An integral part of the GHSK’s practice is advising clients on the international tax planning considerations of their personal and business transactions. GHSK's attorneys have an in-depth understanding of the tax needs of our high-net-worth clients, and we can assist to minimize exposure to tax during their lives and those of future generations.

GHSK works closely with clients and their closely held entities to create tax-efficient structures for their inbound and outbound investments, while also taking into account any non-tax considerations of importance to them.

In outbound planning we have used double tax treaties to minimize the client’s global effective tax rate, engaged in foreign tax credit planning and created structures to defer tax on income earned outside the United States and repatriate profits efficiently.

In inbound planning we have created structures to hold U.S. real estate or U.S.-source passive income (such as portfolio investments), as well as advised on the consequences of being engaged in a U.S. trade or business, the tax and corporate law implications of different U.S. business entities and the subsequent filing obligations associated with such entities.