Tempest is a leading independent legal and advisory practice based in Monaco, working on corporate, banking and finance, private client, regulatory and compliance matters for a wide range of international businesses and individuals.
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Established in 2012 by founding partners William Easun and Nathalie Tanzi, the firm provides non-contentious legal and regulatory advice to clients including Single and Multi-Family Offices, banks, investment advisers, brokers, regulated entities generally, corporations, entrepreneurs, sports personalities and private clients.
Our partners are English and French qualified Legal Advisers who have spent many decades working in Monaco and enjoy strong connections with Monaco government, regulators, and across the business and advisory community.
We can assist on Monaco immigration and residency matters for both corporates and individuals, and can help with all the issues associated with setting up or relocating operations to this jurisdiction.
We can address the estate planning needs of private individuals who are resident in Monaco, working in tandem with their international advisers, including advising on wills and trusts.
We believe in integrity, professionalism and confidentiality, and are committed to giving independent, strategic and valuable advice to our clients, both in Monaco and beyond.
All of our legal advisers have many years of experience working with businesses in Monaco and advising on Monaco’s corporate law. We assist companies with their day-to-day corporate legal requirements and provide strategic guidance.
Our legal advisers are also well-recognised for their abilities to advise on mergers and acquisitions, and restructurings of businesses operating in and around Monaco.
We work with entrepreneurs and corporate clients across a wide range of industry sectors and at various stages of development, and we advise them on all types of corporate and M&A matters, including:
Our partner William Easun is recognised as one of the leading legal advisers in Monaco advising private clients and families, including entrepreneurs, sports personalities, investors, hedge fund managers and brokers. As a result, Tempest is one of the most experienced firms in the Principality when it comes to establishing Single and Multi-Family Offices and dealing with the associated structuring and estate planning issues that arise.
Many of our private clients now choose to employ the services of Multi-Family Offices to meet their private banking and wealth management requirements. In the last few years, Monaco has passed laws to regulate the activity of Multi-Family Offices in the Principality, with a view to encouraging more foreign residents of Monaco to favour local MFOs.
Our experts provide integrated advice across the establishment, structuring and management of Single and Multi-Family Offices, as well as working on the estate planning, wills and probate, trusts and regulatory issues involved. We are very well-placed to advise on the launch of Multi-Family Offices under the new Monaco regulations, including those that require authorisation from the regulator, the Commission de Contrôle des Activités Financières (CCAF), and from the Monegasque government.
Family Offices can serve as important vehicles for protecting personal wealth through the generations, and we deliver independent Monegasque legal advice as well as strategic guidance to private individuals and families, with a focus on integrity, professionalism and confidentiality.
Tempest provides sophisticated international estate planning and asset structuring for individuals resident in Monaco, and their families, including advising on wills, trusts, private international law and the notions of renvoi, habitual residence and domicile.
Our partner William Easun is one of the most experienced private client legal advisers operating in the Principality, and works closely with overseas legal advisers and Monaco notaries to advise clients on Monaco law issues around wills, trusts and estate planning issues, including:
Tempest is well-equipped to advise insurers, brokers and agents on all aspects of conducting insurance activities in Monaco, including liaising with regulators and assisting clients in compliance with the latest EU and local regulation.
We regularly work with European insurance companies extending their licences into the Principality of Monaco, and can advise on Monaco law issues in relation to:
