Legal advice for individuals and families with complex, evolving personal wealth
Significant wealth doesn't stand still and neither do the demands on it. When your interests span businesses, property, international assets and multiple generations, your legal advice needs to move with you.
The best adviser relationships aren't built around a single moment or need. They're built over time through a genuine understanding of your priorities, your ambitions and the environment shaping your decisions. As tax rules shift, families evolve, regulations change and international complexity grows, that continuity matters.
Whatever you are looking to protect, grow or pass on, we are here to support you with clear, practical legal advice.
Our Private Wealth team works with individuals and families with significant private wealth and complex affairs. We bring together technical excellence and practical insight, covering everything from governance and tax structuring to asset protection, property matters and dispute resolution.
Our goal is straightforward: to give you the clarity you need to make confident decisions about what matters most to you, now and for the long term.
Strong relationships are central to how we work. You will have a dedicated lawyer who takes the time to understand your world, someone accessible, responsive and invested in achieving the right outcome.
They will act as your primary point of contact, coordinating advice and drawing on specialists from across our firm, ensuring advice is joined up, risks are spotted early and solutions remain aligned with your priorities.
We will always work openly and collaboratively with your wider circle too, whether that includes accountants, investment managers, trustees or a family office, to ensure advice is coordinated, timely and relevant.
We advise a wide range of private clients, including:
- Business owners and entrepreneurial families
- Landed estates, farming and rural businesses
- UK-based and internationally mobile individuals
- Family offices (single and multi-family)
- Trustees, beneficiaries and protectors
Protecting relationships, wellbeing and the future for you and those closest to you. From succession and governance planning to family law, wealth protection and sensitive disputes, we provide advice that reflects the personal as well as the financial.
For entrepreneurs, business-owning families and family offices, personal and business interests are rarely separate. We provide clear, joined-up legal advice that supports continuity, transition and your long-term objectives.
Property is often both a personal asset and a long-term investment. We advise on ownership, management and succession across residential, rural and international property interests, taking a joined-up view within your wider wealth.
Ensuring wealth is protected, structured and positioned for future generations. We help you build structures that reflect your values, support long-term stewardship and provide clarity and control as circumstances evolve.
Many of our clients live, invest or hold assets across borders. We advise regularly on international structures, overseas properties and businesses, succession planning, and residence and mobility matters. Where specialist local insight is needed, we work with trusted lawyers in other jurisdictions to deliver the advice you need.
Learn about our international presenceIf you would like to discuss your circumstances and how our Private Wealth team may be able to support you, we would be pleased to speak with you.
Our advisers are approachable, responsive and committed to building long term relationships — providing legal advice you can rely on at every stage.
Contact
Mike Westbrook
Partner & Head of Private Wealth Division
+44 (0)117 9378695 m.westbrook@ashfords.co.uk View more
Kerry Morgan-Gould
Partner and Head of Trusts & Estates
+44 (0)1392 334154 k.morgan-gould@ashfords.co.uk View more
Susie Murray
Partner and Head of Residential & Rural Property
+44 (0)1392 333723 s.murray@ashfords.co.uk View more
Andrew Perkins
Partner and Head of Commercial Disputes
+44 (0)1392 334112 a.perkins@ashfords.co.uk View moreWe produce a range of insights and publications to help keep our clients up-to-date with legal and sector developments.
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