Venable Expands Its Family Offices Services Amid Evolving Client Needs

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Venable LLP announced today the expansion of its Family Offices offering to address the increasingly interconnected legal and business needs of family offices as they take on broader roles in acquiring businesses and real estate, managing investments, overseeing complex assets, and preserving multigenerational wealth.

Family offices are growing in number, scale, and sophistication, with many operating as institutional investors and complex business enterprises. Their legal needs extend well beyond traditional wealth and estate planning to areas such as transactions, governance, real estate, employment, regulatory compliance, philanthropy, cybersecurity, data privacy, and artificial intelligence.

"Family offices require counsel who understand both the family and the enterprise behind it," said Chuck Morton, managing partner of Venable's Baltimore office and veteran corporate attorney. "Venable has been advising family offices and high-net-worth families across many areas of the firm for years. This expansion formalizes that work and gives clients a coordinated team that can address a range of issues." Morton brings decades of experience advising family offices, closely held businesses, and investors on sophisticated corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, strategic investments, and other complex business matters.

Using a coordinated, concierge-style approach, Venable advises across the lifecycle of family capital, from governance, tax and wealth planning to M&A, direct and fund investments, enterprise protection, philanthropy, and succession. The firm also counsels on specialized assets relevant to high-net-worth families and public figures, including art, real estate, media and entertainment interests, sports teams, intellectual property, royalties, rights of publicity, and name, image, and likeness (NIL) rights.

"Family offices create a greater intersection between private wealth, investment activity, and business operations," said Sandra Newman, partner, Venable Private Wealth Planning. "Families need advisers who can look across those interests, anticipate where legal and business issues converge, and help them make decisions with their immediate priorities and long-term objectives in mind." Newman advises clients on structuring and administering family offices, with a focus on investment structures, risk management, multigenerational wealth planning, succession, and tax optimization strategies.

For more information, visit Venable's Family Offices page.

Venable LLP is an American Lawyer Global 100 law firm headquartered in Washington, DC, that serves as primary counsel to a worldwide clientele of large and mid-sized organizations, nonprofits, high-net-worth entrepreneurs, and other individuals. With more than 900 professionals in California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, New York, Virginia, and Washington, DC, the firm strategically advances its clients' objectives in the United States and around the globe. Venable advises clients on a broad range of business and regulatory law, legislative affairs, complex litigation, and the full range of intellectual property disciplines. For more information, please visit Venable.com.

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