Overview
Parslows International Trust and Foundation lawyers provide smart, flexible, high quality Trust, Foundation and Pensions legal services with the added advantage of Fixed Fee arrangements.
Whether you require a Jersey trust or Jersey foundation structure for succession purposes, asset protection, tax efficiency, family governance or confidentiality, Parslows International Jersey Trusts and Jersey Foundation experts focus on providing the best and most most appropriate solution for each client.
We act for leading trust companies, intermediaries, accountants and other financial institutions, as well as family offices, trustees, beneficiaries and High Net Worth private clients globally.
We’re at home working closely within a cross-jurisdiction team of professionals delivering on all aspects of wealth and estate planning and family office services.
Our expertise covers the full range of multi-jurisdictional trust, foundation and corporate asset holding structures, from design and implementation through to restructuring and termination. The team also has considerable experience advising on the establishment and administration of international retirement benefit and employee incentive schemes.
Expertise
- Jersey Trusts and ancillary deeds
- Jersey Pensions
- Charitable and non-charitable purpose trusts
- Wealth structuring
- Jersey Foundations
- Family office services
- Employee incentive / retirement benefit schemes
- Estate planning
Legal 500 ranked | The ‘highly regarded‘ Mason Birbeck heads the trusts and private wealth department at Parslows, which is valued for being ‘highly responsive in all areas‘ and, according to one client, ‘more attentive than its competitors‘. The group recently facilitated the transfer of trusteeship of five Jersey law trusts, and is currently representing a foreign settlor of a discretionary trust in disputes arising from the breakdown of family relations. Birbeck also oversaw the establishment of a family office and guided a financial services company through its application for trust and funds service licenses with the appropriate government bodies.
Contact us
Please telephone us at our London office on + 44 020 3793 0345 or our Jersey office on + 44 01534 630530
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People
Mason Birbeck
Trusts, Foundations & Private Wealth
Mason is head of our international trust foundations and private client team. He is based in our Jersey office. Prior to joining Parslows, Mason was a partner at Collas Crill and before that he was at Bedell Cristin.
Mason brings together expertise in trusts, foundations, corporate and commercial law, finance, risk and regulation, pension and employee incentive schemes.
He has over fifteen years experience advising on all aspects of non-contentious trust and foundation law including the establishment and operation of private trust, foundation and family partnership structures for UNHW families, will trusts, trusts for charitable and non-charitable purposes and unit trusts for commercial trust structures.
Mason is recommended as a “leading individual” by the Legal 500 and was named as a prominent figure in the Citywealth Leaders List in 2014/15/16/ 17. Mason is an author of the ICSA Guide to Jersey Foundations, and Sweet & Maxwell’s publication “World’s Leading Financial & Trust Centres”.
Mason is a full member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. He also sits on the financial services committee of Jersey’s Chamber of Commerce.