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2026
Jonathan L.M. Shaw
Professional Biography
Jonathan L.M. Shaw has extensive experience as a barrister, having been called to the English Bar (Gray’s Inn) when he was 25. He began his legal career in commercial and corporate litigation, liquidations, and banking transactions in Birmingham Chambers. In 1986, he relocated to Hong Kong, where he commenced private practice at the Hong Kong Bar after a period in the Attorney General’s Chambers, successfully prosecuting complex commercial crime, including Hong Kong’s largest ever Letter of Credit fraud.
His private practice focused on corporate and commercial law, with a strong emphasis on international tax, trusts, and succession planning for HNWIs and ULTRAs. In 1997, he founded Corporate & Chancery Group Limited, now a leading trust company in Mauritius, where he has served as Executive Director and Principal since 1998. In 2020, Jonathan and his trust company were appointed by Credit Suisse to open, manage, and administer their trust operations in Mauritius, which, together with his team, they did successfully for over 20 years.
Specialty
Since 1998, Jonathan L.M. Shaw has specialised in cross-border tax planning, asset protection, and succession for HNWIs and ULTRAs, using special purpose vehicles and multiple offshore jurisdictions. In particular, Jonathan has drafted and created a special structure which makes clients effectively ‘invisible’ and unreportable anywhere in the world, perfectly legitimately. This structure is used by all of his offshore ULTRA clients, especially with regard to their cross-border transactions where they wish to maintain a low profile.
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Education
Jonathan L.M. Shaw is a postgraduate of London University, where he achieved Merit and Distinction (‘informal’) in his International Tax Masters.
About Corporate & Chancery Group Limited
Corporate & Chancery Group Limited, Mauritius, is a specialist, boutique firm of professionals (barristers and accountants) which provides discreet, cutting-edge tax planning and cross-border structuring advice, mostly to high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth individuals. Although based in South East Asia, in Hong Kong, the advice proffered is truly international, covering East Asia & China, Western and Eastern Europe, India, Africa, the Middle East, and South America.
The intellectual technology and techniques behind the company have a proven track record (see: ‘chancerygroup.net’), and the company specializes in special purpose vehicles which (a) protect the client from unwelcome intrusions by third parties, (b) protect the assets from outside attack, (c) enable a succession plan to be materialized without any adverse tax consequences, (d) enable the client to remain private within the structure.
The above is achieved without the use of trusts, which the advisers (who are specialist trust lawyers) consider to be ‘old hat’ in today’s trust-hostile environment.
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