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Next gen: law, life & legacy

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As families transform & modernise, experts from Penningtons Manches Cooper chart the changing landscape of private wealth
  • Practical insights for next generation and modern families that are navigating the coming wealth transfer.
  • Explores real-world scenarios, including late-life relationships, blended families, international marriages, surrogacy, vulnerable beneficiaries and cross-border estates.

The private wealth sector is experiencing a generational pivot. Today’s next generation—more globally mobile, values-driven and digitally fluent than their predecessors—is inheriting not only assets but the responsibility to manage and safeguard them across complex family structures and jurisdictions.

Its expectations are for transparency, agility and cross-disciplinary advice in the private wealth sector. At the same time, familiar pressure points such as capacity and vulnerability, marriage and international mobility, and post-death disputes, are appearing in new configurations that demand earlier, holistic intervention.

Family law & intergenerational wealth transfer

Nuptial settlements

When it comes to intergenerational wealth transfer, the potential impact of divorce on family money is often underestimated. Private wealth structures can offer valuable protection,

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