Private Wealth Law

Our private clients practice is the largest at the Belgian bar. We advise families and their business over several generations, following them, their families and businesses worldwide.

We advise on:

• prenuptial agreements  
• gifts and entails 
• governance structures (partnerships, holdings, Dutch/Belgian trust office foundations, etc.)  
• family governance 
• investments (insurance products, private equity, real estate, art,...)
• wills and agreements as to succession
• transfers of family businesses
• inheritance disputes
• formal ruling with the federal, regional and local tax administrations
• family foundations, trusts and philanthropy
• corporate income tax
• Cayman tax
• HR tax law 
• voluntary disclosure
• cross-border migration of individuals
• family law, mediation and litigation
• tax compliance and litigation 
• conflict guidance and mediation
• economic analysis and valuations

We can rely on specialized estate planners and on in-house civil law practitioners, mediators, tax and family law litigators, the all-round expertise of a full service corporate tax firm and our economists (Tiberghien economics). The latter assist us by performing valuations and in determining the appropriate interest rates, debt/equity ratio, etc. when structuring assets for private clients. 

We have an extensive (inter)national network; our private clients practice is represented in many networks such as IBA, IFA, STEP, AIJA, IAETL, ACTC, IAFL, EPSG.