Our dedicated private wealth and charities practice comprises of experienced disputes, advisory and transactional lawyers who provide commercial and technical advice in relation to contentious issues, structuring, governance, tax and other advisory matters. Our multicultural, highly-regarded and award winning global practice team has many years of experience advising international clients from across the world.
We regularly advise institutional clients (including banks and trust companies), trustees, their insurers, beneficiaries, family offices and ultra-high net worth individuals, including some of the wealthiest and most high-profile families in Asia, the Middle East and Europe (including the UK).
Our philanthropy client mandates include acting for some of the world’s largest foundations, multinational corporates and major public sector donors in relation to their charitable activities. We also advise a broad range of local, regional and global charities and social enterprises.
Our private wealth and charities team sits predominantly in London, Hong Kong and Melbourne, connecting seamlessly with our other offices in traditional and emerging wealth centres. This includes Moscow, Dubai, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, our mainland China offices and our associated offices in Riyadh and Jakarta. We also have experience of working in most of the major offshore financial centres and have close relationships with law firms operating in those jurisdictions.
Our team includes advisers in matters involving offshore and onshore trusts, estates, charity law and mental capacity issues. When matters are contentious, or have the potential to become contentious, our offering is bolstered by direct and immediate access to our in-house advocacy group which contains KCs with specific insight in this field. We are able to draw upon our market-leading capabilities in other practice areas across the firm (including corporate, regulatory, insolvency, fraud and asset tracing, real estate, jet and yacht acquisition and finance, tax, anti-corruption, funds and asset management) to provide clients with a well-rounded service.
Our private wealth and charities offering is complemented by our ESG practice and market-leading social finance and sustainable investment practice, HSF Kramer Impact. Through HSF Kramer Impact we support founders, investors, asset managers and social finance intermediaries to maximise positive social and environmental impact and realise growth potential.
