Family Offices & Funds Structuring
High Net Worth Guide 2024 : USA - Nationwide
Band 2
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Provided by Kirkland & Ellis
By continually finding new and better ways to serve our clients, we’ve established ourselves as the go-to wealth transfer and planning resource for high-net-worth individuals. We are known for our ability to distill sophisticated legal concepts into clear, actionable advice and have pioneered the estate planning practices that lead the industry.
Our Trusts & Estates Practice Group builds innovative, personalized strategies that advance clients’ unique needs and protect their financial legacies. We use the same problem-solving approach to successfully represent public charities and private foundations, and to collaborate across departments with the firm as members of the firm’s interdisciplinary “Private Investment and Family Office Group” on structures involving the formation and integration of family offices in our clients’ overall estate planning strategies.
We work in tandem with clients’ other advisers, such as financial planners, investment advisors, family office managers, accountants and insurance agents, to coordinate our clients’ estate plans with their financial structure.
Chambers Review
Kirkland & Ellis has a premier fund formation practice and an elite private investment and family office group. Its Chicago-based partners handle a wide array of fund formation work for family office clients. Its expertise cuts across investment vehicle structuring, M&A, finance, tax and wealth planning.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Kirkland & Ellis is responsive and focused on delivering the best service possible."
"We picked K&E because they carry a ton of weight: they're very well known, a heavy hitter, and have the prestige we're looking for. We picked them to convey that we were taking the deal seriously."
"Kirkland & Ellis is responsive and focused on delivering the best service possible."
"We picked K&E because they carry a ton of weight: they're very well known, a heavy hitter, and have the prestige we're looking for. We picked them to convey that we were taking the deal seriously."
Notable Practitioners
David Handler is acknowledged as one of the leading trust and estate practitioners nationwide. He has a wealth of experience advising family offices, principals of private equity and venture capital funds, and privately owned enterprises on an impressive range of complex structuring matters.
"David Handler is super smart, very creative and he is a leader in trusts and estates. He is a technician and is a thought leader."
Ryan Harris leads the firm's private investment and family office practice. He represents investment management arms and family offices on M&A and structuring.
"Ryan Harris is an exceptionally strong lawyer with a deep expertise in the family office space."
"Ryan Harris is quite honestly one of the best attorneys I have worked with. He understands all the nuances, knows how to communicate, knows commercial language, and knows how to deliver advice."
Ranked Individuals at
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