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Introduction
Loeb Smith has a wealth of experience in working with different types of family office, local and international families and providers of family office services. We are proud to have been chosen to advise some of the wealthiest families and business people, often developing close relationships that last across generations. We provide assistance in relation to the governance of family offices, in particular the role of family members, external consultants and investment advisors in the family office structure, succession planning and the frameworks to support communication between the family office, family members and their key advisors.
We can also assist with the legal and regulatory issues involved in establishing new family offices and for existing family offices including financial services regulation, necessary licensing and staffing permissions, anti-money laundering reporting and obligations, and data protection, together with the relocation of family members, family offices and staff across the jurisdictions and related business set-up, property, immigration and employment matters.
Scope of Services
- Establishment and structuring of:
- Cayman trusts and BVI trusts
- Foundation companies
- Companies
- Limited partnerships
- Alternative structures, including segregated portfolio companies
- Private trust companies
- Holding structures for luxury assets
- Cayman trusts and BVI trusts
- Governance
- Multi-generational families
- Composition of boards by family members and professional advisors
- Succession planning and asset preservation
- Wills and estate administration
- Regulatory
- Authorization, registration, licensing, staffing permissions and available exemptions related to entities and family investments
- Economic Substance compliance
- Beneficial ownership compliance
- Financial services regulations (funds, trust, investments services and corporate administration)
- Anti-money laundering (AML), anti-bribery and corruption / avoiding facilitation of tax evasion
- Policies and procedures
- Data protection
- Relocations and Property
- Family office set up and operations
- Family and trusts disputes
- Financial distress
- M&A transactional services
- Real estate investments
- Art and collectibles finance and investment
- Philanthropy
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