Family Offices & owner-managed businesses

Astraea Group places a significant emphasis on its rich legacy in catering to private client needs, underscoring its understanding of the intricate dynamics and requirements of families, family businesses, and family offices globally.

Such clients are increasingly concerned about financial, regulatory and reputational risk, and ensuring asset protection, full regulatory compliance and maintaining privacy.  Our legal and regulatory expertise and litigation and investigations capabilities make us particularly well-suited to advise high net worth families and their businesses, family offices and trustees on these areas.

This includes:

  • Design of asset holding and governance structures

  • Health checks of asset holding structures to identify vulnerabilities and propose remedial actions

  • Rapid response to incidents of potential financial loss and liability including fraud, hacks and leaks

  • Managing commercial and financial disputes

  • Internal investigations

  • Project managing sensitive discussions with government departments and agencies to protect and advance client interests

  • Confidentiality and reputation management

  • Strategic advice on inter-family relations and succession

  • Compliance audits

  • Service provider engagement and performance management (this includes banks, trustees, accountants, tax advice, family lawyers, real estate professionals, brokers).

Despite the complex and diverse issues faced by our clients, Astraea Group remains steadfast in its commitment to preserving wealth for family and philanthropic endeavours. The firm collaborates closely with clients to navigate the intricate balance between privacy preservation, asset protection, value realisation, and the safeguarding of reputation and family values.

The firm's robust expertise extends across wealth structuring, tax and succession planning, and private wealth disputes, ensuring that our clients can pursue their long-term aspirations, while safeguarding against unforeseen challenges. Many of the families advised by the firm possess diverse personal wealth, business, and property interests in multiple jurisdictions, often without residence or domicile in the UK.

Astraea Group is well-equipped to address tax, regulatory, and legal challenges that may arise in the ever-evolving and regulated global landscape.