Families and Family Offices
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Today's global world presents opportunities and challenges. Surviving and succeeding requires wealthy families to evolve their plans and skills on a constant and on-going basis.
The issues on which each family may need advice will naturally be different: some will want guidance on preserving and enhancing their privately held wealth, whilst others may need support on running their businesses, or a steer on managing their property portfolios. Many of our clients have interests which span the world and we are well placed to advise on multi-jurisdictional planning and UK immigration applications.
Many families may also often need a helping hand in guiding them through disputes or on issues impacting their reputation.
Whatever the need, we understand that supporting families requires careful, professional, sensitive, and practical guidance. For centuries, we have worked hand-in-hand with some of the world’s most successful UK and international families and Family Offices and have enabled them to achieve their ambitions and served them to resolve disputes.
We have done that for 300 years, and we will continue to partner with them into the future.
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The Finance Bill published yesterday confirms that, as we highlighted in our 23 December briefing, the increased £2.5m inheritance tax relief for agricultural and business property will apply from 6 April 2026. Qualifying ‘relevant property’ trusts can also benefit from 100% relief up to this threshold, aligning trustee allowances with individual transfers.
Read more 2 min read 23 Dec 2025 Breaking news on IHT reformIn a welcome announcement for farmers and business owners, the government has confirmed an increase to the 100% IHT relief allowance to £2.5m per person from April 2026. Partner and Head of Private Wealth, Hayden Bailey and Legal Director, Emma Haley comment on what this means in practice and stress that now may be the right time to review wills and succession planning.
Read more 6 min read 10 Dec 2025 Five key proposals left out of the UK Budget – and what it meansWhat is missing from the Autumn Budget and what might this signal about the Government’s direction of travel? No wealth tax. No exit tax. Limited inheritance tax reform. Few incentives for entrepreneurs. Hayden Bailey, Partner & Head of Private Wealth shares his perspective on what these could mean for families, globally mobile individuals and business owners.
Read more 4 min read 04 Dec 2025 Mansion tax: High-value homes and higher billsBehind the headlines of the Autumn Budget lies a significant change for high-value residential properties: the new High Value Council Tax Surcharge (‘mansion tax’). Partners, Saskia Arthur and Andrew Loan break down what this means for property owners and why it matters.
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