Wills and estate planning
Helping individuals record testamentary intentions, consider beneficiaries and executors, and organise documentation for an orderly transfer of assets.
Practice Areas / YNB IP Associates
Private Clients
Personal legal decisions can shape the security of families, the stewardship of assets and the future of family businesses. Our Private Clients practice provides considered legal support for individuals and families navigating succession, ownership and sensitive personal matters.
Our approach
Understanding the issues. Clarifying the options.
Every matter depends on its facts, applicable law and commercial context. The following overview describes areas in which legal support may be relevant. the precise scope of any engagement is agreed separately.
Succession and inheritance
Advice on inheritance rights, succession planning, probate and succession certificates, with attention to the applicable personal and succession laws.
Family wealth and ownership structures
Reviewing legal ownership arrangements, family holding structures and the documentation needed to support responsible long term management of assets.
Trusts, gifts and settlements
Assistance with trust deeds, gift deeds, family settlement agreements and related documentation, taking account of formalities and the intended legal effect.
Family business succession
Planning ownership transitions, governance arrangements, shareholder understandings and continuity of family operated enterprises.
Cross border private matters
Identifying legal issues where family members or assets are located in more than one jurisdiction, and coordinating appropriate local advice where required.
Inheritance and family property disputes
Assessing contested wills, succession disagreements, trust issues and family property claims, with an emphasis on practical and proportionate resolution.
Philanthropy and charitable initiatives
Legal structuring and documentation for charitable trusts, family philanthropy and related governance considerations.
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This overview is general information and not legal advice. It does not create a lawyer to client relationship.
