I'm Jimmy Sexton. I work one-on-one with ultra-high-net-worth individuals, family offices, and private companies to solve complex international tax and wealth planning challenges. Across borders, across jurisdictions, and across generations.
Most advisors specialize in a single jurisdiction or a single type of structure. When your life, your businesses, and your assets span multiple countries, that's not enough.
I take a different approach. I start with the problem, not the product. Whether it's minimizing a multi-jurisdictional tax exposure, protecting generational wealth, structuring a cross-border transaction, or planning an expatriation, I devise integrated strategies that work across borders because I understand how the pieces connect.
For US international tax matters, arguably the most complex tax system in the world, I do the substantive work myself. For other jurisdictions, I assemble the best specialists in each country, coordinate their advice, and deliver a single, unified strategy you can act on.
One advisor. One point of contact. One person who sees the whole picture.
When you engage Esquire Group, you work directly with me. Not an associate. Not a junior analyst. Not a workgroup. Me.
You get my direct phone number. My WhatsApp. When you call, I know your situation without pulling up a file because I'm the one who designed your strategy and I'm the one managing its implementation.
I keep my client roster intentionally small. I'd rather do exceptional work for a select group of people I genuinely enjoy working with than spread myself thin trying to serve everyone.
My litmus test for taking on a new client is simple: Would I want to have dinner with them? Life is too short to do business with people you don't like or don't get along with. Many of my clients have become close friends. Several are co-investors. That's by design.
"After consulting with a half dozen experts, Jimmy is the one that solved the toughest challenges and helped ensure a successful execution that has already saved me hundreds of thousands of dollars. If I had to do it all over again, the only thing I'd do differently would be to execute much sooner."
I haven't just read about international business. I've lived it. I built Esquire Group into a multinational company and later sold the operating businesses. I expatriated from the United States. I've lived in Dubai since 2015 and work with clients across the Middle East, Europe, the Americas, and Asia.
The strategies I recommend to my clients are the same ones I use to protect my own wealth and accomplish my own estate planning goals. I'm not advising from theory. I'm advising from experience.
That shared experience is what makes the relationship work. I'm a peer to my clients, not a hired gun. I understand what it means to build something, to protect it, and to make sure it endures.
My clients come to me with challenges that don't fit neatly into one category or one country. These are some of the areas where I work:
"We had been advised to structure our US expansion a certain way that was going to result in a lot of tax. Our advisors said, 'this is how it's done.' In our first meeting, Jimmy came up with an alternative structure that is going to save us millions in tax each year. When we showed Jimmy's structure to our advisors, they agreed it would work but never thought to suggest it."
On my podcast, I share what I've learned from two decades of helping high-net-worth clients structure their affairs to minimize taxes and protect their wealth across borders. No snobbery. No BS. Straight talk you won't hear anywhere else.
I'm also a regular contributor to Bloomberg Tax, where I write about international tax and wealth planning developments that affect my clients.
Most of my clients come to me through trusted referrals. If someone in your network suggested we connect, or if you believe we'd be a good fit, I'd welcome a conversation.
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