Lord Andrew Hay
Chairman to the Charles Russell Speechlys Private Office, Private Office
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Private Office
Understanding you is our priority.
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."
Private Office Vision
The Charles Russell Speechlys Private Office helps bring the collective wisdom of our whole Firm into play, to benefit you.
Voice of our Chairman
Hear from our Chairman, Lord Andrew Hay, as he discusses the genesis of the Charles Russell Speechlys Private Office.
Meet the private office team
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Rob Garrett
Advisor to the Charles Russell Speechlys Private Office, Private Office
Our thinking
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Family Offices Across Generations: Purpose, Trends, and Key Considerations
Sangna Chauhan
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Entrepreneurship, Investment and Risk: Key Insights for Family Offices
Marcus Yorke-Long
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Understanding Share Classes in Family Investment Companies
Edward Robinson
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Avoid Airport Anxiety: Check your passport can be used for travel to the UK – Rules change significantly on 25 February 2026, especially dual-nationals
Paul McCarthy
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Marcus Yorke-Long comments in Spears on the mediation of family wealth disputes
Marcus Yorke-Long
In the Press
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Paramount launches hostile bid for the entirety of Warner Bros
Grace Hudson
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A very British benefit – More Queuing: Introducing the Europe wide Entry/Exit System from October 2025
Paul McCarthy
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Law Commission’s 14th Programme of Reform: the future of Trust Arbitration?
Maddie Dunn
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Major Italian National newspaper La Repubblica quotes Marcus Yorke-Long on succession in family businesses
Marcus Yorke-Long
In the Press
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Mastering Claims Against Estates: A Guide to Debt Enforcement in Switzerland
Remo Wagner
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New EU regulations for importing cultural property into the EU – what art collectors need to know
Suzanne Marriott
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When is 20% not 20%? The real impact of the proposed changes to business property relief on trading companies
Sarah Wray
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - the inheritance tax Consultation on agricultural and business property
Sarah Wray
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Under my umbr-ETA, ESTA, eh eh… FAO: international visitors to UK from 8 January 2025 – avoid rain and flight anxiety
Paul McCarthy
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Computer says no [update] - border chaos delayed until April 2025
Paul McCarthy
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