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Mishcons to go beyond legal with new high-net private client business

Mishcon de Reya is set to branch out into non-legal services, with the firm planning to launch a private client business for high-net-worth individuals. The UK law firm plans to create a new venture that will see it offer individuals and families with assets of more than £50m access to their own team of non-legal advisers, offering services such as private bank relationship management advice, tax advice and concierge services.
4 minute read

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LG and Withers target high net clients with Singapore launches

LG and Withers are both set to open offices in Singapore this spring in a bid to capture a share of the region's growing private client market. LG's Singapore launch, which will go live in the coming months through an alliance with local outfit PK Wong and Associates, marks the City law firm's first base in Asia.
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Tods Murray bulks up in private client with Edinburgh boutique merger

Scots firm Tods Murray and Edinburgh boutique Fyfe Ireland are to merge, creating a combined practice to be known as Tods Murray LLP. Fyfe partners Greig Honeyman and Drew Taylor will take eight lawyers and six support staff to Tods Murray's Edinburgh office on Monday (30 January).
2 minute read

International Edition

Private client

The virtues of FLPs, how unrest in the Middle East has prompted a role for lawyers, succession planning and the evolution of private client work in China
1 minute read

International Edition

Private Client/Family Team of the Year: Berkeley Law

Berkeley Law is a Mayfair-based boutique private client law firm that was founded in May 2010 by four partners – Nick Rucker, Alex Ruffel, Glenn Hurstfield and Tim Thornton Jones – and a team of solicitors from Lawrence Graham. Its goal was to maintain its legacy client base and attract new clients, with a particular focus on emerging markets where much new wealth is being generated.
2 minute read

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Play it safe - the 10 golden rules for wealth advisers

Georgina Stanley summarises the 10 golden rules for wealth advisers, as identified by delegates at Legal Week's recent Private Client Forum
4 minute read

International Edition

Down the ages - making sure future generation benefit from family wealth

Having a plan is vital if you want future generations to benefit from your wealth, says BLP's Rupert Ticehurst
6 minute read

International Edition

The political pay cheque - unrest in the Middle East creates more roles for lawyers

Unrest in the Middle East has prompted a prominent 
role for lawyers as scrutiny grows over the assets of the 
region's key political players, as Bakers' Paul Stibbard reports
6 minute read

International Edition

Building for the future - the virtues of FLPs

Taylor Wessing's Andrew Goodman extols the virtues of family limited partnerships as part of an adviser's toolkit for protecting a wealthy family's trust
9 minute read

International Edition

Rising capital - the evolution of China's private client legal market

At Legal Week's Private Client Forum Asia earlier this year, KhattarWong's Gurbachan Singh and Baker & McKenzie's Michael Olesnicky discussed the evolution of the private client legal market in China
9 minute read

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