Skip to content
HPT Group
Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong, at night

About HPT Group

An advisory firm for affairs that cross borders.

We work with businesses, founders and families on company formation, trusts and foundations, banking introductions, licensing and residence.

Victoria Harbour and the IFC tower, Hong Kong

The firm

Who we are

We design and implement legal, banking and reporting arrangements for founders, families and operating businesses across 60+ jurisdictions, onshore and offshore.

The firm began in the United Kingdom as Forward Point Solutions. As demand for our cross-border work grew, we moved overseas, and we shortened the name to HPT Group. Our Trustpilot reviews from those years are still listed under the former name.

We do not sell investment products, and we do not work on structures whose purpose is to hide ownership from a bank, a regulator or a tax authority.

Services are provided by HPT Group Limited, Hong Kong, and, where stated, by licensed third-party providers.

The firm in brief

Founded
2023
Headquarters
Hong Kong
Sheung Wan. Meetings by appointment
Office
London
Mayfair. Meetings by appointment
Recognition
Corporate LiveWire Global Awards 2024/25

The team

The people behind the firm

The team and the areas each person works in.

  • Will Hodgson, Managing Director

    Hong Kong

    Will Hodgson

    Managing Director

    Will co-founded HPT Group in 2023 after a career in FX and cross-border payments in Amsterdam and in the City of London. He leads the firm with Gabriel Pincus and advises founders and families on structuring, banking and residence across 60+ jurisdictions. He is also a co-founder of CCYFX.

    Full background

    Will co-founded HPT Group and is its Managing Director, leading the firm alongside Gabriel Pincus. He advises founders, businesses and families on cross-border structuring, banking and residence, and leads the firm's corporate and private client work.

    His background is in foreign exchange and international payments. He began his career in Amsterdam as a market strategist covering emerging market currencies, before moving to the City of London, where he worked in institutional FX sales at Corpay and in client coverage and FX risk management for corporates, funds, trusts and family offices. That grounding in how money moves between jurisdictions, and how banks assess the clients behind it, shapes the firm's approach: structures are designed to be bankable and workable from the first day, not just compliant on paper.

    Since the firm was founded in 2023, HPT Group has formed 400+ companies and structured £2bn+ in client assets, working across 60+ jurisdictions with 45+ banking partners.

    He also co-founded CCYFX, the group's FX and payments business, headquartered in Vancouver, and sits on the board of TaxCredit4U, a US R&D tax credit platform.

    • Cross-border structuring
    • Banking and payments
    • Family office set-up
  • Gabriel Pincus, Managing Director

    New York

    Gabriel Pincus

    Managing Director

    Gabriel co-founded HPT Group in 2023 and oversees its finances and compliance. He began his career at Bear Stearns, then worked at Markit, Deloitte and ACTIVE Network, and holds an MBA from Vanderbilt. He founded GA Pincus Funds, a US Registered Investment Advisor, and leads on US matters.

    Full background

    Gabriel co-founded HPT Group in 2023 and oversees the firm's financial management and compliance framework. He brings over twenty years of experience across institutional finance, investment management, technology and corporate advisory in the United States.

    He began his career on Wall Street at Bear Stearns as an agency trader and registered sales assistant. He then spent nearly three years at Markit, rising from Index Associate to Manager of the US ETF team. After working as a Senior Consultant at Deloitte & Touche in New York, he completed his MBA at Vanderbilt University, concentrating in finance, operations and marketing, with an internship in global e-commerce finance at Kimberly-Clark. He went on to become Product Strategy Manager at ACTIVE Network in Dallas.

    In 2015 Gabriel founded GA Pincus Funds, a Registered Investment Advisor in Tennessee, Texas, New York and Illinois, where he remains President and Portfolio Manager, managing client portfolios through a proprietary algorithmic strategy built on low-cost ETFs. He also leads Advisor Tech, which licenses algorithmic investment and invoicing software to financial advisers and consultants. Through The Financial Investigators, he provides financial due diligence on companies and individuals and helps foreign businesses establish operations in the United States. He is also Head of US Operations for ECOMLT, a direct-to-consumer e-commerce retailer with worldwide sales exceeding $150m.

    Alongside HPT, Gabriel is a co-founder of CCYFX, the group's FX and payments business, and of TaxCredit4U, an R&D tax credit software company. His newest venture is Varsity Wealth, a sports agency focused on financial literacy for athletes. He has previously served on the board of the Dallas Business Club.

    At HPT, Gabriel advises on strategy, governance and compliance, and is the firm's senior point of contact for US matters.

    • Finance and governance
    • Compliance and due diligence
    • US matters
  • Ian Gobin, Legal Counsel

    Guernsey

    Ian Gobin

    Legal Counsel

    Ian is legal counsel to HPT Group. He advises families, individuals and business owners on wealth management, succession planning, tax structuring and global mobility planning. A solicitor of England and Wales and an offshore lawyer, he began his career at Clifford Chance, London, in 1994.

    Full background

    Ian serves as legal counsel to HPT Group. He acts for high-net-worth families, individuals and business owners, overseeing all aspects of complex wealth management, estate and succession planning, including multigenerational strategies for wealth transfer, tax structuring and global migration planning.

    Ian is a practising offshore lawyer and a qualified solicitor of England and Wales. He began his legal career at Clifford Chance in London in 1994, moved to the Cayman Islands in 2001, and has since been a partner at a number of global offshore law firms. He lives in Guernsey, in the Channel Islands.

    • Estate and succession planning
    • Tax structuring
    • Global migration planning
  • Jordan Onraet-Wells, Chartered Tax Adviser

    London

    Jordan Onraet-Wells

    Chartered Tax Adviser

    Jordan leads the firm's UK tax work from London. A Chartered Tax Adviser with over ten years in tax, including seven at a Big Four firm, he advises on UK tax for expats, non-residents and people moving to or from the UK, and on the UK side of cross-border structures for the firm's clients.

    Full background

    Jordan leads HPT Group's UK tax work from London. He is a Chartered Tax Adviser (CTA) and a member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation, with over ten years of tax and accounting experience, including seven formative years at a Big Four professional services firm.

    He specialises in cross-border taxation: UK expats and non-residents, people moving to or from the UK, non-resident landlords, and entrepreneurs and businesses operating across borders. His work covers the Statutory Residence Test, split-year treatment, double taxation relief, capital gains tax on UK property and the UK position in international structures.

    Jordan is also the founder of Horizon UK Tax Solutions. He pairs technical depth with clear advice and fixed fees agreed upfront.

    • UK residence and split-year treatment
    • Expat and non-resident tax
    • Cross-border tax planning
  • Jack Burgess, Chief Operating Officer

    Hong Kong

    Jack Burgess

    Chief Operating Officer

    Jack runs the firm's operations, from engagement set-up to delivery, keeping each matter on time with banks, registries and providers. His background is in sales in Vancouver and business development in financial services, followed by bank onboarding across Asia-Pacific and further afield.

    • Banking onboarding
    • Substance evidencing
    • Project management
  • Yasmina Denikaeva, Head of Marketing

    Hong Kong

    Yasmina Denikaeva

    Head of Marketing

    Yasmina leads the firm's marketing, communications and growth from Hong Kong. She is responsible for our website and published insights, and works with the wider HPT team to explain structures, banking and residence clearly to founders, families and the advisers who refer them to the firm.

    • Marketing and communications
    • Brand and content
    • Growth strategy
  • Suzette Watson, Account Manager

    Hong Kong

    Suzette Watson

    Account Manager

    Suzette looks after client matters day to day from Hong Kong, working alongside a senior adviser on each engagement. She previously worked for a corporate service provider in Dubai, and coordinates documents, onboarding and timelines with the banks, registries and providers on each matter.

    • Client onboarding
    • Document coordination
    • Engagement timelines
  • Anna Groombridge, Executive Assistant

    Hong Kong

    Anna Groombridge

    Executive Assistant

    Anna supports the directors and the wider team from Hong Kong, managing diaries, meetings and correspondence. She coordinates client meetings and documents across the firm's offices and time zones, so that clients and advisers have what they need at every stage, from first call to the end.

    • Diary and meeting management
    • Client correspondence
    • Document coordination
  • Patricia Perotti, IT Support

    Amsterdam

    Patricia Perotti

    IT Support

    Patricia looks after the firm's systems, devices and user access from Amsterdam. She supports the secure handling of client documents across the team, manages access for new joiners, and keeps the tools the firm relies on for client work, communications and record keeping running smoothly.

    • Systems and devices
    • User access and security
    • Secure document handling
Signing a document at a desk

How we engage

One senior adviser, start to finish

The senior adviser you meet first leads the work through to implementation and signs the advice. The engagement letter says what is in scope and what is not.

Fees agreed in writing before work begins. Where a bank or provider pays us for an introduction, we tell you before the introduction is made.

We do not give legal or tax advice in jurisdictions where we are not qualified to do so; where needed, we coordinate local counsel and tax advisers.

A city skyline at night

Next step

Tell us about your matter.

A short application tells us what you need and where. We aim to reply within 48 hours. If we are not the right firm for it, we will tell you.