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Last year, the Gibraltar Government introduced the Private Trust Company Act 2015, which will no doubt prove an especially attractive proposition for Family Offices.

Kylie and Jason, a married couple from Australia, have two young children, and hold two classes of assets: a collection of wines and an overseas holiday let.

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.

The months of summer were always referred to as the "silly season", when the British press struggled to keep their readers' attention with a succession of frivolous news stories.

Gibraltar's legal system is based on the common law and statute law of England and therefore embodies the advantages and security of English company and trust law.

Last month’s column may have raised reader’s anxiety levels by emphasising the importance of forward planning – in particular the preparation of a will – and setting out some of the problems that could arise from a failure to undertake this simple, but crucial, step.

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

The underlying story dates back more than two decades. On the same day in May 2001, Wang Yung-Ching, the founder of the Formosa Plastics Group in Taiwan ("FPG") and his younger brother Wang Yung-Tsai...

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?

Gibraltar's Private Foundations Act came into force on 11 April 2017.