Butterfield is the leading, independent offshore bank and trust company headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda. We provide services to clients from Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, Guernsey and Jersey, where our principal banking operations are located, and The Bahamas, Switzerland, Singapore and the United Kingdom, where we offer specialised trust services, private banking, asset management and custody. When it comes to trust, Butterfield offers a flexible approach to holding a wide variety of assets, and prides itself on providing solutions to meet the varied requirements of private and institutional clients, family offices, charities and philanthropic organisations. Our award-winning team specialises in wealth planning and trust administration, and dealing with complex structures for the growth, protection and transfer of assets. Butterfield is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (symbol: NTB) and the Bermuda Stock Exchange (symbol: NTB.BH).
Crestbridge Fiduciary brings client families the benefit of two preeminent independent firms; Crestbridge Family Office Services which has a footprint in leading international finance centers, and Willow Street, a leading Wyoming-based trustee and fiduciary. Through Crestbridge Fiduciary, families with existing or planned US-based connections can access a comprehensive and sophisticated global platform for protecting and structuring wealth. With team members located in three leading trust jurisdictions – Wyoming, the Cayman Islands and Jersey – we offer a unique cross-border perspective and work cohesively to manage structures across multiple jurisdictions. Our offerings include corporate trustee services and private trust company advisory governance and administration.
We pair resolute client focus with a high level of transparency, responsiveness and close collaboration with families and their teams of advisors. Our clients benefit from our high touch relationship management and the deep, diverse expertise and uncompromising integrity of our team.
For over 130 years, Northern Trust has earned distinction as an industry leader for exceptional service, financial expertise, integrity and innovation; as a leading provider of wealth management, asset servicing, asset management and banking to corporations, institutions, affluent families and individuals around the globe.
Global Family and Private Investment Offices (GFO) is a dedicated practice within Northern Trust, serving the needs of more than 500 clients, including family offices, family foundations, ultra-high-net-worth individuals, private trust companies and private investment companies in over 30 countries. GFO delivers high quality asset serving, investment, technology, fiduciary, banking and advisory solutions to its clients, including more than 30% of the Forbes 400.
Serle Court offers genuine expertise across a broad range of chancery and commercial disciplines – covering the whole range of ‘business’ law, from offshore litigation about the world’s largest companies to domestic advice on probate matters, for both private and professional clients at home and abroad. One of our core practice areas is trusts and we are applauded for being “the leading chambers for the big offshore trusts disputes,” and for having “a varied spectrum of skilled practitioners". Serle Court was named ‘Set of the Year’ at the Chambers High Net Worth Awards 2022.
Summit Trust International is an independent trust services group, founded in 1999 as Close Trustees (Switzerland) SA and headquartered in Geneva. Summit Trust International also has offices in London and the Cayman Islands. The group philosophy is to provide robust, un-conflicted trust and company management on a multi-jurisdictional basis. Summit Trust International brings a combination of financial and management stability which enables it to provide continuity in personal relationships and the orderly passing of family wealth for high net worth individuals who require offshore trust and company management services. Summit Trust is characterized by specialization, professionalism and integrity. Because Summit Trust is committed to an independent trust administration policy, it is free to work with your existing financial advisers, lawyers, bankers and asset managers, or introduce you to suitable advisers if you do not yet have your preferred team. The bottom line? Expect to find familiar faces at Summit Trust International but not familiar solutions. Our people are under no pressure to sell you any particular product, just to provide you with the right service for your needs. We are not expecting to be the biggest offshore services provider, but we are striving to be the best.