Boris Berezovsky’s Complicated Estate

Even though Boris Berezovsky, a Russian oligarch, drew up a new will nine days before his death, because his financial affairs are so complicated, it may still take years of litigation to settle them.

Berezovsky named five potential executors to administer his estate and none of the listed individuals wanted to take on the job, so accountants Grant Thornton are now in charge of administering the estate. 

His will names the following individuals as beneficiaries: his daughter, his estranged partner, two private lawyers and a friend.

Sources are divided over whether there is anything in the estate left to divide between remaining companies that may have a potential claim on his estate.

See Tom Harper, Executors for Boris Berezovsky ‘unwilling to oversee estate,’ London Evening Standard, May 8, 2013.