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Forum Overview
Location: Dates & Venue, TBA
The Steering Committee welcomes a small group of preeminent fiduciary litigators and trustees from around the world, each of whom has been personally selected based on their experience and specialization in resolving disputes for UHNW international families. This Forum provides an opportunity to explore common concerns, exchange ideas and resolve challenges faced on behalf of these clients.
Using candid, seminar-style discussion, the group identifies trends and developments in their varied jurisdictions for meaningful dialogue on the most interesting and provocative issues of the day.
2025 Steering Committee
Committee Co-Chairs
Charles specialises in international commercial litigation including fraud and asset tracing, large scale international disputes, arbitrations, trusts litigation and contractual disputes.
Basil Zirinis has been a partner in S&C’s Estates and Personal Group since 1994 and leads its international private client practice from London and New York. He represents individuals, fiduciaries and family-controlled businesses throughout the world in a broad range of matters, including domestic and international estate and trust planning, family business governance and transition, estate and trust administration and litigation. He speaks regularly at international conferences regarding U.S. and international tax and estate planning.
Committee Members
Described in Chambers & Partners as “an unsurpassed advocate at the Chancery Bar”, Gilead has appeared in many high-profile cases in recent years, both in the UK and abroad. He receives praise for “his ability ‘to pull rabbits out of hats’ in fiendishly difficult cases” (HNW Guide 2016), and is consistently recommended in the major legal directories. The recent Chambers 2019 edition ranks him in Band 1 for both Traditional Chancery and Trusts and in Band 2 for Offshore and Art and Cultural Property. “He’s a trial barrister. He is a supergun you bring out for the cases where you really want to get on with matters.” The Legal 500 describes him as “a genius and a great strategist”, commenting that he is “fast becoming one of the most sought-after senior Chancery practitioners”. He was described by Who’s Who Legal 2018 as “one of the top silks in our research this year”, and is one of five silks in the “Most Highly Regarded” category. He is also featured in Legal Week’s Private Client Global Elite, and was the winner of the Antiquities Law Barrister of the Year Award in the Lawyer Monthly Legal Awards 2016.
After a first experience in a US law firm, I joined UGGC’s Tax and Private Client Department, which I have been associated with since 2011. I also participate in numerous working groups and host conferences abroad and dedicated debates on private international law and international taxation.
Arabella is the firm's Private Wealth Director and advises wealthy families, trustees and private banks on a range of wealth planning and structuring matters and on risk management.
Philippe Pulfer heads the Geneva Private Client practice. He is widely recognised as one of Switzerland’s leading private client lawyers and, for nearly 20 years, has been constantly top-ranked by all major professional directories. He is one of only two Swiss private client lawyers ranked in Chambers Global and has been described by Legal 500 as 'one of the most knowledgeable trust and private client practitioners in Switzerland'. He has been included in the Legal Week Private Client Global Elite since the ranking’s inaugural edition in 2012.
"Adam Streisand is widely regarded as one of the nation's top trial attorneys, particularly in high profile litigation involving private wealth disputes, fiduciary litigation, business succession and partnership disputes and litigation involving trusts, estates and conservatorships" (Los Angeles Business Journal, "Top Litigators", August 13, 2018). Mr. Streisand is best known for his victories in courtroom battles over celebrity estates and, as Bill Plaschke of the Los Angeles Times wrote: "Streisand was the lawyer who … rescued both local NBA teams." Mr. Streisand’s trial victory for former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer against Donald Sterling resulted in Ballmer’s $2 billion purchase of the Los Angeles Clippers. But, as the Los Angeles Daily Journal explained, what captured the legal world completely by surprise was his "particularly adept legal gambit involving a rarely invoked clause of California’s probate code" that made it all happen. As the Los Angeles Times noted, two years later, “Adam Streisand carried the future of the Lakers into Room 629 at the Stanley Mosk Courthouse in downtown Los Angeles. The veteran attorney is no stranger to high profile cases…. In a very real way, he [was] being asked to save the Lakers." As ESPN reported, “Jeanie Buss and her lawyer Adam Streisand won a decisive legal victory to prevent a coup attempt.”
Andrea is Head of the Private Client & Tax department and a member of the contentious trust and estates team. She specialises in advising individuals, trustees and trust companies in complex, high value disputes both domestically and internationally. Andrea is aware that family relationships are often at stake and she takes that responsibility seriously. She is highly regarded for her ability to engage with clients and other professionals in a sympathetic and constructive manner.
Forum Director
Kristina is a graduate of the University of Toronto and is accredited as a Certified Meeting Professional (CMP), a globally recognized badge of excellence in the meeting and event industry.
Prior to joining Cambridge Forums, Kristina worked for the Toronto International Film Festival where she successfully planned and hosted events for high-level donors, corporate clients and film stars.
Outside the office, Kristina is passionate about learning new things, being outdoors, trying new cuisines and exploring the world one country at a time.
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