About

Chater Road examines how families and business owners whose affairs cross borders choose jurisdictions, hold assets, and prepare for the generation that inherits them.

The subject is treated as a matter of institutions rather than opportunities. A jurisdiction is not a product and a structure is not a strategy, they are arrangements that someone has to understand, maintain and eventually explain. The review is written for the people who will live with those arrangements for decades, and for the professionals who advise them.

Essays appear under the Chater Road masthead. Guides collect the practical material that recurs across them, and collections gather essays that are better read in sequence.

Editorial position

Chater Road publishes educational information only. Nothing here is legal, tax or investment advice, and reading it creates no professional relationship. The review carries no client information of any kind. Anyone making decisions about their own affairs should take advice qualified in the jurisdictions concerned.

The editor

E. T. Cook is the editor of Chater Road. He is an attorney admitted in the United States and in Hong Kong.