Significant wealth brings challenges as well as benefits, so getting the best advice about how to protect and preserve your wealth is vital. As your businesses expand and your family evolves, the advice you need becomes more sophisticated. Our specialist lawyers are here to advise.
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Liz Palmer | Partner, Head of Private Wealth
chambers high net worth 2024Howard Kennedy has shown the ability to get to the bottom of complex issues and comes up with pragmatic strategies to appropriately manage risk. Howard Kennedy is also responsive and collaborative.
Whatever your starting point and however you've generated your wealth, we provide sophisticated, straightforward and clear advice to help you make the right decisions for you and your family.
While our clients are diverse and their lives are unique, the issues they face are not. Our Private Wealth team are experts at helping individuals with more complicated lives and ambitions navigate the ever-changing financial and legal landscape that faces them. We are here for international families who need help moving to the UK or dealing with disputes, and for the family offices that support their lives. We help business owners and senior executives who need commercial advice, as well as artists, authors and the owners of cultural and artistic property, who need specialist legal support.
As an example, you and your family may be planning to move to the UK, and need advice from our immigration team about visas. You may want to acquire a home in the UK, and require conveyancing and tax advice to do so. Before you arrive in the UK, you will want to structure your overseas wealth in a way that will be tax-efficient in the UK. Our lifetime planning team can help you decide how best to do this, possibly using a trust or other wealth holding structure.
Once in the UK, you may encounter employment-related issues, want advice on a pre or post nuptial agreement, or you or members of your family may separate. Over time, you may find your reputation at risk, whether as a result of something on social media or otherwise, or you may find yourself involved in a dispute relating to a family trust or estate. Our Private Wealth lawyers can deal with all of these life events, and more. We can help to make stressful situations easier, allowing you to focus on the things that matter to you.
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No matter your needs, we've got you covered. Below is a selection of services we offer to help keep you moving forward.
Business crime
Business owners and senior executives
Capital markets
Charities and philanthropy
Cohabitation
Corporate real estate
Defamation and reputation management
Dispute resolution
Divorce and separation
Employment
Family and relationships
Family offices
International families
Investment structures and joint ventures
Mergers and acquisitions
Offshore structures, tax and trusts
Pre and post nuptial agreements
Prime residential conveyancing
Private client
Private individual migration
Probate and administration of estates
Real estate dispute resolution
Tax
Trusts and estates disputes
Trusts and inheritance tax planning
Wills and succession planning
Providing succession and IHT advice to the Head of a Family office, with multi-jurisdictional estate planning considerations.
Advising the principal directors and shareholders of an international business about UK domicile, tax residence and family/succession matters.
Coordinating a complex estate administration with valuable assets based in Monaco, Dubai, France and UK with multiple laws and assets restrictions in place.
Preparing a sponsor licence and skilled worker visas for high-net-worth tech entrepreneur.
Working closely with you, we'll find the best way to get you quickly and easily from where you are to where you want to be.
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