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Next gen: law, life & legacy

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As families transform & modernise, experts from Penningtons Manches Cooper chart the changing landscape of private wealth
  • Practical insights for next generation and modern families that are navigating the coming wealth transfer.
  • Explores real-world scenarios, including late-life relationships, blended families, international marriages, surrogacy, vulnerable beneficiaries and cross-border estates.

The private wealth sector is experiencing a generational pivot. Today’s next generation—more globally mobile, values-driven and digitally fluent than their predecessors—is inheriting not only assets but the responsibility to manage and safeguard them across complex family structures and jurisdictions.

Its expectations are for transparency, agility and cross-disciplinary advice in the private wealth sector. At the same time, familiar pressure points such as capacity and vulnerability, marriage and international mobility, and post-death disputes, are appearing in new configurations that demand earlier, holistic intervention.

Family law & intergenerational wealth transfer

Nuptial settlements

When it comes to intergenerational wealth transfer, the potential impact of divorce on family money is often

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

WSP Solicitors—David Ashcroft & Jessica O’Shea

WSP Solicitors—David Ashcroft & Jessica O’Shea

Commercial property and child law teams expand with senior hires

Duxton Hill Chambers—Lucas Bastin KC & Joshua Hiew

Duxton Hill Chambers—Lucas Bastin KC & Joshua Hiew

Set expands London and Singapore offering with senior international disputes hires

Gilson Gray—Gregor Duthie & Stephen Forsyth

Gilson Gray—Gregor Duthie & Stephen Forsyth

Firm strengthens real estate and litigation teams with partner promotions

NEWS
Uber has built a formidable strategy for insulating itself from liability for drivers’ conduct, but the legal terrain differs sharply between the US and England and Wales
The Civil Justice Council’s review of Part III of the Solicitors Act 1974 could mark the end of what one commentator calls an ‘outdated’ and overly technical regime governing solicitor-client fee disputes
The House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Act 2026 marks a constitutional watershed by severing the centuries-old link between hereditary titles and automatic membership of the upper chamber
Artificial intelligence, proportionality and public decision-making are under increasing judicial scrutiny, according to the latest public law round-up from Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer
Families relying on informal agreements over property ownership could face costly consequences if disputes arise, the High Court has warned
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