International Legal Services
International Legal Services
Our international property services are flexible and can be tailored to meet your individual requirements. They include:
Buying and selling
- Instructing estate agents and advising on estate agency agreements
- Advice on important things to think about before buying or selling
- Comprehensive reporting on ownership and contractual issues, title and planning
- Negotiating and amending international property contracts
- Arranging and witnessing powers of attorney
- Reviewing and reporting on international title deeds
- Advising on international tax liabilities and ongoing financial commitments
Resolving disputes
- Advice on resolving international property disputes
- Registering charges on overseas property
- Transferring property following divorce or buying out co-owners
Planning estates
- Advice on structuring the ownership of an overseas purchase
- Post purchase inheritance advice
- Foreign Wills
- Advice on marriage contracts where possible (SCIs and PACS in France for example)
- International tax advice, including wealth tax, gift tax and inheritance tax
Distributing estates
- Administering estates with overseas assets
- Certificates of English law (for recognition overseas)
- Certificates of foreign law (for UK Grant of Probate)
Professional support
In addition to our other services, professional clients regularly ask us to
- Provide expert opinions
- Arrange title searches
- Secure international assets
- Carry out comprehensive due diligence on projects and partners
- Draft and advise on commercial agreements