Our Firm Expansion
Our footprint in Southeast Asia
In July 2023, we strengthened our footprint in Asia with the launch of an office in Singapore.
Singapore is a burgeoning international financial centre and a key hub for businesses and investors across Southeast Asia and the wider Asia Pacific region. With our expertise in private capital, the new office represents an exciting opportunity to build our practice in Asia.
Led by Jeffrey Lee, a Partner who has worked in our London and Hong Kong offices, and supported by Head of Asia Simon Green, the office provides our private capital clients and their family offices with the global connections to protect and grow their wealth.
Our footprint in Southeast Asia
In July 2023, we strengthened our footprint in Asia with the launch of an office in Singapore.
Singapore is a burgeoning international financial centre and a key hub for businesses and investors across Southeast Asia and the wider Asia Pacific region. With our expertise in private capital, the new office represents an exciting opportunity to build our practice in Asia.
Led by Jeffrey Lee, a Partner who has worked in our London and Hong Kong offices, and supported by Head of Asia Simon Green, the office provides our private capital clients and their family offices with the global connections to protect and grow their wealth.
Our footprint in Southeast Asia
In July 2023, we strengthened our footprint in Asia with the launch of an office in Singapore.
Singapore is a burgeoning international financial centre and a key hub for businesses and investors across Southeast Asia and the wider Asia Pacific region. With our expertise in private capital, the new office represents an exciting opportunity to build our practice in Asia.
Led by Jeffrey Lee, a Partner who has worked in our London and Hong Kong offices, and supported by Head of Asia Simon Green, the office provides our private capital clients and their family offices with the global connections to protect and grow their wealth.
“Internationally, Singapore continues to rapidly climb the rankings as a hub for global business and there is so much going on in the country for businesses across all sectors,” says Jeff. “We have a number of long-standing friends and contacts in the region; indeed, many of our existing clients have had a presence in Singapore for years, so it is tremendously exciting to have established a physical presence there, so we continue to ensure we can provide all our clients—old and new—with the best possible service.”
Jeffrey Lee
Partner, Head of Singapore Office
The office in Singapore is a Foreign Law Practice and the range of legal services includes:
- Wealth structuring & planning
- Funds
- Family Office establishment and governance
- Transactional services for investments
- M&A
- Real Estate investment & management (including Hotels & Hospitality)
- International arbitration.
As Jeff and Simon grow their teams, they will be closely integrated across our Singapore and Hong Kong offices. The Singapore office joins our 12 offices across the UK, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, providing a gateway to our whole firm and serving our clients’ cross-border legal needs.
Private Office launches to drive forward our private capital strategy and support the aspirations of our global clients
The Private Office officially launched in October 2023 following the arrival of Marcus Yorke-Long who joined to lead this unique proposition following over 15 years covering private capital groups’ banking, financing and wealth management requirements. Our growing team of six are guided by Lord Andrew Hay, Chairman, who brings his 40 years’ experience advising global UHNW families across all property asset classes in 60 countries.
The team invest time in understanding our existing and future clients’ strategic ambitions and aligning these with our deep and broad legal expertise. Our specialist team is not populated by lawyers, meaning their value proposition extends ‘beyond the law’ and transforms the traditional client narrative.
This client-focused initiative reinforces our strategic objective to be the leading legal adviser to global private capital clients, entrepreneurs, families, and their businesses – and is a clear differentiator for our Firm.
Marcus and Andrew work closely with Camilla Sadler, who is the fifth generation of her family to work at the Firm, and leads the team's relationships with our global families, together with Private Office Executive, Carleen Wood. The team are also present in Asia, supported by Rob Garrett from Singapore, which further underpins the Firm’s commitment to serving global private capital.
“With vast amounts of private capital emerging across the globe, and the strong connection between families’ private and commercial interests, the pioneering Charles Russell Speechlys Private Office team helps us build a detailed picture of our clients’ strategic ambitions across markets and countries. This enables us, as a Firm, to respond to the changing needs of our clients across both traditional private client advisory work, as well as the Firm’s transactional and contentious teams. It helps bring the collective wisdom of our whole firm into play, to the benefit of our clients, reinforced by outstanding and proactive client service.”
Bart Peerless
Senior Partner
The highlights below demonstrate successful work recently won following strategic engagement with our Private Office:
1. Engaging new clients:
- Established UK-based family office embarking on a significant investment a new jurisdiction
- Global Family seeking holistic advice to optimise tax & ownership succession across a global asset pool, plus the establishment of a UK family office
- Next generation Asian family members requiring complex succession advice including advice across the financing & planning needs of a UK landed estate
2. Supporting existing relationships:
- A long-standing listed client role evolved into us supporting a majority shareholder with their personal wealth planning; real estate, planning and construction advice and dispute resolution
- Proactive sharing of corporate advisory & structuring expertise helped support an entrepreneur who’d previously only engaged us for private client advice
3. Advisory community:
- Since October 2023 we’ve had over 100 requests from advisor groups looking to partner in support of the private capital market
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