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ISN is the first international network of notaries working together as a team to advise private individuals, family offices, financial institutions and law firms on succession issues and practices. Our founding members are based in France, United Kingdom, Switzerland and Italy, and acting together with local contacts in other locations when necessary, are able to assist in most countries across the globe. In the United Kingdom and the USA, in accordance with common law practice, our partners are specialised lawyers rather than notaries. As a team, they offer an unparalleled source of knowledge and experience in this subject.
Remo Bassetti, graduated at the Naples’ University, has been practicing as a notary in Turin since 1992.
His advice often focuses on succession planning, also with reference to the assets protection, he was editor and co-author of one of the most recent books on trust published in Italy, “Trust: criticalities, corrections and developments”, to which several university professors collaborated. Among the topics covered by the author, also that on trusts and succession, in which the trust is presented as a valid alternative to the will in succession planning. In the family context, in 2014, when there was still no law on coexistence, he devised a reinforced cohabitation contract, which he called a civil union contract. On this same subject he published the volume “Contracts for coexistence and civil union” with the publisher Giappichelli.
For several years he has helding training courses for lawyers in international succession and inheritance planning for various accredited institutions. It published in 2022 the largest volume currently existing in Italy for the training of real estate agents.
He is also a social science writer for major publishing houses and a journalist.
Arrigo Roveda was born in Milan and graduated in Law in 1985 at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, with a thesis in Civil Law on the leasing contract. He has been a notary since 1990 and in 2009 he was the founder of the Notaries firm RLCD Notai.
He taught at the Lombardy Notary School from academic year 1990/1991 and was in charge of the “Obligations and Contracts” course first, and then of the “Contract in General” course.
He is still collaborating with Bocconi University for the Corporate Law GI Specialization Program.
During his long career, he has played an active role in major notarial bodies. In particular, he served as Chairman of the Notary Council of Milan from February 2013 to February 2017.
He currently sits in the Corporate Study Commission of the National Notary Council and in the Commission in charge of developing uniform principles on corporate matters within Milan’s Notary Council and is the director of the online magazine for notaries Federnotizie.
He attends several conferences on Corporate, Civil and Tax Law as speaker.
Mara Monte is an English qualified solicitor and a partner in the private client and tax team at international law firm, Withersworldwide.
Based in London, Mara advises on a range of wealth planning matters affecting successful individuals, entrepreneurs and their families in respect of their tax, trust and estate planning, whether they are UK resident non-UK domiciled or non UK resident and non-UK domiciled. She has acquired extensive experience in advising clients on the reorganization of foreign holding structures owning UK residential properties so as to minimise UK tax exposure.
Her advice often focuses on issues involving double taxation treaties which the UK has signed with several counterparts (both for income and capital gains tax purposes as well as inheritance and succession tax).
Mara is a native Italian speaker and has an Italian law degree, but re-trained and qualified as an English solicitor. Because of her background, she has experience of advising on the interaction between common law and continental European elements both in connection with trust structures and estate planning and routinely advises Italian and other Continental European clients on matters impacting their wills and succession planning in the UK.
In particular, over the years, her practice has focused on advising clients on the UK tax implications of European style usufruct arrangements created over foreign assets as well as on European insurance bonds issued by insurance companies based in Continental Europe and the UK tax characterization of foreign property holding structures (such as Italian società semplici or French SCIs). This includes advising on the traps as well as on some of the planning opportunities these instruments/investment wrappers can provide from a UK tax perspective.
Caroline Deneuville practices in the fields of family law and private estate law. She specializes in private international law.
She advises French and international private clients in matters of family and inheritance law. So, she assists on marriage contracts, gifts, wills and in general for estate planning. She has acquired a recognized experience in the settlement of international succession, mastering their tax aspects. She also advises on the purchase and sale of real estate for foreign people.
She has published articles in collaboration with solicitors in England and attorneys in the United States and Professor at law concerning estate planning, international succession, reception in France of foreign trust, European regulation on succession and choice of law governing international succession.
She has taken part in numerous conferences in France and throughout the world.
She is a member of the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law, member of the French Committee on Private International Law and Honorary President of ARNU (Association Rencontres Notariat-Université).
Notary Diploma, Paris University, Pantheon Sorbonne – Diploma of International Notarial Law, Private International Law and European Union Law, Lyon University – Private International Law Specialization Certificate issued by the Supreme Council of Notaries.
Gilles Benedick is an attorney-at-law in Switzerland and a Notary public in the Canton of Ticino, Switzerland. Gilles is a partner of the law firm Benedick Studio legale e notarile, which offers legal counseling and represents domestic and international clients before courts mainly in the areas of contract law, private international law, commercial law and company law. In these practice areas, Gilles has long earned experience, which he has acquired working for important Swiss law firms.
The law firm also provides notarial services in the areas of civil, contract and commercial law.
Gilles’ mother tongue is Italian and German; he assists his clients also in English and French.
Dr. Ron Baer is a notary and lawyer in Berlin, Germany. He focuses on notarial matters including wills, estate planning, trusts and lifetime property successions for national and international clients.
He started his career in big law firms in Berlin, Düsseldorf and Frankfurt including a secondment to a bank and several months in a law firm on Curacao and is now serving his clients from Berlin, where he has founded his own law office.
He is co-author in several judicial books on notarial issues and is examiner in the German notarial examination.
Ron speaks German, English and Dutch.