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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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NEWS

The Court of Appeal has slammed the brakes on claimants trying to swap defendants after limitation has expired. In Adcamp LLP v Office Properties and BDB Pitmans v Lee [2026] EWCA Civ 50, it overturned High Court rulings that had allowed substitutions under s 35(6)(b) of the Limitation Act 1980, reports Sarah Crowther of DAC Beachcroft in this week's NLJ

Cheating in driving tests is surging—and courts are responding firmly. Writing in NLJ this week, Neil Parpworth of De Montfort Law School charts a rise in impersonation and tech-assisted fraud, with 2,844 attempts recorded in a year
As AI-generated ‘deepfake’ images proliferate, the law may already have the tools to respond. In NLJ this week, Jon Belcher of Excello Law argues that such images amount to personal data processing under UK GDPR
In a striking financial remedies ruling, the High Court cut a wife’s award by 40% for coercive and controlling behaviour. Writing in NLJ this week, Chris Bryden and Nicole Wallace of 4 King’s Bench Walk analyse LP v MP [2025] EWFC 473
A €60.9m award to Kylian Mbappé has refocused attention on football’s controversial ‘ethics bonus’ clauses. Writing in NLJ this week, Dr Estelle Ivanova of Valloni Attorneys at Law examines how such provisions sit within French labour law
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