Founded in 2014 by Deirdre Morris and Rebecca Lindo, Touchstone Trustees is a leading provider of independent trust services. With a strong focus on building enduring relationships, the company serves private individuals/entities and professional trustees with utmost expertise and integrity. They offer a comprehensive range of stand-alone trustee services, collaborating seamlessly with clients’ advisors and managers to provide objective, impartial and specialised guidance.
With an unwavering commitment to maintaining the highest professional standards, Touchstone Trustees strong understanding of complexities around trusts enables them to deliver informed and reliable trust management. As a trusted partner, Touchstone Trustees guides clients through the intricacies of trust services, ensuring their trust is in capable and safe hands.
Rebecca Lindo LL.B
Rebecca grew up in Christchurch and qualified in law at the University of Canterbury, after which she lived and worked in Guernsey, Channel Islands. There she specialised in the establishment and administration of offshore trusts, companies and asset protection strategies utilising various jurisdictions. During that time she also qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales.
Rebecca then spent nine years in the Bay Area of California where she was a trust specialist in a private bank, dealing with personal family trusts, conservatorships, probates and succession planning.
Rebecca is a full member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) and a registered Trust and Estate Practitioner (TEP).
Deirdre Morris LL.B Hons
Deirdre has wide-ranging experience in providing private client advice in the commercial, trust, tax and property arenas as a former partner and consultant in a commercial law firm in Christchurch and then as an associate of a national specialist trust and taxation firm.
She is an experienced presenter to professional bodies in Australia and New Zealand regarding the use of trusts and commercial and taxation issues. She has extensive background in the public sector managing conflict resolution, prosecutions, and major litigation as senior legal counsel for the Commerce Commission and as chair of various decision making bodies for the Real Estate Agents Authority. She has applied this experience over the last ten years as a principal of Touchstone Trustees and co-trustee of numerous trusts and estates that hold and manage assets both privately and in the business arena.
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