Citywealth has unveiled its Top 30 Transatlantic Select: Advisors and Managers 2026, naming the lawyers, tax specialists and wealth managers who serve families with assets on both sides of the Atlantic.
Goldman Sachs has pulled its private-market activities into one unit aimed at family offices who want direct stakes in late-stage private companies, plus a way to trade them.
John Healey became the UK's sixth chancellor in just over four years on 20 July 2026. Advisers want an end to constant speculation on inheritance tax and pensions.
NNS Holding, the private family office of Egyptian billionaire Nassef Sawiris, has lifted its combined stake in OCI Global above 55% as its all-cash bid to take the chemicals group private advances.
Jeroen Vetter has left the invite-only single-family-office club SFO Alliance under seven months after taking the top job, the second CEO change in under a year. Founder Lex van Dam remains executive chairman.
Sotheby's reported $4.4bn in sales for the first half of 2026, its strongest six months, with auction sales of $3.4bn, record private sales of $826m and estate collections selling through at 96 per cent.
From 15 July 2026 the Stonehage Fleming website is offline and the business trades as Corient, ending one of the oldest brands in European family office advisory.
Spear's reports that Victoria Matthews, managing director and head of UK family offices at BlackRock, has left the firm, with no replacement announced.
The Boise-based multi-family office is adding an Austin firm with about $4 billion in assets, its first purchase since the 2024 Grey Street Capital deal.
On 13 July 2026 the Court of Appeal dismissed HMRC's appeal in Elborne, holding that a 2003 home loan scheme kept a £1.8m family home outside the estate for inheritance tax.
The largest IPO in history, with Anthropic and OpenAI expected to follow, is creating suddenly wealthy employees in numbers the family office world has not handled before.
A son who gave up his career to care for his mother is suing his father over the family wealth. The case shows what happens when family promises never make it onto paper.
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