Alex Berman
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Alex Berman

Partner
London

Areas of expertise

Private client tax advice, including:

  • Personal and family investment structures

  • Residence and domicile

  • Succession planning

  • Holding structures for private business owners

  • Trusts and international structures

Experience

Alex specialises in advising private clients and their businesses on the breadth of their tax matters.

His clients appreciate receiving clear and practical tax advice, tailored to their broader commercial, investment and family objectives.

Notable client work and achievements

Alex's experience includes advising:

  • Family manager-owners of a national market-leading business on their holding structure, sale planning and estate planning

  • A non-UK domiciled family with a significant London real estate portfolio and complex international trust structure

  • Families on estate planning and investment company structures

  • An individual with a long standing HMRC enquiry, which was settled on positive, collaborative terms

  • The estate of a deceased businessman with international assets and beneficiaries, involving multiple wills and the establishment of new estate planning structures

  • Many individuals relocating to or from the UK

  • A US citizen on the restructuring and sale of a UK business and establishment of a trust and investment company structure.

Professional qualifications/memberships

Chartered Institute of Taxation

Association of Taxation Technicians

eprivateclient NextGen Leader 2023 and 2024

Citywealth Future Leaders Awards – Accountant of the Year Partner/Director 2024

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Autumn Budget 2025: Private equity

There were fewer changes than some feared for private equity investors and their portfolio companies, but the broad package of varied tax changes will impact everyone in years to come.

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Autumn Budget 2025: Limited tax changes specific to international individuals – for now

Following significant tax changes in the Autumn 2024 Budget, including the abolition of the non-UK domiciled tax regime, it was unsurprising that this year’s Budget contained little that will specifically impact the tax treatment for international individuals.

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