Holland & Knight

Holland & Knight is a national law firm with approximately 2,200 attorneys across more than 35 offices in the United States and internationally. For family offices and high-net-worth families, the firm offers a dedicated private wealth services practice that sits alongside its broader corporate, litigation, and real estate capabilities. This combination matters when family office matters cross legal disciplines, such as when an estate planning question intersects with a business sale or a real estate dispute.

The private wealth services team focuses on several core areas relevant to family office principals and their advisors:

• Drafting and administration of complex trusts and estates
• Formation and administration of exempt organizations, including related tax law considerations
• Trust and estate administration, including fiduciary litigation
• Counsel for high-net-worth families and family-owned businesses
• Nonprofit and tax-exempt organization advisory

The firm’s scale creates genuine access advantages. A family office working with Holland & Knight on an estate matter can draw on specialists in M&A, private investment fund formation, real estate transactions, and tax across the same firm without managing multiple external counsel relationships. The Jacksonville office, for example, explicitly lists private wealth services alongside corporate and real estate as a primary practice area, suggesting depth rather than a peripheral offering.

The trade-off is the one typical of large full-service firms: pricing is not disclosed publicly, and fees at a firm of this scale are likely to reflect that breadth. Family offices seeking a boutique estate planning specialist with lower overhead may find the structure less suited to their needs. Those with complex, multi-jurisdictional legal matters spanning corporate, real estate, and private wealth are more likely to extract full value from the firm’s cross-practice depth.