IBA 30th Annual International Private Client Tax Conference

2-4 March 2025 (Raffles London at the OWO, London, England)

IBA 30th Annual International Private Client Conference on the theme "Navigating the private client world in turbulent times", presented by the IBA Private Client Tax Committee and supported by the IBA Family Law Committee.

Participation of Patricia KEMAYOU MENGUE, Head of the Corporate & Tax Department and Ewelina WASOWSKA, Head of the Family Office Department.

The programme includes sessions/workshops, meetings, sharing views and exchanging information with practitioners from a wide range of civil and common law jurisdictions on current issues and fundamental questions of international planning, with the interests of our private clients in mind.

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Topics covered included:

• The death of the tax-free regimes: what should we be thinking about instead? In addition to significant changes in certain local tax regimes, the EU and OECD have indicated their willingness to introduce global minimum taxes for individuals.
• Challenging tax residency: is there enough substance in your residence? What are the best practices for establishing and defending a new tax residence
• Round table session: 30 years of private client planning: What has changed, what went right and what went wrong? Will history repeat itself?
• 10th anniversary of the EU-regulation on successions: On 17 August 2015, the EU Regulation came into force, creating harmonised conflict-of-law rules for cross-border successions within the EU and introducing a European Certificate of Succession. Now, nearly ten years later, what is working and what is not?
• Protecting the family business: Preventing the avoidable and solving problems inside and outside the family business.
• Trends in Asia: Jurisdictions stretching from the Asia-Pacific region and the Indian subcontinent to the Middle East.
• Managing digital assets before and after death: Practical insights into the protection and preservation of digital wealth across generations and a review of ongoing efforts to harmonise the treatment of digital assets across jurisdictions.

The conference programme in detail on the official IBA page > https://www.ibanet.org/confere...

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"The International Bar Association (IBA), established in 1947, is the world’s leading organisation of international legal practitioners, bar associations, law firms and law societies.The IBA influences the development of international law reform and shapes the future of the legal profession throughout the world. It has a membership of more than 80,000 individual lawyers and more than 190 bar associations and law societies spanning over 170 countries".

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