Will Van Neste

Area of expertise

• Family office services
• Fiduciary services
• Trust, company and foundation management and administration
• Corporate governance and company secretarial services
• Private client structuring and restructuring (including JV investment structures and financial, corporate and lifestyle asset holding structures)
• Real estate
• Litigation funding structures and vehicles
• Intellectual property holding vehicles
• Private trust companies 
• Jersey charities
• Succession planning and asset protection 
• Corporate and institutional client services (as part of prior role)
• Capital markets services (as part of prior role)

Responsibilities

Will manages a team of eight administrators, with four direct reports. He has a client book consisting of a variety of complex family office, private client, and corporate structures, as well as Jersey charitable, ESG and impact initiatives. Will’s client base spans the UK, Jersey, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and North America.

Will services a broad base of asset classes, including ultra-high value residential and investment real estate, professionally managed financial investment portfolios, operating and trading companies, charitable ventures, special purpose funding and JV vehicles, and substantial privately-owned corporate operating structures.

Will also holds directorship positions on client entities and private trust companies that Hawksford service, as well as being an authorised signatory for Hawksford’s in-house corporate trustee, directorship, and nominee entities.

Qualifications and memberships

• BA (Hons) Offshore Financial Services
• ICSA (CGI) Certificate in Offshore Finance and Administration
• ICSA (CGI) Diploma in Offshore Finance and Administration – Merit
• CG (Affiliated)

Notable Achievements

• ICSA 2014 Corporate Governance Team of the Year
• ICSA 2015 Corporate Services Team of the Year and Administration Team of the Year
• ICSA 2016 Risk & Compliance Award
• ICSA 2017 Shortlist for Corporate Services, Governance, Risk & Compliance, and Administration Team of the Year
• ICSA 2018 Shortlist for Corporate Services and Governance Team of the Year
• ICSA 2019 Shortlist for Administration and Risk & Compliance Team of the Year