Private Client Practice

As personal wealth in China has grown rapidly over the last few decades, more attention has been paid to the preservation and orderly growth of personal wealth and estate planning. JunHe’s private client team helps clients optimize the corporate governance of family business and the management of assets. We help build a risk prevention mechanism for individual, family and corporate assets and design customized estate planning. JunHe’s experienced team offers advice in effectively prevent and respond to disputes regarding marriage, family and inheritance.


Our Team

 

Our private client team consists of partners and associates from many different areas. Our valued clients benefit from the rich experience of our team of more than 1,000 professionals specializing in corporate and M&A, capital markets, banking and finance, compliance, tax law, labor law, intellectual properties and dispute resolution throughout our 12 offices within and outside China. We collaborate with leading professional service agencies in private client practice from various overseas countries and regions. We leverage our rich international experience and our thorough understanding of Chinese law to provide full and comprehensive domestic and overseas wealth management and inheritance solutions.


Core Fields


Business and Family Wealth

  • Formulation of family constitutions

  • Advising on risk prevention for individuals, families and companies

  • Financing and pre-IPO compliance planning of family businesses

  • Designing corporate control structures and preventing disputes

  • Designing equity ownership structures and optimizing corporate governance

  • Designing incentives mechanisms for executive officers and key employees

  • Planning the establishment and operation of family offices


Trusts and Foundations

  • Planning and designing trust structures

  • Designing Pre-IPO trusts

  • Establishing and managing offshore trusts and foreign foundations

  • Arranging insurance trusts

  • Establishing and managing equity trusts and stock trusts

  • Reviewing and optimizing family trust restructures

 

Family Wealth Planning

  • Wealth management planning for the marriage of high-net-worth individuals and designing prenuptial agreements

  • Heritage management

  • Cross-border estate structuring

  • Arranging intergenerational family wealth transfers

  • Supporting the establishment and execution of foreign wills

  • Executing estate administration and distribution

  • Arranging long-term protection for special family members (elderly and minors)


Taxation

  • Analysis of tax implications for transaction structures and operating models

  • Risk assessment and compliance advice on corporate and individual tax

  • Design and optimization of compliant tax structures

 

Investment and Transactions

  • Private investment

  • Purchase and sale of real estate and artworks and related financing arrangements

  • Purchase and sale of airplanes and related financing arrangements

 

Philanthropic Planning

  • Structuring charitable giving and establishing charitable organizations

 

Dispute Resolution

  • Marriage and family disputes

  • Inheritance disputes

  • Company and enterprise-related disputes

  • Family trust disputes

  • Cross-border dispute resolution

  • Recognition and enforcement of civil judgments and decisions made by foreign courts