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Professional Biography

Shan is a prominent English KC and an international advisor and litigator specialising in trusts, other wealth structures and estates. She travels the world from her base in the Cayman Islands and is to be found "everywhere" according to the guides who also describe her as being at "the pinnacle of her profession and sheer class". Shan also acts as a protector, s director of a private trust company and a mediator of trust and estates disputes.

What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?

Caprice at the Four Seasons in Hong Kong

What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?

Never believe your own publicity

What was your first job?

riveting boxes in a metal box factory

What is the book you recommend to everyone?

Thus Was Adonis Murdered by Sarah Caudwell

What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?

More stress-testing existing structures in light of increased attacks on trusts from regulators and others