Full Name
Anthony Poulton
Job Title
Partner
Company
Baker McKenzie LLP
Speaker Bio
Legal Week's Private Client Global Elite 2018:

What has been the highlight of your practice over the past 12 months?

Representing the trustees of a complex structure which owns a significant operating business in managing a process for restructuring and resolving deep, historical family divisions and working alongside respected colleagues in other firms to achieve a lasting solution for the trustees and the family.

What advice would you give rising stars/new lawyers in the private client world?

Represent your client's interests faithfully and uncompromisingly, but always be respectful of the professional relationships you develop with others. Those relationships will sustain your practice in future and help you to better serve your clients.

What is your favourite quote?

"Once, during Prohibition, I survived for days on only food and water!" William Claude Fields.

Bio:
Anthony Poulton is a partner at Baker McKenzie in London and heads the firm's global Wealth Controversy and Trust Disputes team. Anthony and his team represent trustees, banks, ultra high net worth individuals and other parties involved in substantial international disputes connected with the succession of wealth, contested estates, trusts, family discord, divorce and family business governance related issues. Anthony co-chaired the Legal Week Trust and Estates Litigation Forum for 6 years from 2012 to 2017 and is a well known conference speaker.
Anthony Poulton