Educational Partners

2024 Educational Partners

The Dentons Family Office (DFO) team offers clients the experience and insight of over 350 colleagues who work with prominent family office enterprises to find cutting-edge solutions to a myriad of legal and business issues. The DFO global team has gained tremendous traction in the family office community as an innovator in fulfilling the accelerated demand for such legal services.

Dentons offers integrated services to provide families with a strategic and holistic approach to family governance, risk management, security and more. They partner with clients to navigate matters in multiple jurisdictions across 6 continents taking advantage of our global, full-service capability. Depending on the client’s situation, they create a “team of teams” that includes lawyers from our comprehensive practice areas and locations to provide the needed expertise and geographic presence. DFO clients benefit from 12,00+ lawyers, professionals and staff in 160+ locations globally. Our 350+ DFO lawyers and professionals provide seamless service and guidance to families across numerous issues. From cybersecurity, real estate, corporate and investments to ESG, philanthropy, global mobility and family office governance, they bring to each situation a value-oriented philosophy and an innovative approach, viewed from the unique perspective of each client’s personal and business objectives.

Clients turn to our innovative DFO team for scenario planning, solutions, connections and deep insights into the current trends.  Our creation of the DFO group has allowed the most mobile stratum of the international community a “one-stop-shop” to service their legal and business needs in an innovative fashion, as demanded in today’s marketplace. From curated survey reports used to benchmark a family office among peers to podcastswhitepapers and articles that help family offices navigate the tumultuous 2023 economic, business and legal landscape to cutting-edge ESG as well as diversity and inclusion initiatives, our DFO group brings new ideas to the forefront for the benefit of our clients.

 

Mission:
  • Provide an intellectual framework, understanding and organization of family wealth management content
  • Educate advisors and family offices on how best to support evolving UHNW families
  • Provide thought leadership, insights and resources to advisors and family offices
  • Promote best practices, provide professional development and support sustainable, positive change within our industry
  • Foster an equitable, collaborative and safe learning environment within the wealth management industry