Tom Wesel LLB, LLM (Tax) General Information Tom specialises in tax aspects of corporate finance, structuring of UK inbound and outbound investment, the establishment of offshore wealth funds, tax-efficient structuring and preservation of private family wealth, for UK- and non-UK domiciled residents, and taxation of intellectual property. His experience includes both advisory and academic work. He has done much cross-border work, which ties in with his international tax teaching. He has considerable experience advising HNWIs and has good connections to the Chinese HNWI market. After graduating in law from London School of Economics and pupillage at Enterprise Chambers, 9 Old Square, Tom won an EU-wide competition to work as a lawyer-linguist for the Court of Justice of the European Union before joining the law faculty of King’s College London in 2005. For 10 years, he was a full-time member of staff, variously as head of tax law and head of the MA degree in taxation at King’s. During this time, he was also an examiner in international tax for the Chartered Institute of Taxation and became a member of the tax faculty of the ICAEW. Tom has been in practice since 2007, initially working as a consultant for JAG Capital Advisors on the taxation of private equity and corporate finance. He joined the boutique firm M Law in 2013 for its wide-ranging mixture of intellectual property law, corporate finance and private wealth advisory work. Since 2018 he has also been a consultant to EIK, a London firm specialised in advising Chinese HNWIs. Areas of law Tax Tax Tax aspects of corporate finance Structuring of UK inbound and outbound investment Establishment of offshore wealth funds Tax-efficient structuring and preservation of private family wealth, for UK- and non-UK domiciled residents Taxation of intellectual property Appointments Part-time lecturer at King’s College, London on its Masters degree in taxation, lecturing in international and EU tax law Education LLB, London School of Economics LLM (Tax), Queen Mary College, University of London Languages German (bilingual) French (fluent) Italian (conversational)