The use of offshore trusts and companies offers a wide range of benefits to a private individual looking to structure his or her assets. Alone or in tandem, they can provide effective mechanisms to pursue some or all of the following objectives:

• Protection against domestic policital and economic upheaval
• Tax efficiency
• Efficient asset management via consolidation
• Protection against prodigality
• Confidentiality of ownership
• Protection against forced heirship laws
• Transmission of assets on death

Bedell Trust has considerable experience in working with advisers located in diverse jurisdictions to implement bespoke structures to meet the needs of the international private client. We are truly independent and therefore able to offer a flexible commercially orientated service to meet the individual needs of our clients. Through that independence, not being tied to any one provider, we have unfettered access to a network of the best providers of investment, banking and other services.

Jersey's political stability, its advantageous tax treatment of vehicles created by non-residents of the Island and its comprehensive and modern commercial legislation, often drafted specifically to meet such concerns, all make Jersey a favoured location for offshore structures created by private individuals. With the support of the law firm Bedell Cristin of Bedell Group, Bedell Trust is the ideal choice for the formation and administration of such structures.