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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

Keystone Law—Milena Szuniewicz-Wenzel & Ian Hopkinson

Keystone Law—Milena Szuniewicz-Wenzel & Ian Hopkinson

International arbitration team strengthened by double partner hire

Coodes Solicitors—Pam Johns, Rachel Pearce & Bradley Kaine

Coodes Solicitors—Pam Johns, Rachel Pearce & Bradley Kaine

Firm celebrates trio holding senior regional law society and junior lawyers division roles

Michelman Robinson—Sukhi Kaler

Michelman Robinson—Sukhi Kaler

Partner joins commercial and business litigation team in London

NEWS
The government has pledged to ‘move fast’ to protect children from harm caused by artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots, and could impose limits on social media as early as the summer
All eyes will be on the Court of Appeal (or its YouTube livestream) next week as it sits to consider the controversial Mazur judgment
An NHS Foundation Trust breached a consultant’s contract by delegating an investigation into his knowledge of nurse Lucy Letby’s case
Draft guidance for schools on how to support gender-questioning pupils provides ‘more clarity’, but headteachers may still need legal advice, an education lawyer has said
Litigation funder Innsworth Capital, which funded behemoth opt-out action Merricks v Mastercard, can bring a judicial review, the High Court ruled last week
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