PRIVATE
CLIENTS
private clients
Tailored Advisory for You
Your wealth, legacy, and business interests deserve a strategy as unique as you are. We partner with affluent & high-net-worth individuals, families, and business owners of African descent to protect what matters most—ensuring smooth succession, business continuity, and long-term growth.
With deep local expertise and a global perspective, we simplify complexities, structure solutions that align with your vision, and provide the strategic guidance you need to navigate the future with confidence—seamlessly connecting generations and safeguarding your legacy for years to come.
FOCUS AREAS
Asset Protection
Concerned about safeguarding your assets from potential risks & threats? We offer pragmatic solutions and legal structures to shield your assets. Using globally accepted ringfencing techniques, we segregate certain assets and deploy protective measures to ensure each class is adequately shielded from legal claims, financial difficulties, investment or business failures or unforeseen circumstances.
What we do
• Ring Fencing
• Asset Structuring & Distribution
• Intellectual Property Protection
• Asset Security
Estate Planning & Succession
For years, we have assisted families that value succession planning. We deploy effective estate planning strategies to ensure that assets and beneficiaries are effectively taken care of.
We create structures to protect family assets, minimize tax, handle stakeholders and facilitate the seamless passing of wealth and assets to the next generation. This may involve wills, private trusts, lifetime gifts, powers of attorneys, intra-family sales, charitable planning & restructuring companies for your estate and business succession plans.
What we do
• Succession Planning
• Wills
• Private Trusts
• Stakeholder Management
• Lifetime Planning & Gifts
Negotiation & Contract Administration
With our diverse sector expertise, we assist our clients in effectively negotiating contractual terms aligned with their commercial objectives. Whether it’s for the sale or purchase of assets, employment matters, partnership discussions, investor relations, there is no better time to negotiate terms than at the beginning of the relationship.
Our advisors are commercially astute and smart providing effective negotiators on your side. We structure our negotiations to meet your needs and you can be confident that your contracts are fair and reasonable, encouraging long term, amicable relationships.
What we do
• Representation
• Contract Administration
• Deal Structuring
Real Estate
We have sector-leading technical expertise in every field of commercial real estate & residential properties. We understand the regulatory and legal issues involved in secured lending for property purchases and provide comprehensive advisory services.
Whether you are buying or selling your own residence, acquiring or disposing of an investment asset or developing a new office, we have the right people help you navigate these important transactions.
What we do
• Real Estate Development
• Real Estate Investment
• Property Management
• Sale & Purchase of Properties
• Leases & Tenancies
• Commercial real estate
Luxury Collections
We work with collectors, creators and curators to protect the value of the objects they love. Whether it involves art, wine, classic cars, yachts, musical instruments, watches and jewellery or other luxury collectables, we understand the myriad of issues that can surround the curation or creation of these luxury assets.
We provide advise on the legal issues surrounding your rights, sales, commissioning, and lending or consignment to private galleries and public exhibitions. Where you own, or inherited a piece of art or a collectible luxury asset, we advise on how best to pass on these pieces whilst managing taxation.
What we do
• Acquisition & Sale
• Planning & Structuring
• Negotiation of contracts
