Founder and Managing Director Howard Rosen studied law at Oxford University and has been an English solicitor since 1980. He was European corporate counsel for a US multinational before founding his solicitor’s practice in Zug in 1989, and establishing Rosetrust in 1993.

Howard regularly advises on international corporate, asset finance and trust matters, and acts as a protector on several trusts. He is a regular speaker at industry conferences on trusts, leasing, and asset finance, particularly in the transport sector, and frequently takes the chair. He has also written numerous articles on trusts for professional publications.

Howard is regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority in England, and is a member of the Law Society of England and Wales, the International Bar Association, and the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. He is also a member of the Swiss Bar Association and the Bar Association of the Canton of Zug. He is a correspondent of UNIDROIT, a member of the Institute of Directors, London, and past-President and an honorary councillor of the British-Swiss Chamber of Commerce.

He was President of the Council of British Chambers of Commerce in Europe (COBCOE) between 2005 and 2012 and was Chairman of its Public Affairs Commission until 2016. In 2017 he received the COBCOE Chairman’s award for Special Contribution to Business.

In the 2003 Queen’s Birthday Honours, Howard was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to British business in Switzerland.

Howard speaks English, German and French.