Private Client Tax Lawyer, Peter Wells, leaves Kaye Scholer to join Maple Point

Tax Grotto is a little late in reporting this, but Peter Wells has resigned from Kaye Scholer’s New York office, where he was Counsel. In August he joined the financial-services oriented private investment firm, Maple Point LLC, where he is a Director and General Counsel.

Whilst at Kaye Scholer Mr Wells represented US and international clients with respect to wealth planning and preservation. He counselled private clients, family-owned companies and corporate fiduciaries throughout the world in connection with domestic and foreign trust and holding company structures, management succession issues and wealth transfer arrangements. He also focused on family governance matters, such as arranging family or professional management succession and pre-immigration and expatriation planning.