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 nearly 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
Switzerland
Singapore
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.

Our dynamic and diverse team of family office lawyers and tax experts work together to offer integrated advice and support on a variety of issues including:

The creation of family offices
Tax advice in respect of individuals, corporates and trusts onshore and offshore
Investment - acquisition and structuring and private equity
Cross-border transactions (including project management of multi-jurisdictional matters)
Succession planning
Family, matrimonial, divorce and child issues
Legal disputes
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 book of contacts, we are able to connect our family office clients to our substantial and diverse client, professional adviser and community eco-system.

Working With Us

We’ll help you protect your family office from commercial and personal risk and plan for the safe passing of your wealth to future generations. Our expertise and recent experience includes helping clients with:

Establishing new family offices - including identifying suitable jurisdictions in which to base them and structuring their ownership for privacy and tax-efficiency
Working closely with the management team of existing family offices - including advising on day-to-day issues such as commercial contracts and employment matters.
Corporate matters - including designing and setting up corporate holding structures, undertaking due diligence, restructuring, acquisitions and investments. Advising on and project managing complex, multi-jurisdictional transactions.
Succession planning - including reviewing existing structures, creating new complex trusts and foundations for asset protection and wealth preservation and preparing Sharia-compliant UK wills.
Coordination of investment funds, investment of assets and private equity – including undertaking comprehensive due diligence on the target entity, drafting and negotiating the transaction documentation and providing on-going advice and support.
Complex UK and cross-border tax advice – including advice on relocation of family members to different jurisdictions and the effect on asset-holding structures, taxation of trusts and foundations and tax-efficient investment in UK real estate.
Regulatory and tax compliance – including annual UK income tax returns, IHT returns, ATED returns, and HMRC disclosures.
Changes to the family - including prenuptial agreements and divorce.
UK immigration and British citizenship – for EU and non-EU citizens
Incentivising family office staff to assist with retention - including EMI options schemes and bonus schemes.
Acquisition, financing and ownership structures for commercial and residential property
Establishing charities and other philanthropic structures
Resolving commercial and personal legal disputes.

Our trusted global network in over 200 jurisdictions means we can support international family offices anywhere in the world.

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