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Private Client Practice

With the ongoing inter-generational transfer of wealth globally and in India, ensuring seamless transition of assets and control over family businesses has become a mainstream consideration. Our team provides bespoke, strategic, and comprehensive legal solutions to individuals, families, and fiduciaries, helping them safeguard wealth, structure estates, and manage succession planning across generations.

Professional estate planning attorney

We assist individuals and families with drafting wills, establishing and managing personal trusts, and planning for cross-border assets. Our approach focuses on ensuring legal clarity and minimising conflict, while aligning with each client’s long-term objectives. With expertise in inheritance laws and international estate planning, we help clients structure and transition personal wealth with foresight and confidence.

We support executors, trustees, and beneficiaries in the administration of estates and trusts in succession matters, ensuring compliance with fiduciary duties, tax regulations, and inheritance laws. Our services include assistance with probate proceedings, trust administration, and asset distribution while navigating regulatory complexities and resolving intra-family and matrimonial disputes. We represent clients in succession conflicts and offer guidance on dispute prevention through sound legal structuring. Additionally, we advise on charitable giving, family foundations, and regulatory frameworks for not-for-profit entities, helping clients establish and sustain impactful philanthropic legacies with legal clarity and operational efficiency.

We offer full-spectrum advisory to family businesses and family offices, assisting with wealth structuring, succession strategies, and tax optimisation. Our services include designing family governance frameworks, establishing and managing trusts, and structuring philanthropic initiatives. Our team brings expertise in private wealth law, succession planning, and regulatory frameworks, offering strategic and practical legal guidance tailored to the complexities of Indian family enterprises.

Service offerings

  • Domestic and cross-border estate planning for individuals, business owners, and HNIs, including charitable bequests and estate donations, and long-term legacy planning

  • Trust creation, administration, and restructuring, including discretionary, charitable, and offshore trusts

  • Succession planning, wills, and testamentary trusts, ensuring tax-efficient wealth transfer and legal clarity

  • Resolving succession, probate, and family disputes, including contested wills, inheritance claims, and trust litigation

  • Family wealth protection, including pre- and post-nuptial agreements, financial settlements, and asset division

  • Representation in matrimonial and family disputes, including child adoption, guardianship and custody, maintenance, interparental kidnapping, and legal protections for elders and vulnerable family members

Representative matters

Promoters of MP Birla Group on a probate petition in relation to the estate of Late Priyamvada Devi Birla before the Calcutta High Court and the Supreme Court.
Promoters of Century Ply on the formation of private family trusts, including drafting, execution, and registration of trust instruments.
Promoters of Duncan Group on assisting executors in probate proceedings and administration of estates involving cross-border assets across India and Singapore.
Promoters of Patton Group on representing beneficiaries in a high-value succession dispute, resolving intra-family conflicts through structured settlement and mediation.
Promoters of Keventer Group on the formation and registration of a charitable trust and guided a family foundation on compliance with the not-for-profit regulatory framework.
Promoters of Graphite Group on structuring governance and succession frameworks for a multigenerational family enterprise, including tax-optimised wealth planning and creation of a family office.
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