Private Capital & Trusts

Walkers provides the same integrated, innovative and seamless service to clients holding private capital as we provide to Fortune 500 companies, tier-one financial institutions and institutional asset managers.

We deliver highly commercial legal solutions across practice areas and sectors, providing a fully integrated service to clients. Our clients have come to rely on us as a trusted adviser for our unmatched expertise and commitment to excellence both in our work product and in our relationships.

Ultra-high-net-worth individuals and families face a multitude of responsibilities and challenges as they seek strategies to preserve and enhance their wealth and ensure its continued relevance across generations. New and diverse cross-border personal, business and investment interests present opportunities, challenges and threats, as well as involved governance and organisational requirements.

Understanding the unique and increasingly complex needs of the globally mobile, our specialist private capital team is composed of selected specialists who advise on corporate, finance investment funds, trusts and estates and litigation matters. We work with high-net-worth individuals, family business, family offices, private banks and trust companies and their advisers to provide timely, customised advice across jurisdictions that address the particular sensitivities of private capital clients. Our work includes:

  • Corporate including acquisitions, mergers and dispositions
  • Establishing private capital Investment Funds
  • Direct investing
  • Private and commercial trusts, wealth and succession planning, and wills and probate
  • Charitable and philanthropic trusts and entities
  • Joint ventures and co-investing
  • Structuring investments into Private Equity Funds
  • Real Estate investment and finance
  • Regulatory and compliance
  • Litigation, including Insolvency & Dispute Resolution
  • A broad range of corporate services designed to support, or outsource, back office operations through Walkers Corporate Limited

Due to our institutional and investor relationships globally, Walkers is also uniquely positioned to deliver added value to clients by facilitating introductions of mutual interest to our clients.

Walkers is further distinguished in the marketplace through Walkers Professional Services ("WPS"), which provides corporate, fiduciary and compliance solutions to a range of clients, including registered office and other corporate services alongside the legal team.

Walkers has invested in the development of state-of-the-art technology, infrastructure and proprietary software in order to maximise the efficiency, quality and reliability of WPS's services. Our solutions are scalable and can be configured to suit the unique needs and preferences of our clients. Our legal and fiduciary teams work as one to provide a bespoke service to our private capital clients.

Private clients rely on Walkers for market-leading expertise combined with discreet, confidential and individually tailored advice with a long-term, multi-generational perspective.

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