Protecting your assets requires expert planning. We’ll help you to structure your personal affairs and preserve wealth for future generations.
Our specialist Private Wealth team provides bespoke advice and expert solutions on all aspects of trust law, personal asset and estate planning, family governance and succession, and cross border wealth structuring. We regularly assist trustees, beneficiaries, high net worth individuals and families, migrant entrepreneurs and business owners, and returning New Zealand expatriates.
We understand the unique challenges and opportunities that come with managing significant wealth. With our diverse experiences and network of professional advisers, we have the expertise to structure the most complex of family affairs and help our clients to navigate these delicate relationships at the same time.
Family business succession and governance issues
Cross-border wealth structuring and international estate planning
Establishment, management and governance of family offices
Trust advice, including establishment, resettlement and restructuring
Trusteeship and trust administration services
Estate planning, including wills and enduring powers of attorney (EPAs)
Asset planning and protection strategies
Probate, intestacy and estate administration
Contentious trusts and estate disputes
Relationship property and separation
We also advise charities and not-for-profit entities on their structuring needs.
As a top tier, globally connected and full-service law firm, we deliver holistic solutions by drawing upon our market-leading practice areas for expert guidance, such as property and real estate, tax, insurance, corporate and commercial, immigration and dispute resolution.
We often work together with our clients' offshore family offices, lawyers and accountants. This connection allows us to help our clients navigate complex cross-border interests, ensuring our advice is co-ordinated, pragmatic and responsive.
Experts in our field, we are engaged with evolving legal and market developments that can potentially impact your interests.
At MinterEllisonRuddWatts, we are committed to delivering expert advice with excellent client service.
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