Family offices manage some of the most personal and long-term legal relationships this firm handles, spanning succession, inheritance, and often an underlying family business, meaning these relationships genuinely differ from a typical corporate client in both duration and the personal stakes involved.
We approach family office relationships with this long-term perspective in mind, building genuine familiarity with a family's specific situation over years rather than treating each matter as a standalone transaction.
Our Private Client practice coordinates family business succession with personal estate and inheritance matters as one picture, recognizing that a family's wealth planning and their business's operational continuity are genuinely interconnected rather than separate concerns.
We help families navigate the sometimes difficult conversations around succession timing and structure, since these decisions carry both financial and genuine family relationship implications.
This involves understanding how fixed Sharia inheritance shares apply to a family's specific situation, and how tools like wills and waqf endowments can provide additional flexibility within that framework for families with more complex wealth structures or specific charitable intentions.
We help families understand these tools well before they become urgently needed, since proactive planning consistently produces more options than reactive planning under pressure.
Where a family's wealth is tied to an operating business, we coordinate closely with our Corporate & Commercial practice, since decisions about business ownership structure, governance, and eventual transfer have real implications for the family's broader wealth planning.
This integrated approach means a family doesn't need to separately engage different specialists for what is, in practice, one interconnected wealth and succession picture.
Family offices increasingly think in terms of multi-generational planning — structures that account not just for the current generation's needs but for how wealth and business ownership will actually work across future generations with potentially different interests and involvement levels.
We help families think through these longer-term structural questions, since a structure that works well for one generation doesn't always translate cleanly to the next.
Many family offices manage wealth and family members spanning multiple countries, raising questions about how Saudi inheritance and estate frameworks interact with foreign jurisdictions where family members or assets are located.
We help families understand this interaction, coordinating with foreign counsel where necessary rather than assuming a purely domestic framework addresses every consideration.
Private Client relationships are built on long-term trust and full confidentiality, and we understand that family office matters often touch sensitive family dynamics as much as legal structure, requiring discretion beyond standard attorney-client confidentiality expectations.
This confidentiality extends across every dimension of the relationship, from routine estate planning conversations to more sensitive succession or family dynamic discussions.
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We can arrange an initial confidential conversation at whatever pace feels right for your family's situation.
Yes — our Private Client practice coordinates family business succession with personal estate and inheritance matters as one picture.
Yes, completely — Private Client relationships are built on long-term trust and full confidentiality.
It accounts for how wealth and business ownership will work across future generations with different interests, not just the current generation's immediate needs.
Yes — we help families understand how Saudi frameworks interact with foreign jurisdictions, coordinating with foreign counsel where necessary.
Considerably earlier than most families expect — proactive planning consistently produces more options than reactive planning once succession becomes urgent.
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