Jingtian & Gongcheng's Private Client and Wealth Management practice advises private companies, family offices, and high net-worth individuals in addressing increasingly complex legal issues related to tighter regulation and evolving laws that impact investments, assets, and tax structures. Our private clients and their advisors require a multifaceted perspective that spans across corporate and commercial law, M&A, trusts and estates, succession planning charitable donations, tax transactions and tax controversies, real estate investment, and dispute resolution. Not only do we represent clients with high value assets, we also advise financial institutions and their advisors in relation to investment management and trust and estate planning and administration.

Our lawyers are experienced in dealing with family-related disputes and in providing comprehensive, multidisciplinary legal services to high net-worth individuals and their families in terms of wealth planning.

Areas of Work

 

Our Private Client and Wealth Management services include:

• Complex marriage arrangements between Chinese and foreign high net-worth clients, including negotiation and dispute resolution of property inheritance and wealth management cases. We have specific experience in providing insight into dealing with the inheritance and allocation of shares of public companies.
• Family-related disputes and negotiation, including between domestic and foreign high net-worth clients.
• Planning for protection and inheritance of domestic and foreign family wealth, such as prenuptial or marriage agreement planning, helping design family business equity structure and optimization, and family trust.
• Advisory services to family offices and high net-worth individuals in listing on domestic and foreign capital markets, M&A, and other investments.

Appearing as an expert witness in foreign court investigations into family issues.