Family & Family Law Firm

Family & Family Law Firm(hereinafter referred to as “Family & Family”) is currently the only law firm in Shanghai that is exclusively dedicated to marriage and family affairs, as well as wealth management. The founding team was established in 2004 and has handled over 4,000 family cases over the past 20 years.

Family & Family has a number of authoritative lawyers in the field of private wealth management. The team members not only have backgrounds from internationally renowned law schools but also possess rich practical experience in family litigation and private wealth management research. They excel particularly in handling complex and challenging cases.

In addition, Family & Family has versatile professionals with years of experience from the world's top four accounting firms, as well as renowned institutions in finance and education. The team comprises multidisciplinary talents with backgrounds in law, taxation, finance, and psychology. They have been serving as legal advisors and think tank experts for several top private bank headquarters, financial institutions, and well-known family offices in China. They have provided comprehensive wealth management solutions for more than 2,000 high-net-worth families with billions of yuan.

• Number of Partners: 10
• Office Location: Shanghai

• Wealth inheritance:family business transition arrangements, inheritance arrangements, design of wills, trusts and other legal tools, arrangements for dependents, risk management for profligate heirs, analysis of will conflicts, inheritance arrangements after remarriage, forced inheritance rights, and confidentiality assessment of inheritance arrangements.
• Property protection: structuring and clarification of personal and corporate assets, design of asset protection structures, confidentiality analysis and assessment, divorce risk management, second family legal risk management, protection plans for incapacitated individuals, political risk avoidance, and personal risk mitigation.
• Family business governance:governance structure, restructuring, information disclosure, management and regulation of connected transactions, formulation of family charters.
• Alternative assets:asset protection program design, inheritance planning and tax analysis for special types of assets (e.g., real estate, aircraft, vessels, works of art, etc.).
• Relocation and immigration:legal analysis of relocation and immigration for individuals and family members, comparative analysis of legislation, judiciary and law enforcement in different jurisdictions, analysis of potential legal and tax conflicts, legal and tax planning before relocation and immigration, ongoing legal and tax support after relocation and immigration.
• Education and training: systematic legal, tax and compliance training for individuals, families and financial institutions, personalized training courses.
• Charitable planning: charity structure design, legal and tax comparison and analysis, legal support for the operation of charitable organizations.
• Compliance and risk control:comprehensive, systematic and in-depth information analysis and comparison, practical and compliant solutions for individuals, families and financial institutions to deal with the evolving compliance requirements including FATCA, CRS, etc., risk control of domestic and international platforms operations, communication with regulators, and analysis of regulatory policies.
• Tax planning:individual and corporate tax consultation, solution design, international tax planning, tax dispute resolution, tax risk management, consultation on the latest changes in tax laws and regulations, tax incentives application, tax audit arrangement and processing, M&A and restructuring tax consulting, application of tax treaty provisions, tax due diligence for M&A and IPO projects, tax compliance assessment, transfer pricing consulting.

Address:8/F, Tower 2, No. 3 Hongqiao Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai, China

Tel:021-62882188

Email:[email protected]