The latest moves in wealth management across the UK, Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Carey Olsen
Carey Olsen has appointed Jasmine Amaria as a Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands (BVI) corporate partner in its London office.

Amaria, who joins from another offshore law firm, specialises in both Cayman Islands and BVI corporate law. She has significant experience in investment funds and corporate and finance matters, with a particular emphasis on fund formation and ongoing corporate transactions and financing activities, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, shareholder arrangements and group reorganisations and restructurings. 

Prior to moving offshore, Amaria spent nine years at Slaughter and May, where she trained and qualified.

Close Brothers Asset Management
Close Brothers Asset Management has appointed Andrew Hess, as managing director, to join its high net worth bespoke investment management service in the business’ recently launched office in the West End of London.

Hess previously worked as an investment director at Rathbones for 18 years. He has worked in the industry for over 30 years, managing funds for private clients, pension funds, charities and City livery companies.  He is a Chartered Fellow of the Securities Institute.

The addition follows the arrival of Hugh Adlington, with whom Hess will work alongside, and Tim Eliot-Cohen and Oliver Harvey in London, and Andrew Mackintosh-Walker and John Henderson in Scotland. 

Womble Bond Dickinson
Transatlantic law firm Womble Bond Dickinson has appointed Bob Savic as a tax consultant in the firm's London office. Savic will work with the private wealth team providing bespoke tax advice to high net worth individuals, professional and corporate trustees, as well as financial institutions and insurers.

Savic has adivsed on UK resident and non-domicile tax matters for HNW individuals across the world. 

Vistra
Global trust and corporate services provider Vistra has appointed Clive Wright as managing director of Vistra Jersey. He succeeds Jane Pearce who has been promoted to managing director of the UK, Ireland and Channel Islands. They are both based in the firm’s Jersey offices and are already in post.

Wright will lead strategy development for the wealth management team in Jersey, which specialises in serving high net worth individuals and families.

The 30-year veteran of private banking and wealth management has held senior positions at Kleinwort Hambros, Deutsche Bank, Royal Bank of Canada and HSBC during his career. Most recently, he was head of private wealth management in the Channel Islands and deputy head of private banking at Kleinwort.

In a newly-created role managing Vistra’s business divisions across UK, Ireland, Jersey, and Guernsey, Pearce will work alongside the firm’s divisional and commercial leads and report to Europe regional head Vincent Bremmer.

Vistra works across 46 jurisdictions, offering company formations to trust, fiduciary, fund administration and private client services.