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I need help managing and structuring significant personal wealth.

I’m planning how my family’s assets and business interests will pass on.

I want clear rules for how my family makes decisions about shared wealth or a family business.

I need coordinated guidance across my UAE and international assets.

If any of this sounds familiar, tell us what happened, wealth structuring and family governance benefit from careful, experienced guidance.

Private client law covers how individuals and families hold, protect and pass on significant personal or family wealth, typically across several types of asset and often across more than one country.

This area includes structuring how assets are owned, putting family governance in place for shared wealth or a family business, and, for internationally mobile individuals, navigating how personal wealth is treated across multiple jurisdictions.

In the UAE, private client matters often involve specific considerations given the diverse expatriate population and the interaction between UAE law and individuals' home country legal frameworks.

Understanding roughly what kind of private client matter you’re facing, an overall structuring review, family governance, or coordinating advice across several countries, helps clarify what kind of legal support fits your needs.

You might need a private client lawyer when your wealth has outgrown simple personal ownership, for example when property, company shares and investments are held in different places and in different names.

Families who share a business or other significant assets often need help putting family governance in place, how decisions are made, who is involved, and what happens when the next generation joins.

You may need private client support to bring several advisers together, accountants, bankers and lawyers in other countries, so that each part of the structure fits one overall plan.

Individuals with assets spanning multiple countries often need guidance on how these different jurisdictions' laws interact with the way their wealth is held.

Wealth structuring reviews, mapping how personal, business and investment assets are currently held and whether that still fits the family’s goals.

Asset protection planning, considering how assets are held and protected across the UAE and other jurisdictions.

Family governance, agreeing how a family makes decisions about shared wealth or a family business, often recorded in a family charter.

Adviser coordination, bringing tax, banking and legal advice from different countries together around one plan.

Next-generation planning, preparing both the family and the structure for how wealth and decision-making will pass to the next generation.

LEXNOVA is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice. Legal Connect exists to help you describe your private client matter clearly, then explore potentially suitable legal professionals from our network.

We consider the specific nature of your matter, whether planning or dispute-related, your location, and any cross-border elements when identifying potentially suitable professionals.

Every potential match involves human review before an introduction, given how personal and sometimes sensitive private client matters can be.

Once we identify a potential match, we help facilitate an introduction, and the lawyer discusses your matter directly with you from that point.

The process starts with a short guided form asking about the nature of your private client matter, your location, a general description, and urgency.

We ask that you share only general context at this stage, given the personal and sometimes sensitive nature of family wealth matters.

After submission, our team reviews your request and considers lawyers whose private client experience aligns with your specific situation.

If your matter falls outside what our network can currently support well, we'll tell you honestly rather than force an unsuitable introduction.

A family’s wealth in the UAE is often held in several forms at once, property, shares in a mainland or free zone company, and bank or investment accounts, and each can involve a different body when it changes hands, such as the Dubai Land Department, a free zone authority or a financial institution.

A will, a DIFC or ADGM trust or foundation, a family charter and a family office each do a different job, and a private client review looks at which of them, if any, the family needs and how they fit together before any one of them is set up.

If you’re unsure how UAE law applies to the way your wealth is held, a lawyer can help clarify this based on your circumstances.

Larger firms may offer more resources for complex structures involving significant or internationally distributed assets.

Independent lawyers can offer more direct, personal attention, often valued given the personal nature of these matters.

The right choice often depends on how complex the structure is and personal comfort with the lawyer given the sensitive nature of this work.

Have they handled matters similar to yours, particularly relevant cross-border experience if your situation involves multiple jurisdictions?

How do they work with your other advisers, such as accountants, bankers or lawyers in other countries, so that the overall structure holds together?

What is their fee structure, and roughly what should you expect for a matter like yours?

A defined piece of work, such as reviewing how your assets are currently held, may be priced more predictably than an open-ended structuring or family governance project involving several countries and advisers.

LEXNOVA does not set or control fees, this is communicated directly by each professional, and it's reasonable to request a clear estimate before engaging anyone.

Having a general understanding of your assets and family situation ready helps make your first conversation with a lawyer more productive.

If structures are already in place, such as family companies or holding arrangements, having their key documents to hand helps the lawyer see the whole picture.

When describing your needs through Legal Connect, we ask that you share only general context at the initial stage, given the personal nature of these matters.

Once introduced to a lawyer, you can discuss your full situation directly and confidentially as part of your professional relationship with them.

Wealth structuring: deciding how personal, family and business assets are owned and held, for example personally, through companies, or through a trust or foundation.

Family governance: the agreed rules and processes through which a family makes decisions about shared wealth or a family business.

Family charter: a written document, sometimes called a family constitution, recording how a family makes decisions about shared wealth or a family business and how family members take part.

Holding company: a company whose main role is to own shares in other companies, often used to bring family business interests under a single owner.

We only introduce professionals who have joined our network and been verified for matching; we never invent a professional or their experience.

Every potential introduction involves human review, and we're transparent that LEXNOVA is not a law firm and does not guarantee outcomes.

Your family’s assets now sit in several countries or companies, and no one has looked at how they fit together.

A family business is approaching a handover to the next generation without agreed rules on who decides what.

Advice from your accountants, bankers or lawyers in different countries doesn’t line up.

Family members disagree about how shared assets or a family business should be run, and there is no agreed way to decide.

Individuals and families with assets or family members in several countries face genuine complexity in making sure the way their wealth is held works coherently across jurisdictions.

A lawyer with genuine cross-border private client experience can help navigate these interconnected considerations.

That private client advice is only about writing a will, how assets are held, who makes family decisions and how advisers work together usually matter just as much.

That a structure, once set up, never needs revisiting, family circumstances, assets and countries of residence change, and the structure may need to change with them.

A focused review of how your assets are currently held can often be completed relatively quickly once the lawyer has the full picture.

Putting new structures or family governance in place across several countries usually takes longer, since it depends on other advisers, institutions and registries as well.

Private client matters involve deeply personal decisions about your family's future, and the right lawyer depends on your specific situation and assets.

LEXNOVA Legal Connect exists to make this first step easier, helping you describe your needs and explore potentially suitable professionals from our network.

The legal relationship remains directly between you and the professional you're introduced to.