Dear Member
We have a busy season in London with a property webinar (Investment in UK commercial and residential real estate presented by Dmitry Zapol of IFS Consultants) held last week on 4th May which you can listen to on our Brighttalk channel. We have another webinar coming up next week on ‘Entitlement to US treaty benefits for EU residents’ which I will be presenting along with Paul Hocking of Frank Hirth in London and Robert Kiggins in New York – this is at 5pm UK time on 19th May and again can be accessed on the Brighttalk channel. As always, full details are on our website.
The next discussion group is on 24th May to be held at Close Brothers on the topic of the International Family Office and what happens when problems arise in the family such as divorce, death and insolvency. IBSA members are always welcome without charge, and we are always happy to host first time guests so they can get to know what the IBSA is about. As a member, we would be pleased to welcome a guest that you would like to bring to what is likely to be a fascinating discussion (with networking drinks as usual at the end of the event).
We are also preparing for our next workshop following the success of our last one on 12th April on ‘International Tax Disputes’. The next workshop will be on
‘The Business of Sport and Entertainment’ and is on the morning of 22nd June at Saffery Champness office. The programme is on our website, and I am sure that any professional advisor involved with sports personalities or entertainers will find this workshop invaluable. Among the presenters will be Patrick Way QC plus professional advisers and commercial experts conversant with the various issues encountered when planning the career and engagements of these individuals. I have written an extensive article summarising the issues involved which need to be addressed and this can be found on the website as can be seen below in the Articles section of this newsletter. And please don’t forget that we welcome articles from all members which we will feature on our website and send out in our monthly newsletters.
Amongst this month’s articles is a terrific, if somewhat biased, Brexit article from IFX’s economists, which I am sure will be of interest to all our members.
Finally, a note for your diaries please. Our annual members’ dinner will be held this year on Thursday evening November 17th, the night before our annual conference on 18th November entitled
‘Guiding the Development of an SME Client’. We will be uploading the programme for this conference on our website under Events in the next couple of weeks.
With best wishes,
Roy Saunders
IBSA Founder & Chairman