PROFESSIONALS
INDIVIDUAL ADVISORY · CAREER LEGAL SUPPORT · CROSS-BORDER
Senior professionals — executives, partners, consultants, and specialists — working across borders face personal legal complexity that combines employment law, immigration, tax, and personal wealth planning simultaneously. WLA's Professionals sector group provides coordinated specialist advice across every dimension.
EVERY LEGAL DIMENSION.
EVERY JURISDICTION.
EXECUTIVE CONTRACT REVIEW
Senior executive employment contract review and negotiation — compensation structures, equity arrangements, restrictive covenants, and termination provisions assessed against every relevant jurisdiction's law.
INTERNATIONAL RELOCATION
Cross-border relocation — employment in the destination jurisdiction, residency and work permit, tax residence planning, and exit from the origin jurisdiction all coordinated simultaneously.
PERSONAL TAX PLANNING
Personal tax planning for internationally mobile professionals — residency determination, treaty analysis, stock option taxation across borders, and year-end cross-border tax planning.
EQUITY & CARRIED INTEREST
Equity incentive and carried interest arrangements — vesting structures, good leaver and bad leaver provisions, and tax-efficient structures across all relevant legal systems.
SENIOR DISPUTES
Senior executive employment disputes — termination, bonus disputes, restrictive covenant enforcement — co-practiced across every relevant jurisdiction simultaneously.
PERSONAL LEGAL INFRASTRUCTURE
Wills, powers of attorney, personal trust structures, and the legal infrastructure every internationally mobile professional needs but rarely has time to put in place.