Birketts Trust Corporation Limited (company number 14672488) is a company incorporated purely to act as an independent trustee, executor or attorney.
Trustees, executors and attorneys are often appointed in their personal capacity. While this approach is familiar, it risks becoming burdensome over time: individuals may retire, become incapacitated, or die, with such events requiring formal deeds of appointment and the transfer of legal title to assets. These changes can be costly and administratively intensive, particularly where bank consents and replacement security arrangements are involved.
For families with substantial estates or complex trust arrangements, it is increasingly common for trustees to be appointed through a corporate structure. A corporate trustee provides continuity: the retirement of individual directors is irrelevant as it is the company itself that is the trustee, not the individual director. The expense of appointing new trustees and transferring the trust assets to them is avoided and you do not need to worry about unexpected vacancies caused by death or incapacity (and the implications of any such vacancies).
The Directors of the trust corporation are Lorna Spear, Emily O’Donnell, Susan Young Jack Royall, Gavin Birchall, Louise Long and Daden Hunt, all of whom are partners at Birketts LLP and all of whom have many years of experience of working in the administration of estates and trusts.
