Khaitan & Co

Number of partners: 11 Partners

Number of other fee-earners: 13 Lawyers

KCO’s PCP stands as India’s first and largest dedicated practice of its kind. What began as a small, yet strategic support unit has grown into a robust team of over 25 specialized lawyers. As a market leader in India’s rapidly expanding wealth industry, we are the trusted legal advisors to numerous high-profile Indian and NRI business families, promoters of listed companies, and pioneering entrepreneurs behind successful unicorns. Additionally, KCO’s PCP is the preferred counsel for leading wealth advisors, trustees, and investment managers.

KCO’s PCP stands out for its exceptional depth of experience, multidisciplinary expertise, and highly tailored services to UHNWIs, families, promoters, and family offices both in India and internationally. The team is renowned for delivering comprehensive, bespoke, and intergenerational wealth planning and structuring, expertly managing complex, multi-jurisdictional asset portfolios.

1. Structuring and reorganisation of family businesses
2. Succession, asset protection and retirement planning
3. Drafting Family Constitutions and Charters; Wills, trust deeds and other such testamentary documents
4. Issues arising out of specific laws, such as forced heirship rules, community property rules, etc
5. Tax and Regulatory landscape for Global Indian families
6. Renunciation of citizenship, acquisition of foreign citizenship and residence
7. Structuring of trusts, both in India and offshore
8. Planning for guardians, for persons with special needs
9. Drafting Family Settlements and assistance in resolution of family disputes
10. Multi-jurisdictional tax planning for private clients and their family businesses
11. Pre-nuptial agreements and trusts
12. Representations before SEBI for dispensations under the Takeover Code Regulations
13. Corporate and securities laws
14. Obtaining probates, approvals from regulators, court-related dispute resolution
15. Structuring the holding of international real estate, brokerage accounts or procurement of an overseas (including jumbo) insurance policy both from a tax and regulatory perspective for the Indian client

Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi NCR, Kolkata, Mumbai, Pune and Singapore