Our international Private Wealth group has been recognised as a market leader for many years. We are one of the few international law firms able to provide a fully integrated legal service that addresses clients' business, investment and personal interests.

Increasingly we live in the world of the “global citizen” and these individuals are constantly seeking new outlets for their wealth. They also face unique challenges a full-service team like ours is best placed to advise on.

More than 80% of our client base has connections to more than one jurisdiction and as a result a substantial proportion of our advice is cross-border in nature.

Our clients include ultra high net worth individuals and families, family offices, global property investors, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and owners and principals of private equity houses, hedge funds and other financial services companies. We also advise fiduciaries who administer trusts and other asset holding structures for high net worth individuals and their families.

With such wealth comes a multitude of responsibilities and challenges including important and often sensitive topics like evolving family investment strategies, regularly changing tax regimes, global transparency, more sophisticated family governance requirements, disputes, and changing immigration laws, to name but a few.

Our team includes 100 lawyers located across 17 jurisdictions, all of whom are experienced in handling the needs of high net worth individuals.

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Areas of focus

Experience

Fiscal and succession management and structuring of global wealth across 15 jurisdictions

An Eastern European family on the fiscal and succession management and structuring of their global wealth which is situated in 15 jurisdictions and which includes liquid investments, trophy assets (including planes, boats, cars and artwork) and interests in numerous trading businesses.

Nick Warr

Acquisition and proposed redevelopment of St John's Wood Barracks

A high net worth overseas investor on the acquisition and proposed redevelopment of the St John's Wood Barracks site.

Alistair Watson

Emma Tait

Keith Barnett

Sarah Bolton

Elaine Dobson

A wealthy German national on pre-nuptial issues

A wealthy German national who is resident in the UK with a planned marriage to a British national, on the setup of a pre-nuptial agreement in accordance with English and German law. The individuals' main family assets were located in Germany at the time of the pre-nuptial agreement.

New build projects for some of the largest superyachts in the world

Acted on various new build projects for superyachts including, MY Eclipse, MY A, MY Mayan Queen IV, MY Eco, MY Lady Moura, MY Golden Odyssey and MY Triple Seven.

Multijurisdictional tax and succession planning exercise

Advised on a multi-jurisdictional tax and succession planning exercise, involving trust interests and personal real estate, art, valuable chattels and business interests in Switzerland, the UK, Monaco, the US, the West Indies, Cyprus and Lebanon.

Complex international inheritance dispute

The estate of a prominent German family member on on a complex international inheritance dispute between the second wife and the children of the first marriage.

Martin Kraus

Resources

The family office guide

Family offices are one of the fastest growing investment vehicles due to the high value of assets they administer. As high net worth families seek to exercise greater control over their wealth creation, so increases the number of family offices being set up internationally. Our family office guide will provide you with a comprehensive introduction to the legal issues you need to be aware of when establishing a family office in the UK.

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World Shaping Wealth: the impact of affluence on the next economy

In our in-depth international study we explore the impact that UHNW individuals want to have in the future. We look at what's motivating them, how they plan to achieve their goals and the challenges they must tackle to protect and use their wealth for the benefit of all.

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