Lord Andrew Hay
Chairman to the Charles Russell Speechlys Private Office, Private Office
Our Private Office team works to help you achieve everything you require from an international legal platform focused on the intersection of personal, family and business.
Our professional and experienced team of non-lawyers have relationship management expertise having advised significant families across global finance, investments, real estate, development and land management. This pioneering approach for the legal sector, and our obsession with outstanding client service, sets us apart.
We observe the landscape from your perspective and support you in achieving your ambitions however intricate.
Our Firm has a long and proud reputation for providing outstanding legal advice across the private capital spectrum of global individuals, families and their businesses; family offices; serial entrepreneurs and investors.
The Private Office underpins this strength. The time we spend with you is free of charge – it’s our investment in you - and demonstrates our absolute commitment to forging meaningful, strategic and long-term relationships.

Nowhere else have a relationship team been so focused on understanding the various dimensions of our personal & business interests to the end benefit of both client and firm viewing one another clearly through a single lens."
The Private Office will attract new global families to the Firm who value broad conversations across sectors, territories and generations."
The Charles Russell Speechlys Private Office helps bring the collective wisdom of our whole Firm into play, to benefit you.
Hear from our Chairman, Lord Andrew Hay, as he discusses the genesis of the Charles Russell Speechlys Private Office.
Lord Andrew Hay
Chairman to the Charles Russell Speechlys Private Office, Private Office
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