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Salient PCS Ltd, a London-based boutique consulting firm which was set up 14 years ago, is your trusted advisor in international business transactions, commercial and corporate matters. Our team brings a wealth of experience from various industries, giving us a unique perspective in serving business owners, international investors, trustees, HNW families and family offices across different jurisdictions. We offer legal project management services encompassing corporate matters, litigation, complex family law, probate, and tax issues. Our extensive network of associated consultants and solicitors ensures that we assemble the best expertise for your projects. Our team is equipped to navigate complex legal matters with tailored solutions, making us stand out in the private client consulting landscape. Contact us today to discuss how we can help you.

Our team

Maria Babenko

Managing Partner

Practice Areas

  • Corporate & General Commercial
  • Private Equity
  • Project Finance
  • Wealth Structuring and Family Offices
  • Luxury Assets Acquisition and Finance
  • Probate and Will
  • Pre-Nuptial and Post-Nuptial Agreements
  • Charities Registration

 

Bar Admissions

  • England and Wales

Maria is a solicitor with over 20 years of legal experience. Maria has worked in private practice for a number of domestic and international law firms, including Dentons, as well as in-house for Deloitte and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. 

She has advised clients in a variety of industries including oil and gas, metals and mining, real estate, banking, telecommunications, high tech, agricultural business and transport, design and architecture. During the past 14 years of her career she has also developed an in-depth expertise in private client related work. 

Maria knows and understands the challenges of setting up and developing a new business, as well as operational side of various business ventures. She is assisting start up companies not only in her capacity as a legal adviser but also as a business development consultant. 

Her private wealth practice involves assisting on complex probate matters including UK and foreign domiciliary estates, trusts, drafting UK Wills and lasting powers of attorney. 

Maria has been repeatedly recommended for the last 4 years as a leading lawyer working in private client practice by Citywealth Leaders List. She is a regular speaker at Private Wealth and Private Investor conferences and round-table seminars organised by Campden Wealth and Adam Smith Conferences. 

Maria is also a consultant of RS Legal Strategy Ltd which is a Queen’s Counsel-led business crime, fraud and legal strategy firm in London. Her most recent experience included assisting RS Legal team on Unexplained Wealth Order related matter. 

Maria is a graduate of the BBP Law School and holds a Master Decree in International Finance Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Siân Blore

Family Law Consultant

Services

  • Divorce and Civil Partnership Dissolution
  • Financial Settlements
  • Resolving Issues Relating to Children
  • Unmarried Couples and Cohabitation Issues
  • Pre-Nuptial and Post-Nuptial Agreements
  • Separation Agreements
  • Variation and Enforcement

 

Bar Admissions

  • England and Wales

Siân was a partner in one of the country’s leading family law firms, Farrer & Co and has over 30 years’ experience in family law and specialises in all aspects of financial settlements, including complex, high-net-worth often involving international matters. She will take complete care of your case, keeping you updated on progress and, if necessary, working with other financial experts to ensure international all property and assets are fully disclosed and included in the final settlement.

Siân is highly experienced, empathetic, and determined when it comes to protecting the interests of our clients and their children. She will take the time to listen to what you feel you need to move forward post-divorce and work meticulously to achieve what you want in a non-confrontational manner. Our  clients value her calm and reassuring confidence and her ability to achieve civilised outcomes wherever possible. 

Siân is regularly instructed in high-value divorce cases involving significant businesses, inherited wealth, trust structures, landed estates and international enforcement issues. She regularly advises in cases involving international aspects and multiple jurisdictions.

Sarah is a highly skilled and effective litigator but is also committed to achieving solutions outside of the court setting where appropriate and possible. 

Anthony O’Connor

Associate Partner

Practice Areas

  • Risk Management
  • Oversight & Governance
  • Trusts
  • Family Offices – design, set up, operation
  • Wealth Structure Audit – review of existing family offices and legal structures;
  • Wealth Structure Coordination
  • Acquisition of Non-Financial Assets

Anthony has a twenty years track record as a trusted advisor to the boards of international businesses and to high net worth international families. He has particular expertise in risk management and risk financing, along with extensive experience in the oversight and governance of international legal structures. He is adept at bringing experience from the commercial sector to bear in complex private client situations – for example in the identification, restructuring and liquidation of different types of asset when required; in the oversight and management of legal structures across jurisdictions; or in the use of innovative insurance / risk financing solutions and structures to support clients’ wealth preservation priorities.

In the private client world, Anthony previously founded and led a firm specialised in the implementation, management and oversight of international legal structures and family offices. The firm had clients from jurisdictions including France, Switzerland, Monaco, Bermuda, Ireland and Kazakhstan. He has considerable “hands on” experience overseeing various types of offshore entity, including private trust companies, private protector companies, captive insurance vehicles and offshore investment platforms. He is also an expert in the management and optimisation of family offices, having acted as Interim Chief Executive of a large, dedicated family office and having been engaged to undertake detailed reviews of other large family offices and the activities of trustees.

His commercial experience includes playing a key role in the high profile wind down of the Arthur Andersen global professional services group. As a key commercial advisor to the firm’s leadership his areas of responsibility included litigation coordination across more than 80 jurisdictions, international insurance structures and the unravelling of a complex entity structure.

He also acted as COO of a large Bermuda captive insurer with billions of dollars of liabilities; executing the strategy that took it from insolvency to eventual liquidation with a substantial surplus within a decade. Other work in the risk / insurance sector has included designing innovative new solutions focused on using risk structures to remove inhibitors to value creation in areas including clean energy.

In addition to his advisory and representative work for Salient, Anthony looks after his family’s business interests. These include the pioneering drinks company Cut Classics and a portfolio of commercial and residential property owned by different family members.

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