Family Offices & Funds Structuring | High Net Worth

National private wealth powerhouse McDermott Will & Emery has a distinguished practice with experts dedicated to complex family office formation and restructuring, compensation structuring and partnership tax issues, among others.

Paul, Weiss offers strategic advice on complex wealth planning and trust structuring matters, as well as transactional and investment issues. Clients benefit from the firm’s strengths across corporate, M&A, tax, estate planning and investment fund work. Its clients include high net worth individuals from elite corporations and investment funds, as well as family offices and family-owned enterprises.

Holland & Knight has a dedicated family office group that advises on formation and restructuring work for family office and high net worth clients. The firm is well regarded across the country for its skilful handling of related private wealth law issues such as succession planning, family constitution drafting and private trust company matters.

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.

The family office team at Pillsbury has a significant presence in Florida, Northern California and New York. It advises ultra-high net worth individuals and family offices on complex formation and restructuring matters. Its practitioners have deep expertise in areas such as income, estate and gift tax, as well as family succession issues.

Schulte Roth & Zabel has an impressive reputation for its work with high net worth clients. The firm provides tax structuring advice concerning the formation of family offices and advises entrepreneurs on fund management and estates issues.

Withers advises family office clients and ultra-affluent individuals on a global basis across its offices in the US, as well as Asia and Europe. It is able to assist with an impressive range of tax, trust and corporate issues, including investment and structuring advice. It also assists with compensation structuring for family office clients.

Ropes & Gray has significant family office and private wealth law capabilities in its offices in Boston, New York, San Francisco and Washington, DC. The firm regularly advises ultra-high net worth individuals and their family offices on the full suite of structuring, operational and investment matters.

Skadden is uniquely positioned to handle the most complex family office and funds structuring matters. Its New York-based group is a market leader on private investment, business succession and corporate and transactional issues, as well as traditional private client matters.