Family offices

With the increasing desire for families to establish either their own family office or to be part of a small group of families who decide to administer their assets and financial affairs through a multi-family office, Penningtons Manches Cooper offers expert counsel to both the families and to the family offices that support them.

The Penningtons Manches Cooper private client team has been at the forefront of advising families on their estate and asset protection requirements and acting as a trusted adviser for many years. Whether advice is needed on how to establish or operate a family office or assistance is required to deliver critical independent legal advice for the family client, the family office team at Penningtons Manches Cooper can assist clients throughout the world.

We offer clear, pragmatic advice rooted in our long standing involvement in private client matters and industry expertise and often by our decades of working closely with succeeding generations of families. Indeed, several of our private client partners have ‘grown up’ alongside their family clients having worked with them since their early days as Penningtons Manches Cooper trainees.

By their very nature, the relationships between a specialist family office lawyer and the family are founded on hard-earned trust and confidence in the competence and discretion of the lawyer. The range of advice required can vary widely from tax, wills and probate work to asset protection, financial management and safeguarding the family’s privacy.