Family Office
Our Family Office is at the heart of our service offering. It is designed to cover everything you would want from your own family office and a lot more. Family office can offer a hub of knowledge, experience and operational capability, which can support the requirements of the family across the whole range of their affairs, from long-term planning to routine transactions and administration.
A specific structure for every family
The service is individually designed around the requirements and preferences of your family. Whilst no two families are alike, the family’s history, size and location, the nature of the principal assets and the aptitudes of senior family members will all be key factors in defining your requirements.
All families have one thing in common: the need to plan the practicalities of passing the baton from one generation to the next and laying the foundations for an enduring legacy. This, perhaps above all, is the common theme which helps define our approach.
Strategic advice and key adviser
Your key adviser is there to act on behalf of the whole family, as required, and to proactively help the family plan for significant decisions which may have a long-term impact.
The key adviser will share the benefits of his or her extensive practical experience of working with other families.
Specialist advice
We routinely work closely with your family’s other trusted advisers. Where necessary, we procure and coordinate specialist advice on behalf of clients, either from our internal experts or from our wide network of professional contacts around the globe.
We identify the need, together with the family, and we select and brief the adviser; we apply the advice given to the totality of the situation and we make clear recommendations to the client.
Succession and governance
We manage the family governance framework to ensure both routine and strategic decisions are consistent with agreed objectives and that they adhere to the agreed decision-making processes.
We support families in the development of their plans for succession. We frequently chair and facilitate family meetings.
Reporting and transaction support
Our Family Office provides a full range of high quality administration services. These ensure everything is correctly processed and documented and that all the necessary information is available in the form you want it - to help make sound decisions on a day-to-day basis.
We run bank accounts, operate companies and trust structures, and manage properties, art collections, aircraft, boats and philanthropic foundations.
We support clients in all transactions, including buying or selling businesses, investments, properties, art or leisure assets.