Family Office, Founder, and High-Net-Worth Disputes

Sidley has extensive experience handling complex and high-stakes disputes for family offices, founders, and high-net-worth individuals. Our teams advise these clients on a wide range of disputes and crisis management situations, both global and domestic. We frequently act as outside, in-house disputes counsel for clients without a dedicated litigator, advising on our clients’ most high-profile and sensitive matters, such as internal investigations and risk management assessments. We are also well-positioned to advise on sensitive, high-stakes reputational matters for founders and high-net-worth individuals, including defamation disputes. Trust, discretion, and confidentiality are paramount in the work we do, and some of our most successful representations never surface in the public domain. Whether securing results inside or outside of the courtroom, we use our deep knowledge of our family office, founder, and high-net-worth clients to provide bespoke legal services tailored to individual objectives and preferences while taking into account reputation management and legacy.

An Integrated Approach to Disputes

Many family offices operate with the same infrastructure, headcount, diversification of strategies, and sophistication as large institutional asset managers, yet they often lack dedicated in-house litigation counsel to manage the full spectrum of disputes and crises that arise. Sidley’s global platform allows us to bring subject-matter experience to each engagement, positioning us as a trusted partner to in-house and leadership teams and investment professionals. Clients turn to us for both our familiarity with the industry and with each client’s business and for our ability to quickly assemble the right teams when time is of the essence. We bring to bear a depth of dispute capabilities, combined with the strength of our transactional and regulatory practices, to offer an integrated approach that leverages the knowledge of our lawyers across a variety of industries and areas. Our nuanced understanding of our clients, their objectives, and their desired legacy enables us to deliver commercial, strategic advice that protects both their interests and their reputations.