John Bender

John Bender joined the board of Bender Brothers & Co in 2008 and has been a partner since 2012 with responsibility for both non-contentious and contentious private client matters. He is a Law.com and Spear's 500 ranked practitioner specialising in wealth and corporate structuring, succession planning, trust protectorships, dispute resolution, residency and relocation. He is a member of the firm's investment committee, which focuses on both alternative and traditional asset classes. As many of the company's clients are American or UK resident non-domiciled entrepreneurs, he is accustomed to managing substantial cross-border legal projects with a high level of complexity. Mr Bender leads a board of eminent jurists as director-general of the International Trust Arbitration Organisation and has set up a number of litigation teams for substantial cross-border dynastic and fiduciary disputes. He is a consultant to a family-owned international trust company headquartered in Liechtenstein, where he is resident. Between 1988 and 2001, Mr Bender specialised in Asian equity markets at Morgan Stanley, Barings and HSBC.

Mr Bender is chairman of CANZUK International, an organisation advocating closer ties amongst the Commonwealth realms. He was special adviser to The Prince of Wales's charities office between 2004 and 2014 and councillor of The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea between 1990 and 1994. Having been educated at Eton and Harvard, he obtained a Post Graduate Diploma in Law in 2003 and the STEP Diploma in International Trust Management in 2011. He speaks French, German, Spanish and Swedish.