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