Dacheng Law Offices is recognised for its extensive experience in wealth management, encompassing areas from family trusts to international tax regulations and private banking. The firm offers comprehensive services in family and corporate wealth preservation and inheritance, especially for Chinese banks, financial institutions, and ultra-high-net-worth clients both within and outside of China. The practice, co-led by Jacky Wang, Lijun Huang, Naidong (Michael) Ma, Jing Xue, Jun Zhang and Xiaochu Zhang, offers a wide spectrum of specialised services. Huang is an expert in family wealth inheritance, asset isolation, and second-generation enterprise inheritance planning, with proficiency in marriage wealth protection and family trust consultancy. Ma focuses on global wealth management and inheritance including thorough due diligence investigations of marriage property worldwide, as well as expert arrangements for wealth inheritance. Xue offers innovative services including family trust, family business governance, and equity inheritance, while Jun Zhang excels in family governance, ownership restructuring, and both onshore and offshore family trust planning. Xiaochu Zhang’s forte is representing Chinese tycoons and major financial institutions, especially in planning cross-border assets and inheritance.

Specialising in cross-border private wealth management, Haiwen & Partners is notable for its expertise in offshore trust matters. With a focus on holistic wealth planning, the practice employs a diverse range of planning tools to craft tailored solutions for clients, including PRC onshore trusts, wills, pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements, and nominee holding arrangements. The firm has also increasingly ventured into charitable trust projects to support clients’ philanthropic efforts. Leading the department is Han Bao, a seasoned advisor to high-profile Chinese business owners and foreign investors with significant interests in China. Her extensive experience covers the full spectrum of family trust projects, from establishment to restructuring and termination, covering diverse jurisdictions including Hong Kong, Singapore, and the Cayman Islands. Huijuan Sun complements the team by delivering advice to private clients in both contentious and non-contentious inheritance and matrimonial matters.

King & Wood Mallesons delivers a robust suite of legal services to high-net-worth individuals and families from China. Spanning various areas such as marriage, taxation, and contentious matters, the firm’s comprehensive offerings encompass investment management, succession planning, charitable planning, and tax planning, among others. Leading the team is Hui Wang, whose experience includes assisting family enterprises with structuring wealth security and inheritance, establishing family offices and funds, and formulating family charters. Hui Feng brings a wealth of expertise in marriage and family inheritance, particularly in family assets management, marriage crisis response, and inheritance disputes. Peng Wu stands out in litigation and arbitration related to family and private wealth, handling cases concerning divorce, inheritance, and property distribution disputes. Hui Zheng provides valuable insights into cross-border family wealth management, with experience in setting up trust structures for global assets and resolving trust-related disputes, while Yongqing (Bill) Ye aids high-net-worth individuals in planning and managing their wealth by providing tax advice.

JunZeJun Law Offices provides a full range of family wealth management and inheritance services for high-net-worth customers, including equity top-level design, family trust establishment, family tax planning, and family property heritage planning. The private wealth practice is led by Xiangchun Zhong, a financial asset management, family wealth management, and dispute resolution expert, and Yinan Zhang. Xiuxiu Liang specialises in traditional trust business, asset management, private equity and family trust, and Haizhou Huang provides family wealth and asset planning legal services such as will inheritance, domestic and overseas asset planning and design, and living trusts.

The boutique firm Shanghai Hairuo Partners specialises in family and private wealth management, providing legal services to clients in the areas of family wealth inheritance planning, cross-border asset allocation, corporate equity structure planning and family trust, as well as complex family dispute resolution. The practice is led by founding partner Weiyi Wu, who brings rich litigation experience, including knowledge in marriage and inheritance disputes. Shanjing Lu focuses on civil and commercial dispute resolution as well as family and private wealth management, with expertise in complex cross-border matrimonial and succession litigation, cross-border premarital estate planning, trust and enterprise governance.

Yingke Law Firm’s private wealth offering covers a broad spectrum of areas including marriage, inheritance, insurance, trust, tax planning, and equity structure. The practice’s capabilities extend to cross-border private wealth management and property isolation, as well as private wealth litigation and dispute resolution. Qin Du leads the practice, bringing expertise in dispute resolution, wealth management, and inheritance planning and implementation. Wei Li adds experience in the establishment and implementation of family trusts, along with knowledge in wealth planning inheritance, while Xi Chen hones his focus on equity family trusts, family business equity inheritance and reorganization, equity incentives, fiscal and taxation review, and dispute resolution related to private wealth. Meanwhile, Xiaojing Cao is adept at handling family wealth management and inheritance matters including family business governance and planning.