What is also ironic is that Skadden grew rich advising corporations on mergers and acquisitions but has avoided the temptation to do any itself.
"You guys are lunch meat now," a friend's rich wife advises both him and her husband.
Stonehage, a firm that advises rich people, says that "non-doms" also pay nearly £3 billion in consumption tax (VAT) and more than £300m a year in tax on property transactions.Fears that wealthy foreigners, taxed more heavily, would flee in droves may be overblown.
They asked the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) - which advises rich nations on tax policy - to examine possible changes to address the problem of multinational companies using transfer pricing rules to shift profits into tax havens.
From 1968 to 2007, Loewenstein managed to reconfigure the Stones into a global brand and one of the world's richest bands, advising them to consider tax advantages when making decisions about recording, rehearsing and performing.
Andrew Young, a lawyer who advises the rich, was very good on the charms of London often missed in dry analyses.
His frustration led Thurman, now age 56, to join several wealthy backers in founding Geneva Global, a for-profit consulting firm that advises the rich and their foundations on where to place their philanthropic bets.
Cameron herself knows the difficulties of protecting one's relationship with art and with creativity from the forces of commerce she's in the strange and knotty position of having gotten rich off of advising people how to be creative without the goal of getting rich in mind.
Citigroup also advises its richest clients on the (investment) merits of up-and-coming painters and offers a select few a conference call with Robert Rubin, a former American treasury secretary, who sits on its board.Such perks have long been enjoyed by the moneyed elite in the West, but are now spreading to Asia.
He liked being rich, and liked advising people about how to achieve that enviable state.
