Once you have completed this course you will be able to:

• Provide an overview of the main features of the offshore financial industry.
• Distinguish between legal and equitable ownership rights.
• Comply with a trustee’s fiduciary duties.
• Explain the fundamental requirements to create a valid trust.
• Describe the different formalities necessary for transferring various types of property into trust.
• Navigate your way around a standard trust instrument.
• Explain how tax is levied on individuals and companies that are domiciled or deemed resident for tax purposes in an onshore jurisdiction.
• Explain how a trust may become at risk of being set aside as a sham and avoid that situation occurring.
• Explain the uses of offshore companies in managing and protecting privately held assets.
• Detail the basic procedure to incorporate a company.
• Appreciate when and in what circumstances a company may be wound up.
• Explain the position, role and rights of shareholders.
• Highlight the risks that a service provider undertakes in providing directors and the ways to mitigate these.

The course is broken down into the following modules:

• Module 1: Introduction to International Wealth Management
• Module 2: The Evolution of Equity and the Law of Trusts
• Module 3: The Creation of a Valid Trust
• Module 4: Types of Trust and Interests
• Module 5: Modern Uses of Offshore Trusts
• Module 6: The Administration of Trusts
• Module 7: The Offshore Asset-holding Company
• Module 8: Incorporation, Funding and Dissolution of Companies
• Module 9: Shareholders, Directors and other Officers
• Module 10: Offshore Corporate Services

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Next enrolment between: 15 September and 10 November 2025

The full course timetable can be found here.