Alessia Paoletto

Practice Areas

Alessia is a partner in the private client team and tax team.

She is a dual qualified English solicitor and Italian lawyer (avvocato). She advises on a range of wealth planning matters affecting high net worth individuals, entrepreneurs and their families, in respect of their international estate planning, trust and tax matters, as well as on cross-border inheritance disputes with an emphasis on the complex interaction between the English conflict of laws system and the Continental rules.

One of the main focus of her practice is international and multijurisdictional estate planning, where she has developed particular strength in the analysis of the conflict of laws systems of various countries, the EU Succession Regulation and the EU Matrimonial Property Regulation, their impact in a UK cross-border context, and their scope as a planning tool for mobile and international individuals and families. Her dual qualification means that she is able to consider each case from both a civil law and common law viewpoint whilst always maintaining a practical approach.

Alessia also advises executors, trustees and beneficiaries in complex international probate and trust matters, often managing multijurisdictional cases and teams, and in stress-testing their structures from a Continental viewpoint.

Her client base primarily consists of high net worth individuals, international families with wealth across different countries, entrepreneurs, and city professionals, as well as foreign trustees and family offices. Her wider wealth planning practice includes assisting non-UK resident clients with pre-immigration tax planning, ongoing UK tax and remittance planning, as well pre-deemed domicile planning for long term UK residents and exit strategies.