Asset Protection Planning Lawyers
PBL Law Group is the premier law firm for engineering sophisticated, multi-layered structures to protect your wealth.
- Bespoke Asset Protection Architecture
- Risk Compartmentalisation & Firewalling
- Litigation & Creditor Protection
- Resilient Multi-Generational Structures
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Who Our Asset Protection Planning Lawyers Help
Entrepreneurs & Business Owners
We engineer legal firewalls to shield your personal wealth from your business risks & creditors.
High-Risk Professionals
We create resilient structures to protect your personal assets from professional liability & litigation.
Multi-Generational Families
We design multi-layered trusts to shield your family's core capital from external threats for generations.
Post-Liquidity Event
We create a legal fortress to protect your newly liquid wealth from unforeseen claims & litigation.
Legacy Planners
We use sophisticated trusts to firewall your children's inheritance from their future matrimonial or commercial risks.
End-to-End Asset Protection Planning Services
Bespoke Legal Architecture
We design a multi-layered structure of trusts & corporate vehicles to create a legal fortress around your family’s capital.
Business Asset Firewalling
We engineer a legal firewall to shield your personal wealth from the risks & creditors of your business activities.
Inheritance Protection
We use bespoke trusts to firewall your children’s inheritance from their future matrimonial, creditor or litigation risks.
Pre-Litigation Strategy
We structure your affairs to deter opportunistic litigation & legally protect your assets before a claim is ever made.
Structure Optimisation
We conduct a rigorous stress-test of your current asset protection plan to identify & fortify any weaknesses.
Global Asset Protection
We design international structures that legally shield your assets by placing them beyond the reach of local jurisdictional threats.
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Our Asset Protection Planning Process
1
Global Risk Assessment
We conduct a deep audit of your personal, family & business affairs to identify your unique asset protection vulnerabilities.
2
Bespoke Architecture Design
Our experts design a multi-layered legal architecture of trusts & corporate vehicles to firewall your assets from identified risks.
3
Flawless Implementation
We execute the strategy, drafting all legal documents & managing all asset transfers to build your legal fortress.
4
Ongoing Counsel & Review
We provide ongoing counsel to stress-test your structure & ensure it remains resilient as your life & the legal landscape evolve.
Elite Counsel for Resilient Wealth
Reactive legal advice is a failed strategy for UHNW families. It waits for the threat to materialise, which is already too late. Protecting significant wealth requires a proactive, architectural defence designed to make you an unattractive target from the outset.
PBL Law Group provides this elite, forward-looking counsel. Our multi-disciplinary team—led by Raea Khan, Anthony Watson, George Halikiotis, & Mark Lea—unites leading expertise in legacy, tax, commercial law & trust architecture. We engineer a sophisticated, multi-layered legal fortress designed to preserve your capital for generations.
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Why Choose Our Asset Protection Planning Lawyers
1
Architectural Approach
We don’t just offer legal advice. We engineer a bespoke, multi-layered legal fortress to proactively defend your family’s capital.
2
Multi-Disciplinary Defence
Our integrated team of tax, commercial & trust experts ensures your asset protection structure has no weak points.
3
Pre-Emptive Strategy
We go beyond defence, structuring your affairs to pre-emptively neutralise threats & place you in a position of strength.
4
Generational Resilience
We design dynamic structures that not only protect your wealth today, but are built to endure & adapt across generations.
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We provide expert private client advice internationally. Meet with our team at our CBD offices in Singapore or Sydney.
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Firewall Your Wealth
As a business owner, a single commercial failure or lawsuit can cross the line & attack your family home & personal legacy. Without a firewall, everything you have built is exposed.
PBL Law Group engineers this legal firewall. We use a sophisticated structure of trusts & holding companies to legally separate your personal assets from your business risks, ensuring your family’s foundation remains untouchable.
Generational Wealth at Risk
The wealth you pass to your children is dangerously exposed to their future risks—a divorce or lawsuit can see half their inheritance lost. A standard Will offers no protection against these threats.
We build a generational fortress. We use bespoke testamentary trusts to firewall your children’s inheritance, shielding it from their future matrimonial & creditor risks to secure your legacy for your grandchildren.
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A Target on Your Back
Significant wealth makes you a magnet for opportunistic & unmeritorious litigation. Defending these claims costs millions & is a profound invasion of your privacy & a distraction from your life’s work.
Our primary strategy is to make you an unattractive target. We design structures so legally robust & discreet that they act as a powerful deterrent, signalling to potential litigants that any claim will be a long, difficult & unsuccessful fight.
The Single Point of Failure
Many UHNW individuals have a collection of entities, but not a coherent strategy. Without an integrated architecture, a single legal attack can find a weak point & cause a catastrophic failure across your entire structure.
We are the architects of a resilient, integrated defence. We stress-test your existing structures to identify every vulnerability & engineer a single, multi-layered fortress with no single point of failure.
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FAQs for Asset Protection Planning
What is asset protection planning?
It is the proactive, legal structuring of your assets to shield them from future risks, such as creditors, litigation & matrimonial disputes. It involves creating a legal fortress around your wealth before a threat materialises.
Is asset protection legal?
Yes, completely. Proactive asset protection planning uses legitimate, well-established legal structures like trusts & companies to organise your affairs. It is a prudent and necessary strategy for managing risk.
When is it too late to start asset protection?
The ideal time is now, before a specific threat exists. Once a legal claim is made or you are aware of insolvency, transferring assets can be legally challenged & unwound by a court.
How does a trust protect assets?
A trust legally separates the ownership of an asset (held by the trustee) from its benefit (enjoyed by the beneficiaries). As you no longer personally own the asset, it is shielded from your personal creditors & legal claims.
What is "firewalling"?
Firewalling is the core concept of asset protection. It means using legal structures to create a firewall between your high-risk activities (like a business) & your safe personal assets (like your family home).
What are the main threats to my wealth?
The primary threats are commercial risks (creditor claims from a business), personal litigation (lawsuits from accidents or disputes) & matrimonial property claims (from your own or your children’s divorce).
What is "claw-back" risk?
This is a legal risk where a court can “claw back” assets that were transferred to a trust or another entity if the transfer was done to defeat creditors. This is why proactive, expert planning is essential.
What is a "multi-layered" structure?
This is an advanced strategy that uses a combination of different entities (e.g., a trust owning shares in a company) to create multiple layers of legal separation. This provides a far higher degree of protection than a single entity.
Is putting assets in my spouse's name good protection?
No. This is a common but flawed strategy. It exposes the assets to your spouse’s personal risks & offers very little protection in the event of a matrimonial dispute.
What does a "stress-test" of my structure involve?
A stress-test is a rigorous review of your existing companies & trusts. It is designed to identify legal weak points, compliance issues & vulnerabilities that could be exploited in a legal challenge.
Does asset protection work for international assets?
Yes. International asset protection often involves using structures in premier foreign jurisdictions with strong privacy & trust laws. This can provide an even higher level of protection from local threats.
How does asset protection differ from tax planning?
Asset protection is focused on shielding wealth from legal threats like creditors. Tax planning is focused on legally optimising tax. An effective wealth plan, like one from PBL Law Group, must integrate both.
Can a structure protect me from personal guarantees?
If you have already signed a personal guarantee, it is very difficult to protect against. The strategy is to avoid signing them where possible & to ensure your core personal assets are already firewalled before you do.
Can I still control my assets within a trust?
Yes. You can retain a high degree of control over the assets by holding a key role, such as the director of the corporate trustee or the appointor of the trust.
Will my structure seem aggressive to a court?
No. A well-designed, proactively established structure is viewed as prudent financial planning. It is the last-minute, reactive transfers that are viewed with suspicion by the courts.
How Our International Private Client Lawyers Can Assist You
Cross‑Border Tax & Residency
We architect & defend your optimal global tax & residency strategy, turning complexity into a powerful strategic advantage.
Wealth Protection & Privacy
We engineer multi-layered legal fortresses to shield your wealth & privacy from the complex risks of a transparent world.
Investment & Growth Structures
We structure the institutional-grade architecture to professionally deploy, manage & grow your private capital.
Global Mobility & International Residency
We develop the legal & operational framework for a life of global freedom, built on a foundation of absolute security.
International Estate Planning & Legacy
We architect the legal framework to protect your family, business & wealth across borders & generations.
Family Office for UHNWI
We provide the elite counsel to transform your wealth from a collection of assets into an enduring family enterprise.
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