Grand View Private Trust Co Ltd & ors v Wong & anr [2023] WTLR 149
Wills & Trusts Law Reports | Spring 2023 #190The Global Resource Trust No.1 (the GRT) was created by a declaration of trust dated 10 May 2001. It was accepted that the true economic settlors were two brothers, YC Wang and YT Wang (the founders), who had built a group of companies from the 1950s into one of the largest business conglomerates in Taiwan (FPG Group). They had died in 2008 and 2014 respectively.
Shortly after the GRT was established, Grid Investors Corp, an investment holding company ultimately owned by the founders which held shares in FPG companies, was transferred to the GRT trustee. The value of those shares ...
Lehtimaki v CIFF [2018] WTLR 491
Wills & Trusts Law Reports | Summer 2018 #172The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (UK) (‘CIFF’) was incorporated as a company limited by guarantee without a share capital on 8 February 2002 with the aim of improving the lives of children in developing countries. It had been founded by two of the respondents, Sir Christopher Hohn and his then wife, Jamie Cooper. Each of them, both of whom were members and trustees, had contributed to the charity’s success. The only other member, though not a trustee, was the Appellant. The present litigation had its origins in the breakdown of the relationship between Sir Christopher Hohn and J...