Private Client & Family Business
Shearn Delamore & Co.’s Private Client & Family Business practice group was created in mid 2017 to provide our high net worth clients and their families with personalised legal services relating to all aspects of their personal and professional lives. We are sensitive to the related tax, succession planning and corporate issues that would potentially impact their business value and personal worth.
Our bespoke practice is built around designing practical legal solutions that can preserve and maximise the potential of our clients’ private wealth and family businesses, whilst helping them to continue and properly structure these assets in a manner that allows them to smoothly transfer control to their next generation.
Our clientele in this area also extends to international private banking groups and trust companies, foreign residents and high profile individuals that require discreet and strategic services relating to multi-disciplinary, multi-jurisdictional legal matters.
Our partners are also experienced in dealing with family business disputes and have advised over a broad range of such family ventures such as gaming, plantation, timber, property development and automotive. We understand the intricacy of familial relationship and the wishes of the founders. More importantly, we take pride in getting to know our clients personally and appreciate the importance of values in business succession and planning.
Within this practice, we offer strategic legal advice for:
- Dispute Resolution
- Personal Taxation
- Trusts and Alternative Structures
- Foundations
- Companies Limited by Guarantee
- Probate
- Succession Planning
- Corporate Restructuring
- Listings of Family Held Businesses and Leading Entrepreneur Accelerator Platform (LEAP) market
- Intra Family Settlements and Property Division