Business Matters Edition 32: Mike Nicholls (Video)

Family offices often operate with structures established years ago, built on assumptions that may no longer align with current realities. As families become more international, assets grow more complex, and generational expectations shift, the question emerges: would you design your structure the same way today?

Sophisticated families are consolidating fragmented asset holdings into Gibraltar private funds, creating unified governance structures that survive generational transitions. This shift addresses the limitations of patchwork arrangements while maintaining international compliance and providing forward optionality for wealth management.

In an increasingly volatile world, wealthy international families are prioritising asset protection, succession planning and cross-border flexibility more than ever.

A lot of us will have had the feeling of having spent the last 20 years on a fast-paced treadmill. Life has been a constant ‘busy'.

This analysis would subsequently inform what the appropriate treatment of the token should be from a legal, regulatory, accounting and tax perspective.

As I get older, I confess that, on occasion, I hanker after the days when I used to work in a bank.

At this time of year, I generally take the chance to bid a none-too-fond farewell to a cold, wet winter, acknowledge the promise of spring, and start to consider the prospect of the long, lazy summer...

Last week our own Neelai Patel spoke at an LB Business Network event organised and hosted by the law firm Howard Kennedy, looking at the question of whether the UK will be a more attractive destination...

Gibraltar continues to develop and diversify its services with the creation of the 'Private Foundation Act 2017' on Thursday 6 April.

Another factor in our spring clean is to consider the impact of a volatile exchange rate.