From founding and growing a business to governance and succession planning, we work with families at all stages of building businesses and holding wealth.
Over time, as a business becomes one of many assets held by a wealthy family, we can advise clients on structuring their wealth through a family office. Family offices offer a co-ordinated and cost-efficient way for families to manage their entire wealth.
Our lawyers work with family offices, or as part of them, to manage family assets and investment portfolios both in the UK and internationally. Drawing on expertise from across the firm, we can advise single family offices and multi-family offices on a wide range of legal services including tax planning, estate planning, wealth structuring, asset protection and disputes.
We pride ourselves on being able to offer a flexible service to meet the needs of any family office model. Our clients range from first generation UK entrepreneurs to established family offices and businesses holding £billions of assets for multi-generational and often international families.
Areas of focus
Our family offices and business expertise includes the following:
- Tax planning and wealth structuring – advising wealthy families in the UK and worldwide on structures for holding their assets.
- Succession – advising families on handing on family businesses and control in family structures to the next generation.
- Growing the business and the family office – employment contracts, share incentives and shareholder and governance arrangements.
- Asset protection – family law advice on divorce, pre and post-nuptial agreements and the effectiveness of asset holding structures.
- Governance – family charters, shareholders agreements and governance structures for wealthy families and multi-generational family businesses.
- Transactional – sales, acquisitions and restructurings of business and personal assets.
- Disputes – resolving corporate and private disputes in an appropriate and proportionate manner.
- Real estate – commercial transactions and high end residential conveyancing and structuring.