On the afternoon of August 4, 2025, Gaopeng Law Firm held a special seminar on "Compliance Operation of Individual and Enterprise Foreign Assets" in Beijing. The event brings together domestic and foreign legal experts to conduct in-depth analysis on four core issues: BVI and Cayman trust structure, compliant operation and tax declaration of overseas assets, risk isolation of home and enterprise, and tracking of mainland litigation related assets in Hong Kong. It provides professional practical guidance for entrepreneurs, high net worth individuals, home offices, and private banking departments attending the event, helping to solve compliance pain points in global asset allocation.
Fleur O'Driscoll
The first session of the seminar was hosted by Fleur O'Driscoll, a partner at Baker&Associates, on "Legal Issues Related to the Establishment of Overseas Trusts: A Case Study of the Cayman Islands and BVI". As a senior lawyer practicing in both the Cayman Islands and the BVI, Fleur focuses on the "dispute resolution and asset protection" scenarios of offshore trusts, and combines practical cases such as cross-border receiver agency and fraudulent property recovery to analyze the legal characteristics and applicable scenarios of VISTA Trust in the Cayman Islands and STAR Trust in the BVI.
Li Junyan
Li Junyan, a lawyer from Gaopeng Law Firm and practicing lawyer in New York State, China and the United States, focuses on the theme of "Compliance of Domestic Funds for Outbound and Overseas Income Tax Reporting". Combining with the recent hot topics of personal overseas income tax declaration under the CRS information exchange system (click to view our article "630" approaching, legal risks to be prevented in overseas personal income tax collection "), he dissects the legal paths and tax traps of cross-border capital flow. And analyzed the compliance issues of overseas fund operations and potential legal risks related to identity conversion and departure structure construction.
Sun Meiyan, Wu Ailing (from top to bottom)
Sun Meiyan, Senior Partner of Gaopeng Law Firm, and Wu Ailing, Lawyer, jointly bring a special presentation on "Risk Isolation and Prevention of the Mixing of Home and Enterprise", focusing on the pain points commonly faced by private entrepreneurs who are unable to distinguish between home and enterprise. They deeply analyze the hidden dangers of wealth management caused by this - when the boundary between family and enterprise assets is blurred, the foundation of the wealth pyramid is easily shaken. Two lawyers approach from the five core concerns of debt risk, legal and tax compliance, investment safety, marital changes, and inheritance arrangements, combined with the perspective of full cycle wealth management. Through real cases such as equity proxy disputes and major equity division marriage and family cases represented by themselves, they vividly reveal the potential crisis brought about by asset mixing between families and enterprises, and systematically sort out practical and feasible risk isolation strategies and legal prevention paths. It is worth mentioning that Lawyer Sun Meiyan and Lawyer Wu Ailing have innovatively proposed the service model of "Legal Examination and Evaluation Report for Home Enterprise Assets". By comprehensively and accurately assessing the current status of clients' family and enterprise assets, identifying potential risk points, and tailoring planning solutions, we assist high net worth clients in achieving effective isolation of family and enterprise assets, harmonious stability within the family, and orderly inheritance of corporate governance, truly achieving the wealth management goal of "being able to see clearly, manage effectively, and pass down".
Liao Minhao
Denis Chang's Chambers, a barrister in Hong Kong, and a lawyer practicing in the UK, Hong Kong, and BVI, concludes with "Cross border Property Tracking and Preservation Measures in Mainland China Involving Hong Kong". Combining international arbitration and cross-border dispute resolution experience, he analyzes the practical path of property protection in Hong Kong. It provides a detailed explanation of the "Mutual Assistance and Preservation Arrangement for Arbitration Procedures between Mainland China and Hong Kong", guiding enterprises to obtain frozen disputed assets through commercial injunctions and cross-border evidence retrieval.
Activity group photo
After the seminar, the attending guests interacted with the lecturer on topics such as "Scenario Selection of VISTA Trust and STAR Trust" and "New Policies on Capital Export". The on-site discussion focused on practical topics such as "Balancing Compliance Costs and Efficiency" and "Global Adaptation of Family Wealth Inheritance". The Gao Peng legal team introduced special services such as "Cross border Asset Compliance Management" and "Family Enterprise Asset Sorting and Risk Isolation Project". In the future, Gaopeng Law Firm will continue to deeply cultivate the legal field of cross-border wealth management, integrate domestic and foreign resources, and provide professional services to help clients achieve the dual goals of "asset security+global layout", laying a solid legal foundation for the compliant operation of cross-border assets.
