In an era of increasing wealth complexities, regulatory scrutiny, and global mobility, the legal needs of high-net-worth individuals (HNIs), ultra-HNIs, family offices, business promoters, and closely held enterprises demand a highly bespoke and multidisciplinary approach. KNM & Partners’ Private Client Practice is designed to address these distinct and sensitive requirements, offering discreet, strategic, and comprehensive legal counsel across personal wealth, family business, and cross-border legal matters.
The Firm’s private client team leverages the firm’s deep capabilities in corporate law, tax advisory, and dispute resolution to deliver end-to-end solutions that balance personal priorities with evolving legal, tax, and commercial realities. From succession planning and inter-generational wealth transfer to family governance, dispute management, and global tax structuring, the Firm works closely with its clients to safeguard their personal, familial, and business interests across jurisdictions.
The Firm recognises the intersection of personal wealth with corporate holdings, family enterprises, trusts, and private investment vehicles, ensuring its advice is holistic, practical, and future-proof. The Firm is frequently engaged to support family-owned businesses in restructuring equity holdings, drafting family constitutions, establishing trusts, and resolving shareholder or family disputes, with utmost sensitivity and confidentiality.
In the context of growing global assets, cross-border residency, and international succession challenges, the Firm’s practice is equipped to advise on international estate planning, offshore trusts, tax-efficient structures, and repatriation strategies, ensuring strict compliance with Indian and international laws, including FEMA, taxation treaties, and foreign reporting obligations.
Whether assisting clients with family business succession, philanthropy structuring, dispute resolution, or tax-efficient investment strategies, the Firm brings a client-first, solutions-focused approach, underpinned by legal precision, commercial insight, and personal attention. The Firm remains a trusted legal partner to several Indian and global families, enabling them to preserve, protect, and transition their wealth seamlessly and efficiently.
Competencies
The Firm advises family-run businesses on restructuring ownership, equity consolidation, and succession planning through family constitutions, shareholder agreements, family councils, and exit mechanisms, ensuring long-term stability and harmony.
The Firm assists in drafting wills, creating family settlements, and establishing domestic and offshore private trusts, discretionary trusts, and charitable trusts, ensuring smooth intergenerational transfer of wealth.
Providing comprehensive personal tax advisory services, the Firm assists with income tax planning, capital gains, gift tax, inheritance planning (where applicable), and disclosure of offshore assets, ensuring compliance with both Indian and foreign tax regimes.
The Firm represents clients in complex family disputes, will contests, trust administration disputes, shareholder conflicts, partition suits, and offer mediation and arbitration support for amicable resolutions.
The Firm assists clients with global assets, dual residency, and cross-border family structures, advising on estate planning, tax structuring, and compliance with FEMA, RBI, and other regulatory requirements.
The Firm’s services include establishing and managing charitable foundations, trusts, and Section 8 companies, ensuring compliance with Indian charity laws, FCRA regulations, and international philanthropic frameworks.
The Firm supports private clients in direct investments, startup funding, private equity participation, joint ventures, and transaction structuring, ensuring alignment with their personal, tax, and estate objectives.
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