High Net Worth Guide 2025 : USA - Nationwide
Ranked Individuals
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By continually finding new and better ways to serve our clients, we’ve established ourselves as the go-to wealth transfer and planning resource for high-net-worth individuals. We are known for our ability to distill sophisticated legal concepts into clear, actionable advice and have pioneered the estate planning practices that lead the industry.
Our Trusts & Estates Practice Group builds innovative, personalized strategies that advance clients’ unique needs and protect their financial legacies. We use the same problem-solving approach to successfully represent public charities and private foundations, and to collaborate across departments with the firm as members of the firm’s interdisciplinary “Private Investment and Family Office Group” on structures involving the formation and integration of family offices in our clients’ overall estate planning strategies.
We work in tandem with clients’ other advisers, such as financial planners, investment advisors, family office managers, accountants and insurance agents, to coordinate our clients’ estate plans with their financial structure.
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Kirkland & Ellis has a fund formation practice and a private investment and family office group. Its Chicago-based partners handle a wide array of fund formation work for family office clients. Their expertise cuts across investment vehicle structuring, M&A, finance, tax and wealth planning.
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There is great individual knowledge, industry experience and market knowledge as well as practical and timely advice available at Kirkland Ellis. They are also very responsive.
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David Handler has a wealth of experience advising family offices, principals of private equity and venture capital funds, and privately owned enterprises on an impressive range of complex structuring matters.
David is able to translate ivory tower issues into proactive advice.
Ryan Harris leads the firm's private investment and family office practice. He represents investment management arms and family offices in M&A and structuring.
Ryan is a go-getter and a master connector who listens well and is able to craft custom solutions to complex problems.
Cole Parker co-leads Kirland & Ellis's private investment and family office practice. Parker has a busy practice advising clients on fund formation and investment, as well as the formation of family offices.
Cole is a fantastic attorney who really digs in and understands complexity. He also exhibits a smart bedside manner.
Family Offices & Funds Structuring
Family Offices & Funds Structuring
Family Offices & Funds Structuring
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