Counsel, Taylor Wessing

2011 - 2018 Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing

Ausbildung

2009 Admitted as a lawyer, England and Wales

2006 MA Jurisprudence, Christ Church, University of Oxford

Publikationen

The UK's New Anti-Tax Evasion Regime: Guilty Until Somehow Proven Innocent, WealthBriefing, November 2017
Reserved Power Trusts – Greater Reserve and Less Reservation, Offshore Investment, May 2015, issue 256
In-house Family Office Lawyers: Whose Privilege Is It Anyway?, Bloomberg Family Office Special Report, June 2014
Expert Advice Q&A – are classic cars about to become subject to capital gains tax?, Spear's online, March 2014
The 'Cancer' of Tax Avoidance and the Prescribed Remedy, Journal of Tax, Trust and Corporate Planning, 2013, Vol 20, No.1