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Offshore trust jurisdictions we cover

Choose where your trust should sit: pick a place to see where we can help and read its guide where one is published, or compare several side by side.

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At a glance

  • 40

    Places we cover

  • 4

    Regions

  • 3

    Ways we deliver a trust

    1 direct, 21 with a partner, 18 partner as trustee

  • 40

    Place guides published

40 jurisdictions

Where we can help with offshore trusts

An offshore trust is governed by the law of a place other than your home country. One Pacific Trust covers 40 such places across 4 regions; all of them are open for new trusts. Guides are published place by place; 40 are live today. Pick one to read its guide, or compare a few.

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Where we can help with a trust: forty places on a world mapHong KongSingaporeCook IslandsNew ZealandLabuan (Malaysia)SamoaVanuatuMarshall IslandsBVICayman IslandsNevisPanamaBermudaSouth Dakota (USA)Nevada (USA)Delaware (USA)Wyoming (USA)Alaska (USA)New Hampshire (USA)Tennessee (USA)BahamasBelizeAnguillaBarbadosTurks and CaicosSt KittsSt Vincent and the GrenadinesJerseyGuernseySwitzerlandIsle of ManLiechtensteinCyprusMaltaLuxembourgNetherlandsGibraltarUAE (DIFC, ADGM)MauritiusSeychellesHong KongRarotonga
  • Asia Pacific8
  • Americas and Caribbean19
  • Europe10
  • Middle East and Africa3
Forty places where we can help with a trust, grouped by region

Asia Pacific

Americas and Caribbean

Europe

Middle East and Africa

Three ways we deliver a trust

In every place we work in one of three ways.

We act as trustee ourselves, or we work with a local partner who takes a defined role, or a local partner acts as trustee while we coordinate the service for you. The guide for each place says which one applies there.

Three ways we deliver a trustWe act as trustee directly. YouOne Pacific Trusttrustee1 placeWe work with a local partner. YouOne Pacific TrustLocal partnersupport21 placesA local partner acts as trustee. YouOne Pacific TrustcoordinationLocal partnertrustee18 places
The three ways we deliver a trust, with the places in each group counted from the catalogue
  • Hong Kong
  • Singapore
  • BVI
  • Jersey
  • Cook Islands
  • Nevis
  • Panama

How to choose: asset protection, succession or holding

Asset protection: how the law treats claims against trust assets and foreign judgments. Your lawyer tests this for your case. Cook Islands law

Succession: how long a trust may last and how the law treats home-country forced heirship. Hong Kong law

Holding: whether you can keep investment powers and how a holding company sits under the trust.

The best asset protection jurisdictions for one family can be wrong for another, so weigh where beneficiaries and assets sit, which law your lawyer knows, and whether you want an offshore trustee.

Trustee rules and reporting differ by place, so each guide sets out the law, the set-up steps and how we work there, with sources. Shortlist two or three, then ask us for a quote.

Goal by what to ask
TopicWhat the law coversWho checks itPage to read
Asset protectionHow the law treats claims against trust assets and foreign judgmentsYour lawyer tests this for your caseCook Islands: law and features
SuccessionHow long a trust may last and how the law treats home-country forced heirshipYour lawyer confirms it for your family and your home countryHong Kong: law and features
HoldingWhether you can keep investment powers and how a holding company sits under the trustYour lawyer and your tax adviser confirm how the structure sits for youThe law and features page of each place you shortlist
Sources: Cook Islands asset protection trust: key features and rules (read 2026-11-05); Hong Kong trust law and key features (read 2026-11-05)

Two guides to start with

These two places have a full set of guides: the law, the set-up steps, tax and reporting, costs and the questions people ask.

Victoria Harbour and the Hong Kong skyline seen from the water at dusk

Hong Kong

Governing law
Common law and the Trustee Ordinance (Cap. 29) Trustee Ordinance (Cap. 29), Hong Kong e-Legislation
Perpetuity period
Settlors may set up perpetual trusts from 1 December 2013 Hong Kong Government press release: Trust Law (Amendment) Ordinance 2013 gazetted (26 July 2013)
Foreign law rules
The government said home-country forced heirship rules are not meant to influence how trust assets are allocated Hong Kong Government press release: Trust Law (Amendment) Ordinance 2013 gazetted (26 July 2013)
A green volcanic peak rising behind a calm turquoise lagoon in the Cook Islands

Cook Islands

Trust structure
Registered; non-resident beneficiaries; listed company as trustee or power holder Act No. 14 of 1984, section 2 (FSC copy)
Governing law
International Trusts Act 1984 (No. 14), as later amended Act No. 14 of 1984 (FSC copy)
Asset protection rule
1989 Act: bankruptcy (13A), fraud (13B), foreign judgments (13D), spendthrift (13F) International Trusts Amendment Act 1989 (No. 23), FSC copy

What an offshore trust company does for you

A trust company acting as trustee holds legal title to the trust assets under the deed, keeps records and minutes, and runs identity checks and reporting. It does not replace your lawyer or your advisers.

The guide for each place says who may act as trustee there and how we work in that place. Every place is open for new trusts; ask us on a call if you want to talk it through.

Swipe sideways to see the whole diagram.

Basic discretionary trustA settlor transfers assets to a trustee, who holds them for the beneficiaries under a trust deed.SettlorTrusteeBeneficiariesTrust assetstransfersassetsunder atrust deedholds anddistributesholds legaltitle
  1. SettlorSets up the structure and transfers assets into it
  2. transfers assets under a trust deedTrusteeHolds the assets and manages them under the trust deed
  3. holds and distributesBeneficiariesPeople who benefit from the trust under its terms
  4. Trustee holds legal titleTrust assetsThe property held in the structure
Roles and notes
In a basic trust the settlor puts assets under a deed, the trustee holds them, and the beneficiaries benefit
Part of the structureWhat it does
SettlorSets up the structure and transfers assets into it
TrusteeHolds the assets and manages them under the trust deed
BeneficiariesPeople who benefit from the trust under its terms
Trust assetsThe property held in the structure

In a basic trust the settlor puts assets under a deed, the trustee holds them, and the beneficiaries benefit

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