All in the Family – Introducing Family Owned Life Insurance™ (aka FOLI™)
Family Affair - Introducing Family Office Life Annuity (FOLA)
NGE On Demand: Insurance and Indemnity Issues for Family Offices with Angela Elbert
Family Offices and PE: Can't We All Get Along
Podcast: Key ESG Considerations for Family Offices and Foundations
Partner Jon Forster and Of Counsel John DeStefano will discuss legacy management and how to optimize client outcomes for successful families by using artificial intelligence and BakerHostetler’s fintech application, FinClar....more
Generally speaking, family offices are established by families with complex and varying interests to manage investments and provide other services to family members, most commonly associated with business holdings. Family...more
McDermott’s Family Office Symposium 2025 brought together more than 400 single-family office executives and industry leaders to uncover new opportunities, exchange best practices, and strengthen relationships. Focused on the...more
Across the globe, second and third generations are inheriting significant wealth and with it, the opportunity to professionalise how their family manages, governs and grows that wealth. Many are establishing dynamic,...more
In our previous blog post on the 2025 Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning, we highlighted the concept of purpose trusts, a conference topic involving unique planning and charitable opportunities. In this second post of...more
As is our tradition each January, several Warner attorneys attended the annual Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning, the country’s most well-respected educational event for professionals working in the trusts and estates...more
As family offices continue to adapt to economic, financial, and technological changes, several ongoing developments are giving family offices plenty consider heading into 2025, including gift and estate tax exemptions, which...more
This session of the Private Client West Cost Forum 2024 discussed best avenues for family offices and their advisors to consider when managing a complex post-death administration, including steps to address and anticipate...more
The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionized various industries, offering efficiency, accuracy, and convenience. In the realm of estate planning and family offices, the integration of AI technologies has...more
Bermuda is a British Overseas Territory with a parliamentary legislature and has been largely self-governing since 1620. It has economic, legal and political stability which attracts international businesses and...more
Private companies and their owners face ever-evolving challenges as the market sees new regulations, new deal trends, and new risks in 2024. Below are 10 issues that the owners and leaders of privately held companies should...more
Welcome to the festive edition of the Conyers Private Client & Trust Bulletin, where we update on recent matters of interest from our jurisdictions of Bermuda, BVI and the Cayman Islands. This edition combines the...more
McDermott’s Private Client Practice led interactive discussions on a broad range of topics pertinent to ultra-high-net-worth families, their family office representatives and other advisors at our Private Client West Coast...more
Across industries, professionals are talking about the opportunity and utility of artificial intelligence (AI). In the estate planning and family office realms, two fields that require a distinctly human touch, advisors...more
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is computer software that can create new content or data by tracking patterns from existing data. AI is dominating public discourse: across all media, all industries, and all segments...more
Thaw out with McDermott’s Tax and Private Client teams during our first (of many) Boston Private Client Roundtables where attendees can reconnect with peers in the tax, private client and wealth advisory space in the city. We...more
Join us this November for McDermott Will & Emery’s Private Client West Coast Forum. At these complimentary programs, experienced McDermott partners will lead discussions on a broad range of topics pertinent to...more
The All in the Family podcast introduces Family Owned Life Insurance™ or (FOLI™). FOLI™ is a specialty use of group private placement life insurance for Family Offices. FOLI™ is a powerful product that will allow Family...more
FOLA - Family Office Life Annuity, this solution utilized a private placement group variable deferred group contract, which provides for tax deferral. It is a powerful wealth accumulation technique. FOLA policy has customized...more
Perhaps you are tired of reading that I grew up in the Panama Canal Zone, but it is one of the last bastions of American colonialism. Personally, I do not like the word “colonialism” because it inevitably conjures up negative...more
March 2022 Interest Rates for GRATs, Sales to Defective Grantor Trusts, Intra-Family Loans and Split-Interest Charitable Trusts....more
Join McDermott presenters Timothy Halleron, Richard Lang and Carlyn McCaffrey as they describe six not-so-obvious planning ideas. In certain situations these creative planning techniques may be more effective than the usual...more
As we noted in a previous family office series blog post, “if you’ve seen one family office, you’ve seen one family office.” There is no standard legal structure for family offices. The types and number of legal entities used...more