Private Client Practice

We advise HNIs, family offices, entrepreneurs, and trustees on protecting, managing, and transferring wealth with a focus on clarity, confidentiality, and long-term stability:

Advisory & Structuring

  • Designing and setting up efficient inheritance and wealth distribution structures (legal and regulatory)
  • Advisory on intestate succession (where no estate plan exists)
  • Structuring alternate holding vehicles for protection and optimization, such as:
    • holding companies
    • LLPs
    • trusts
  • Succession planning for ownership and management of family businesses
  • Advisory for family office investments and divestments
  • Guidance on cross-border inheritance and overseas elements
  • Advisory on residential status under Indian foreign exchange control laws
  • Support on registration requirements and stamp duty implications
  • Structuring philanthropic / mission-driven capital, including:
    • charitable trusts and foundations
    • impact-focused vehicles and purpose-aligned structures

 

Estate Planning Documentation

  • Wills (individual, joint, mutual, and joint & mutual wills)
  • Trust deeds (inter vivos and testamentary trusts)
  • Gift deeds
  • Family settlement agreements
  • Family constitution
  • Shareholders’ agreements
  • Living will
  • Preparing a consolidated asset & liability data list for future generations

 

Implementation Support & Dispute Resolution

  • Assistance with probate and regulatory approvals
  • Support for succession certificates and letters of administration
  • Dispute strategy, negotiations, and settlement support
  • Representation before courts (including family courts), directly and through counsel/senior counsel
  • Handling disputes including:
    • trust/estate/inheritance disputes
    • shareholder/partnership conflicts
    • fraud, mismanagement, asset recovery, and enforcement
    • enforcement of family settlements
    • crisis management, reputation and privacy protection