Private Clients
At Avenue Trust Company, we help families, entrepreneurs, and internationally minded individuals protect, grow, and pass on their wealth through thoughtful structuring and trusted relationships.
Since 1952, we've been creating bespoke solutions, from local wealth planning to complex cross-border arrangements for high-net-worth families. Our role is to work alongside you and your advisors to design structures that fit your life today and adapt to tomorrow, wherever in the world you choose to live or invest.
Our services include, but are not limited to:
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Trusts, offering security, flexibility, and continuity for future generations
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Companies, for investment, succession, or entrepreneurial ventures
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Foundations, purpose-driven vehicles for wealth stewardship
We also have deep expertise in emerging, digitally focused structures, helping clients and their advisors understand the opportunities and challenges of on-chain transactions and digital holdings. While ATC is not a licensed virtual asset service provider (VASP), our knowledge and experience mean we can provide informed guidance and structural solutions in this rapidly evolving space.
What sets us apart is our hands-on approach: our in-house corporate entities handle day-to-day administration, so a trusted member of our team is always directly involved, whether acting as directors, secretaries, or trustees. This ensures personal attention, timely decision-making, and the peace of mind that comes from knowing your structure is carefully managed.
At ATC, our goal is simple: to give you the clarity, control, and confidence you need to achieve your wealth objectives in a world that's constantly changing.
Frequently asked questions
How do I know if my situation is complex enough to need a structure?
Most families who benefit from a Guernsey structure share one or more of the following: assets in more than one country, succession plans that span generations, a recent or upcoming liquidity event (business sale, inheritance, IPO), or holdings that are harder to administer directly (operating businesses, intellectual property, digital assets). A first conversation with ATC is usually the quickest way to tell, and there is no cost or obligation to having one. If a structure is not the right answer for the situation, ATC will say so.
What does "bespoke" actually mean in practice?
Every client's structure is designed around the specific objectives discussed at the outset: who the beneficiaries are, what assets are going in, how decisions should be made, what happens on succession. ATC does not use templated trust deeds or off-the-shelf company constitutions. The documents and the administration model are both built for the client, not retrofitted from a standard product. This is slower at the setup stage and faster forever after, because the structure actually reflects how the family operates.
What happens if my circumstances change after the structure is set up?
Most structures ATC administers change over time. Beneficiaries are added, investment mandates are updated, family members relocate, new assets are brought in, old ones are distributed. A well-drafted trust deed or company constitution builds in flexibility from the start, and ATC works with the client and their advisers to make changes formally and correctly rather than informally and problematically. The commitment ATC makes is that when something changes, the response is fast and the process is visible.
How private is my information with ATC?
Client confidentiality is a legal and professional obligation for ATC under Guernsey law, and is taken extremely seriously as a matter of firm culture. Information is shared only with the people the client has authorised (advisers, beneficiaries where appropriate) and with regulators and tax authorities where legally required under international agreements such as FATCA and CRS. ATC does not use client names, case details, or testimonials in marketing materials without explicit permission.
Who will I actually deal with day-to-day?
Every client relationship at ATC is led by a director (Matt Godfrey or Nico Alexandre), supported by a named client services administrator who handles day-to-day work. The administrator is the first point of contact for routine matters and the director is directly involved for anything substantive. This structure exists so that the senior team member who wins the business is also the senior team member who runs it, which is not always the case at larger firms.