Northwood, Kelly & Sommerville brings funds, regulatory, corporate, property, private wealth and estate expertise into a single, discreet partnership — one relationship partner, every discipline your matter touches, from the first conversation to the next generation.
Most firms make you coordinate your own advisers — a funds lawyer here, a corporate lawyer there, an estate planner somewhere else. NKS brings every discipline your family, fund or business will ever need into one partnership, under one engagement.
Establishing and licensing funds, and advising the managers, trustees and responsible entities who run them.
AML/CTF, AFSL and Australian Credit Licence frameworks built to withstand a regulator's scrutiny, not just pass one.
Mergers, raises, joint ventures and the commercial contracts that hold a growing business together.
Prestige and commercial property, handled with the same care as the trust or company that will hold it.
Wills, trusts and succession plans built for complex and blended families, not templates.
Notarisation and apostille for documents that must be trusted the moment they cross a border.
Commercial, trust and estate disputes, conducted to protect a relationship as much as a position.
The integrating practice: governance, structuring and tax for families who think in generations.
Complex problems are unsettling mostly because they are unclear. Our task is to make yours clear, and then to carry it — quietly, precisely, for as long as it takes.
Your affairs are never a case study. What you tell us stays inside the room, always.
A named partner owns your relationship from the first call — not a rotating associate.
In regulated and tax-sensitive work, small errors compound. We are built to not make them.
Advice measured in decades, appropriate to wealth and relationships meant to outlast us.