Jacopo Crivellaro
Biography
Jacopo Crivellaro is of counsel in the Firm's Dubai office, focusing on tax and wealth planning advice for high-net-worth individuals and family offices. His experience includes working as legal counsel for a Middle Eastern single family office. Jacopo has practiced law since 2013, and he previously worked in the Firm's Zurich and Geneva offices, prior to joining the Dubai office in 2025. He is admitted to practice in New York, US Tax Court, and England and Wales.
Practice Focus
Jacopo has extensive experience advising family offices and high-net-worth individuals with US, UK, Middle Eastern, Swiss or Italian connections on cross-border wealth and tax planning. His expertise includes family office structuring and operations, mobility and pre-immigration planning, insurance strategies, cross-generational wealth transfer, asset protection, individual tax planning and cross-border treatment of foundations and trusts.
In addition to publishing extensively in US, UK and European legal and tax publications, Jacopo also co-authored a treatise in Italian on cross-border estate planning, 'Forme di Pianificazione Patrimoniale' published by Dike Giuridica in 2018.
Representative Legal Matters
- Advised the executor of a USD 100 million+ estate comprising assets located across more than 15 jurisdictions, on estate administration, cross‑border succession, asset realisation, and coordinated liquidation.
- Advised several single family offices on the acquisition, structuring, and restructuring of residential prime real estate portfolios in the United Kingdom and the United States, including through layered holding, trust, and foundation structures.
- Advised a multijurisdictional family spanning three generations and 5+ jurisdictions on cross‑generational asset transfers, succession planning, and long‑term wealth preservation strategies.
- Counselled high‑net‑worth families on the tax treatment and classification of trusts and foundations in a cross‑border context, including as part of pre‑immigration, relocation, and exit planning.
- Designed and implemented family governance frameworks for the joint ownership and stewardship of sensitive family‑owned businesses and assets, including shareholder arrangements, governance charters, and dispute‑mitigation mechanisms.
- Acted as lead adviser on the restructuring and rationalisation of international family business holding structures, including advice on succession‑driven reorganisations.
- Advised on estate and succession planning aspects of substantial operating businesses, including inter‑generational transfers, control mechanisms, and alignment between ownership, governance, and management.
- Advised families and family offices on cross‑border inheritance, forced heirship, and conflict‑of‑laws issues, including planning strategies to manage succession risk across civil law and common law jurisdictions.
Professional Honors
- Young Practitioner of the Year, STEP (2019)
Admissions
- Dubai - Registered Legal Consultant (2025)
- England & Wales~United Kingdom (2019)
- New York~United States (2013)
- U.S. Tax Court~United States (2013)
Education
- New York University (Executive LLM in Tax) (2018)
- Oxford University (St. Catherine's College) (BCL) (2013)
- King's College London (LLB English & American Law) (2012)
- Columbia Law School (JD) (2012)
Languages
- English
- Italian
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