Private Wealth Law
High Net Worth Guide 2024 : New Zealand
Band 2
Email address
[email protected]Contact number
+64 9 379 7333About
Provided by Martelli McKegg
Services include:
- Drafting Wills, Enduring Powers of Attorney, and Advance Medical Directives to ensure clients’ wishes are respected and legally sound
- Establishing trusts, including family trusts, foreign trusts, charitable trusts, and trading trusts, designed to protect assets and achieve specific financial goals
- Providing independent professional trustee services, offering expertise and impartial oversight to manage trust assets effectively
- Ongoing trust administration, ensuring compliance with legal obligations and the proper distribution of assets
- Reviewing, varying, resettling, and administering bespoke trust structures, adapting to changing circumstances or objectives
- Advising executors, trustees, and beneficiaries on their rights and responsibilities, helping them navigate complex duties and obligations
- Providing expert advice on Occupation Right Agreements, ensuring proper planning for retirement living arrangements
- Assisting with business and family succession planning, asset structuring, and restructuring to ensure the smooth transfer of wealth and ownership
- Offering guidance in situations where someone has been deemed mentally incapable of managing their affairs, helping families make critical decisions
- Trust and Estate disputes
Chambers Review
Martelli McKegg advises wealthy clients on trust and estate planning. Its trust and estate practice also includes litigation work and covers both family and commercial matters.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Martelli McKegg is a leading New Zealand firm dealing with the law of trusts."
"Martelli McKegg is a leading New Zealand firm dealing with the law of trusts."
Notable Practitioners
Catherine Atchison is a consultant on trust and estate matters. Her practice also includes charitable trust matters. She works with high net worth individuals and families.
"Catherine is a very experienced lawyer."
Emma Foster brings a comprehensive approach to assisting clients with managing and structuring their private wealth. She assists high net worth families and individuals on creating trust structures, estate administration matters, and also litigation related to estates and wills.
"Emma Foster is very efficient."
"She is really good."
Timothy Orr provides trust and estate administration advice and represents clients in trust litigation.
"Timothy Orr is a young guy with a nice manner and is technically capable. He's good to work with on the other side."