Joseph A. Hickey

Hawksford is an international provider of Corporate, Private Client and Fund services, trusted to deliver efficient administration services to private and publicly listed companies, multinationals and SMEs, entrepreneurs and HNW individuals, global banks and intermediaries.

Hawksford’s clients are at the centre of everything it does – helping families to take care of their wealth, entrepreneurs to succeed, multinational companies to operate and transact, and funds to maximise their returns. The business has a global presence with more than 500 professionals in key locations across Europe, Asia-Pacific, Africa and the Americas – enabling Hawksford to provide global solutions to its clients.

Hawksford has been recognised as a Tier 1 trust company in the 2022 eprivateclient Top Trust Companies rankings for the seventh consecutive year. The rankings identify and recognise the best independent and non-independent trust companies in the world, using comprehensive and in-depth analysis on how the firms have fared in the past 12 months.

Joseph, or Joe as he prefers, spent several years working with Big 4 accounting firms before establishing Pearse Trust in the 1980s, a Dublin-headquartered trust and corporate services provider.

In July 2022, Hawksford acquired Pearse Trust and with that, Joe joined the Hawksford group. He has extensive experience in offering corporate administration, legal and taxation advice to clients. He is a regular contributor to conferences and seminars across Europe and the Americas.

Qualifications and memberships:

Barrister at Law at the Honourable Society of Kings Inns, Dublin

Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators

Member of the International Tax Planning Association

Notable achievements:

Joe represented Ireland at senior international level and subsequently held various honorary posts in the Irish Table Tennis Association, including Chairman of the Board and President of the Association.

Areas of expertise:

• Company Law
• Corporate Tax
• Corporate Administration
• Trusts