Harneys

Harneys multi-award-winning Private Wealth team, based in financial centres round the world, assists a wide range of clients including high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth individuals, their families and their businesses, institutional trust companies and private offices, companies and partnerships, banks, accountants and pension providers.

High-net-worth individuals and corporate clients have an array of important wealth management needs. These often have a multi-jurisdictional dimension, so need sound, technical advice to ensure they comply with regulations.

Harneys guides clients on developing wealth-holding structures and trusts. Some are relatively straightforward structures, others may require bespoke and innovative solutions. Areas of advice range from pensions or funds, to matters of generational succession, to more complex dynasty trusts designed to hold wealth for generations. They also advise on philanthropic pursuits, assisting with the establishment of charitable trusts and foundations.

In the commercial context, they advise on the creation and management of unit trusts, pension trusts, purpose trusts and EBTs. Harneys lawyers are well-versed in the establishment and operation of private trust companies, often in the context of highly complex overall structures. Additionally, they have strong experience in drafting all types of wills, from simple wills disposing of shares in a BVI, Cayman or Cyprus company, to more complex wills establishing family trusts. Harneys is one of the world’s biggest providers of BVI and Cayman Grants of Probates and Letters of Administration, and pride themselves on an efficient and responsive service.

They also advise clients on purchasing assets as diverse as fine art, property or private islands. Their leading shipping and aircraft practice acts for some of the world’s leading financial institutions, law firms, shipbuilders, owners, brokers and charterers.

Harneys' highly respected lawyers work alongside Harneys Fiduciary, their strategic alliance partner, which provides a full complement of corporate, wealth, and fiduciary services. Together they guide clients on the ideal structure to acquire, consolidate and protect their assets while helping to navigate complex regulatory issues.

Their culture and ethos puts their clients’ needs at the centre of everything that they do and this is reflected in their innovation in creating tailored private wealth structures to protect assets and secure them for future generations. As trusted advisors they provide a single point of contact, backed by their global network, to offer a unique, responsive and forward thinking service.