Family offices

One ledger. For the family.

Holding companies, real estate, marketable securities, art, philanthropy, succession plans. One workspace per family group, one cross-advisor record, configurable access for principals, trustees, lawyers, accountants, and next-gen.

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Li Family Office - Succession Plan
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Active
Asset inventory (consolidated)
Tax structuring across jurisdictions
Legal drafting (wills, deeds, shareholder agreements)
Family council review
Implementation & document custody

The problem

What teams deal with today.

No single picture of family wealth

Listed securities at one custodian, private holdings at another, real estate by jurisdiction, philanthropic commitments tracked in someone’s notebook. No consolidated view, no shared reasoning.

Generational transition runs for years

Succession plans span legal, tax, governance, and family-dynamics workstreams over multi-year horizons. Coordination by email loses thread after the first six months.

Vendor sprawl

Lawyer, accountant, tax planner, custodian, philanthropy advisor: each uses their own tools. Information lives in five silos and rarely converges.

Privacy without bespoke tooling

High-net-worth families need per-document access controls, watermarked previews, signed audit trails. Generic SaaS folder permissions don’t meet the bar.

Matter types

Targeted workflows.

Each workflow is a matter template, pre-configured with trigger, stages, and outputs. Start one from the spotlight, the client portal, or a scheduled calendar event.

Investment review

Trigger. Quarterly or annual cadence. Consolidated view across custodians, jurisdictions, asset classes.

Stages.
  1. Position consolidation from custodians and direct holdings
  2. Performance attribution and benchmark comparison
  3. Risk and concentration analysis
  4. Investment committee preparation and minutes
  5. Action items, rebalancing instructions

Outputs. Consolidated investment report, committee minutes, signed rebalancing instructions, action items linked to follow-up matters.

Succession plan

Trigger. Principal instruction or generational transition trigger. Multi-year engagement across legal, tax, governance, and family-dynamics workstreams.

Stages.
  1. Family governance design and family council formation
  2. Asset inventory and ownership mapping
  3. Cross-jurisdiction tax structuring
  4. Legal drafting (wills, deeds, shareholder agreements)
  5. Implementation, signing, document custody

Outputs. Executed succession documents, governance charter, document custody chain, follow-up review matters pre-seeded.

Property transfer

Trigger. Acquisition, disposal, or intra-family transfer of real estate. Often linked to a parent restructure or succession matter.

Stages.
  1. Title and encumbrance search
  2. Tax and duty analysis per jurisdiction
  3. Sale and purchase or gift documentation
  4. Registration and title transfer
  5. Asset ledger update, insurance and management transfer

Outputs. Executed transfer documents, updated title, refreshed asset ledger, insurance and property-management records.

Philanthropy setup

Trigger. Principal instruction to formalise charitable giving. Foundation, donor-advised fund, or direct grant programme.

Stages.
  1. Mission and governance design
  2. Structure selection (foundation, DAF, trust)
  3. Funding mechanism and tax efficiency
  4. Registration and constitution
  5. Grant programme rollout and reporting framework

Outputs. Registered philanthropy vehicle, governance charter, grant programme framework, reporting cadence scheduled.

Holding restructure

Trigger. Tax change, jurisdictional shift, generational planning, or post-acquisition integration.

Stages.
  1. Current structure mapping and tax analysis
  2. Target structure design with counsel sign-off
  3. Implementation sequencing across jurisdictions
  4. Document drafting, signing, and registrar filings
  5. Updated ownership graph and reporting refresh

Outputs. New holding structure documents, registrar filings, updated UBO graph, refreshed reporting templates.

Family council meeting

Trigger. Scheduled cadence (quarterly, biannual, annual) or trigger event (major decision, conflict, succession milestone).

Stages.
  1. Agenda setting and pre-read distribution via portal
  2. Meeting facilitation and minute capture
  3. Resolution drafting and signing
  4. Action item assignment and follow-up matter creation

Outputs. Signed minutes, resolutions of record, follow-up matters spawned with owners and due dates.

Tax structuring

Trigger. New jurisdiction, change in residency, business sale, asset class shift. Often a sub-workstream of a larger restructure.

Stages.
  1. Current position analysis across jurisdictions
  2. Structure options and trade-off memo
  3. Implementation steps, signing, filings
  4. Ongoing compliance calendar refresh

Outputs. Tax structuring memo, executed implementation documents, refreshed compliance calendar.

Trust formation

Trigger. Asset segregation, succession, asset protection, or philanthropy instruction. Often runs as a sub-matter of a larger plan.

Stages.
  1. Settlor KYC and structure selection
  2. Trust deed and ancillary documents
  3. Settlement and asset transfer
  4. Beneficiary records and reporting framework

Outputs. Executed trust deed, settled assets, beneficiary register, recurring trustee-review cadence.

Next-gen onboarding

Trigger. Age threshold, education milestone, or principal-initiated programme. Multi-year engagement across education, governance, and shadowing.

Stages.
  1. Profile setup and access provisioning
  2. Education programme and shadowing schedule
  3. Initial advisory roles and decision exposure
  4. Governance integration (council seat, voting rights)

Outputs. Provisioned access, recorded education path, governance role transitions, shadowing log.

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Workspace shared across every advisor. Lawyers, accountants, tax planners, custodians, family members all on the same record with per-role access.
Audited
Every view, download, comment, and signature recorded. Per-document sensitivity labels enforce who sees and downloads what.
Cross-entity
Holding structures, trusts, philanthropy vehicles, principal residences modelled as linked entities. Ownership graph resolves UBO automatically.

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