Private Clients
Our Private Clients Team been advising private individuals for many decades. The firm’s private client practice enjoys a high standing and reputation in the field. We strive to understand the needs of our clients and their families and to tailor our advice accordingly. The individuals we represent include entrepreneurs, professionals, landowners, artists, and philanthropists of all ages. In some cases, we have been acting for families over a number of generations.
Our private client team advises on a wide range of legal topics. Our expertise includes national and international aspects in the following areas:
- Estate planning, estate administration and executorship
- Matrimonial property and inheritance agreements
- Wills and bequests
- In bound and outbound relocation, residence, and nationality
- Foundations, endowments, and trusts
- Separation, divorce and maintenance
- Tax planning (wealth tax, income tax, capital gains tax, gift tax and inheritance tax planning)
- Compliance and structure audits
- Legal wealth planning and structuring
- Powers of attorney, living wills, patient’s directives, contingency planning
- Employment issues
- Charities and art
- Legal family office services
- Corporate matters for family-owned enterprises, M&A transactions
- Insurance issues
- Dispute resolution in the aforementioned areas, in particular domestic and cross-border trust and estate litigation and arbitration
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