What is a family office?
A family office is designed to manage and support a family with significant wealth. It aims to look after their financial and personal interests and ensure the effective transfer of assets for the benefit of future generations.
No two family offices are the same. They will be carefully tailored to the specific needs of the family and can vary in size, scope, budget and objectives. However, they will all have one thing in common: protecting the family legacy.
At Kingsley Napley, we are adept at looking after wealthy individuals and their families in a professional yet sensitive manner drawing from the legal expertise across our different teams, from crypto assets to charity law. Our modern outlook and reputation for being innovative, creative and sensitive, combined with over 80 years of the highest quality legal advice across all teams, sets our offering apart and allows us to provide our family office clients support in all aspects of their lives. We can provide clients with a full spectrum of legal, commercial and practical support under one roof and make introductions and coordinate external advice on our clients’ behalf: namely international and/or investment advice as and when required. Whether you already have advisory support in place and require a uniquely full service of leading legal teams to complement this or you have only recently acquired significant wealth and are at the beginning of your journey, Kingsley Napley can work with you at every stage.
Do I need a family office?
If you have, or are due to inherit, significant wealth and would like to ensure it is organised and protected effectively, then Kingsley Napley can support you to:
- Create an appropriate succession plan and family constitution
- Ensure a seamless transition of your wealth
- Comply with your tax obligations
- Establish clear governance structures over your companies
- Look after your personal affairs
- Establish a philanthropic purpose
We can also help support our clients with:
- Crisis management
- Divorce, prenups and blended families
- Dispute resolution
- Family business
- Family health and wellbeing
- Family investment companies
- Family relocations
- Financial affairs and crisis management
- Generational wealth transfer
- Governance
- Impact and philanthropy
- Investments
- International protection
- Longevity and resilience
- Managing family conflict
- Next generation engagement
- Reputation and privacy protection
- Purchasing, managing and disposal of assets from business to real estate and other luxury assets
- Wealth growth and preservation
International expertise
We have dealt with international divorce and children cases including the following jurisdictions. We have strong relationships with lawyers in these jurisdictions and in the family team, we have a number of foreign language speakers.
Antigua, Austria, Bermuda, Belgium, BVI, Canada, Caribbean, Cayman, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Jersey, Guernsey, Hong Kong, Italy, India, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Russia, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, UAE, USA.
James Ward
Private Client
Partner and Head of Department
Ryan Mowat
Dispute Resolution
Partner
Anthony Macpherson
Corporate, Commercial & Finance
Real Estate Finance
Partner and Head of Department
Glafkos Tombolis
Corporate, Commercial & Finance
Mergers and Acquisitions: Buying Another Business
Partner
Rebecca Niblock
Criminal Litigation
Extradition and INTERPOL
White Collar and Financial Crime
Partner
David Sleight
Criminal Litigation
Partner
Ed Smyth
Criminal Litigation
Criminal Defence and Police Investigations
Proceeds of Crime and Money Laundering
Partner
Sophie Wood
Criminal Litigation
White collar crime
Proceeds of Crime and Money Laundering
Partner
Melanie Hart
Dispute Resolution
Partner
Helen Morris
Dispute Resolution
Partner
Katherine Pymont
Dispute Resolution
Partner
Waqar Shah
Dispute Resolution
Partner
Will MacFarlane (Français)
Family and Divorce
Partner
Katie Newbury
Immigration
Partner
Nicolas Rollason (Français)
Immigration
Partner and Head of Department
Nicolas Rollason
Immigration
Partner and Head of Department
Paul Davidoff
Private Client
Partner
Jemma Garside
Private Client
Court of Protection and Deputyship
Partner
Stephanie Mooney
Private Client
Partner
Charles Richardson
Private Client
Partner
Bethan Owen
Real Estate
Partner and Head of Department
Vanessa Rhodes
Real Estate
Partner
Emer Hughes
Corporate, Commercial & Finance
Startup Investments
Legal Director
Laura Phillips TEP
Dispute Resolution
Legal Director
Alexandra Bishop
Family and Divorce
Legal Director
Sophie Mass
Dispute Resolution
Senior Associate
Mark McWilliams
Employment
Senior Associate
Cate Maguire
Family and Divorce
Senior Associate
Sameena Munir
Private Client
Senior Associate
Diva Shah
Private Client
Succession planning
Probate and Estate Administration
Senior Associate
Rachel Redwood
Real Estate & Construction
Senior Associate
Katie Sheikh
Real Estate & Construction
Senior Associate
Luke Gregory
Corporate, Commercial & Finance
Restructuring and Insolvency
Associate
Jessica Cattrall
Dispute Resolution
Associate
Josephine Burnett
Immigration
Associate
Laura Harper
Private Client
Tax Law and HMRC
Consultant
Melissa Joseph
Private Client
Associate
Gemma Mallett
Real Estate & Construction
Associate
Jessica Rice
Real Estate & Construction
Associate
