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Working with Family Offices
The number of family offices has grown significantly in recent years. There are now an estimated 12,000–15,000 offices worldwide with assets under management of US$6 trillion.
We understand the dynamics and legal and personal issues that affect families and family offices when managing, protecting, and passing on their wealth. We act for both single and multi-family offices located in key jurisdictions around the world, including:
- London
- The US
- UAE
- Monaco
- Singapore
- Switzerland
- The Channel Islands.
The world is experiencing a turbulent period, with significant shifts in technology, geopolitics, the environment, and civil society, coupled with the risk of a recession.
As a result, many family offices are re-examining the jurisdictions and structures through which they operate, as well as their corporate and family governance and taking steps to future-proof for the next generation.
They need expert legal advice to ensure that their family office and wealth planning are compliant, commercial and risk-managed.
Multi-Family Office Group
We’ve acted for a Guernsey-based group for several years, advising on a broad range of cross-border investment documentation. We’ve also project-managed their foreign legal counsel in key jurisdictions around the world through our dedicated international desks and global network of professional partnerships.
Our dynamic and diverse team of family office lawyers and tax experts work together to offer an integrated service, supporting our clients on a variety of issues, including:
- The creation of family offices
- Tax advice in respect of individuals, corporates, and trusts both onshore and offshore
- Investments
- Acquisition and structuring and private equity
- Cross-border transactions (including project management of multijurisdictional matters)
- Legal disputes
- Succession planning
- Family, matrimonial, divorce and child issues
- Integrating philanthropy into family offices, through co-ordinated and structured corporate governance, and associated social impact investing.
Our clients benefit from our responsive and efficient project management of large multi-jurisdictional transactions. We’re proudly independent and only work with the best professionals in each jurisdiction, enabling us to provide coordinated advice and support so that our clients can focus on what is most important to them.
With a discreet but comprehensive network of contacts, we can connect our family office clients to our substantial and diverse, professional adviser and community eco-system.