Soteria Trust - Your Tax Planning and Asset Protection Specialist

Protecting Your Wealth, Preserving Your Legacy
At Soteria Trusts, we specialize in helping you secure your financial future. Through tailored strategies such as trusts, international retirement plans, and expert tax advice, we help you navigate taxes, shield your assets, and confidently pass your wealth to future generations.

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Soteria Trusts Tax Planning and Asset Protection Specialist

Soteria Trusts is a trust and fiduciary division of the Business Class Group. We help you manage, grow, and protect your assets via a versatile range of Trusts, International Retirement Solutions, and Tax Advisory Services. Our solutions include a range of discretionary and bare trusts, each set up to help create wealth, protect personal and business assets, provide tax-efficient income at retirement, and create a robust legacy plan for future generations.

Is Your Wealth Protected?

Don’t leave your financial future to chance. At Soteria Trusts, we help you take control of your wealth, protect your estate, and achieve lasting peace of mind. Whether you’re an expat managing UK assets or a Hong Kong resident concerned about inheritance taxes, our team is here to provide the guidance you need.

How Soteria Trusts Can Help?

  • Minimise Your Tax Burden
    Our expertise in cross-border planning helps you identify opportunities to reduce taxes, ensuring you keep more of your hard-earned wealth.
  • Shield Your Estate from UK Taxes
    Estate planning is at the heart of our work. We provide strategies to strategically plan and structure your wealth, giving you peace of mind that your legacy will be preserved.
  • Personalised Wealth Management Solutions
    At Soteria Trusts, one size doesn’t fit all. Our services are fully tailored to meet UK expats and the unique needs of Hong Kong residents who have UK ties.
  • Comprehensive Cross-Border Guidance
    Whether managing assets abroad, planning for retirement, or navigating complex tax systems, we’re here to guide you every step of the way.

Our Services

We offer a versatile range of services designed to fit your unique financial landscape, including:

  • Trusts: Trusts can be powerful tools for wealth and asset management. They can protect assets, mitigate certain taxes, and ensure wealth is passed on to designated loved ones. Investment strategies and wealth management tactics can also help grow assets within Trusts.
  • International Retirement Solutions: Plan for the future you deserve, no matter where life takes you. We specialise in international strategies that align with your tax-minimisation goals.
  • Expat Tax Advice: Navigate complex tax regulations easily through our specialised advisory services and ensure compliance with UK and international standards.
  • Comprehensive Asset Protection: Safeguard your business and assets from uncertainty while maximising growth opportunities.

We take pride in offering more than just expert advice. At Soteria Trusts, we take the time to fully understand your goals and deliver personalised solutions with clarity and care. Our commitment to professionalism, innovation, and exceptional service makes us a trusted partner in helping you succeed financially.

Tax jurisdictions

Soteria Trusts offer solutions established in or from highly regulated jurisdictions that are internationally recognised and known for their lower tax rates. Moving your pension and other assets to these jurisdictions can be especially useful for those whose country of residence has a double taxation treaty in place. This list shows the main countries that we utilise when structuring your double taxation solutions:

Gibraltar

Hong Kong

The Isle of Man

Guernsey

Malta

 

Meet the team

Mark Kirkham

Mark brings 35 years of experience in financial planning and fiduciary services. He began his career in the UK in 1990, advancing from sales to leadership roles while expanding his knowledge and expertise internationally across continental Europe before settling in Hong Kong in 2003. As the creator of Soteria Trusts, he is committed to delivering quality advice and innovative solutions with the highest possible standards and always prioritises the financial well-being of the firm's clients. Mark is known as a straight talker with a depth of industry knowledge and experience rarely seen these days those traits coupled with his ethics and appetite for doing the right thing, have seen him elected to various industry committees and think tanks, as well as appointed to the General Committee of an HK SRO before the formation of the current regulatory regime.


   

Vianney Bernard

I am an experienced wealth manager and financial planner specializing in assisting clients worldwide in defining their financial goals and achieving them.

With a French Master's in Wealth Management and a Bachelor’s in Business Administration, I have both the technical ability and experience to help expatriate families, and individuals formulate and execute a robust financial plan that ensures their financial security.


   

Matthew Dorrell

I have joined Soteria Trusts after 20 years in the recruitment industry in Hong Kong. Having partnered with Soteria during my time in recruitment, I have first-hand experience of the benefits that these unique services can offer and the feedback from clients and candidates has always been excellent.

At Soteria, I specialise in tax and estate planning, with a focus on the UK property market.


   

Paul Dickinson

I am a Wealth Manager with over 19 years of investment and relationship management experience. I specialize in advising clients within the scope of Business Planning, Asset Protection, Estate & Succession Planning, Investment Strategies, and Retirement Planning.

I hold a Certificate in Investment Management through the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment, of which I am a Chartered Member. Through the CISI, I am regularly updated on changing market dynamics, products and regulations and complete the annual CPD requirements to remain a member.


   

Lee Stevens

With over 30 years of experience in finance and property, I began my career at HSBC Bank in the UK, advising on tax-efficient assets and structuring. My international career started in 2001 with a move to Hong Kong, where I continued to use my knowledge with HNW expatriate clients.

In 2015, I moved to Thailand and now serve HNW Thais and expatriate clients. My areas of expertise include international property investments, tax and estate planning, including Will writing. I like to use HMRC-approved pension schemes and trust structures to increase wealth and minimise tax for clients.


   

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