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Given the international mobility of wealthy individuals and their families, it is vital that they and their local advisers have a resource to guide them through the often significantly different legal frameworks they may face in other jurisdictions in which they choose to live, do business and invest. Private Client seeks to draw together the main issues of importance to a private client in this situation covering: rules in relation to tax, succession, the holding and management of property and immigration.

This volume provides comparative analysis of real estate regulations in different jurisdictions worldwide, with answers to crucial questions in key areas such as: acquisition of real estate, including recording conveyance documents, foreign investors, investment entities, leases and mortgages and contracts and financing, including liens, interest, enforcement, protection of collateral, covenants and bankruptcy.

Perpetrators of fraud and corruption have increasingly benefited from the quickening technological changes that make it simple to break down barriers across international borders when dealing with the transmission of information and the movement of assets. This publication provides expert summaries of the laws and regulations which have been developed to freeze and repatriate the proceeds of fraud and corruption. Both civil and criminal asset recovery are covered in this volume.