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A Global Family Office Structuring Conversation with Marnin Michaels — Zurich, Luxembourg, Dubai, Singapore, and the Fifty-Million Question
Monday, August 17 · 10:30am ET · Live across all my social channels
I am going to ask him this:
"Forget every client. Your own family, your own money. One passport, one country of residence, one jurisdiction to structure through — locked for thirty years, no changes, no matter what happens in the world. What do you choose, and would you sleep at night?"
And then this:
"You have spent twenty-five years helping families stay ahead of governments. Governments have spent those same twenty-five years closing the distance. Over the next fifty years — who wins?"
Marnin J. Michaels is a partner at Baker McKenzie in Zurich and one of the most widely regarded wealth management lawyers alive. Twenty-five years structuring the affairs of international families and financial institutions from the center of Europe. Two legal treatises. He does not deal in theory.
Ninety minutes. No slides. Here is where we go:
→ Why the United States follows you everywhere — and why a green card may be the most expensive document a wealthy family ever signs
→ Where the money actually went after London ended the non-dom era
→ Has Switzerland lost its luster, or does the obituary keep getting written and never land?
→ What Luxembourg does better than anywhere on earth — and who should never use it
→ What the missiles did to Dubai's promise of safety
→ Singapore: priced itself out, or exactly the point?
→ The fifty-million question — I spent twenty years saying you needed five hundred million to justify a single family office. I no longer believe that. I am asking him to tell me where I am wrong.
No registration. No link. Live across my channels — just show up.
—
One more thing.
I wrote a book called Should You Have a Family Office? — because the threshold question has been answered in dollars for thirty years, and dollars were always the wrong unit.
It was never about the money. It was about whether a family needs privacy, control and customization enough to own the function instead of renting it. AI collapsed the cost of intelligence. The old number is dead.
You can download it free at angelorobles.com — along with The Continuity Index, the diagnostic that scores a family office across the six capabilities that actually decide whether it performs.
SFO Continuity is the operating system for the modern family office. A global membership for families building faster, more capable, less fragile offices — the diagnostic, the masterclasses, both living books on the AI-native family office, and the room.
angelorobles.com/membership
#FamilyOffice #AngeloRobles #MarninMichaels #UHNW #WealthManagement #SFOContinuity #InternationalTax #SingleFamilyOffice
A Global Family Office Structuring Conversation with Marnin Michaels — Zurich, Luxembourg, Dubai, Singapore, and the Fifty-Million Question
Monday, August 17 · 10:30am ET · Live across all my social channels
I am going to ask him this:
"Forget every client. Your own family, your own money. One passport, one country of residence, one jurisdiction to structure through — locked for thirty years, no changes, no matter what happens in the world. What do you choose, and would you sleep at night?"
And then this:
"You have spent twenty-five years helping families stay ahead of governments. Governments have spent those same twenty-five years closing the distance. Over the next fifty years — who wins?"
Marnin J. Michaels is a partner at Baker McKenzie in Zurich and one of the most widely regarded wealth management lawyers alive. Twenty-five years structuring the affairs of international families and financial institutions from the center of Europe. Two legal treatises. He does not deal in theory.
Ninety minutes. No slides. Here is where we go:
→ Why the United States follows you everywhere — and why a green card may be the most expensive document a wealthy family ever signs
→ Where the money actually went after London ended the non-dom era
→ Has Switzerland lost its luster, or does the obituary keep getting written and never land?
→ What Luxembourg does better than anywhere on earth — and who should never use it
→ What the missiles did to Dubai's promise of safety
→ Singapore: priced itself out, or exactly the point?
→ The fifty-million question — I spent twenty years saying you needed five hundred million to justify a single family office. I no longer believe that. I am asking him to tell me where I am wrong.
No registration. No link. Live across my channels — just show up.
—
One more thing.
I wrote a book called Should You Have a Family Office? — because the threshold question has been answered in dollars for thirty years, and dollars were always the wrong unit.
It was never about the money. It was about whether a family needs privacy, control and customization enough to own the function instead of renting it. AI collapsed the cost of intelligence. The old number is dead.
You can download it free at angelorobles.com — along with The Continuity Index, the diagnostic that scores a family office across the six capabilities that actually decide whether it performs.
SFO Continuity is the operating system for the modern family office. A global membership for families building faster, more capable, less fragile offices — the diagnostic, the masterclasses, both living books on the AI-native family office, and the room.
angelorobles.com/membership
#FamilyOffice #AngeloRobles #MarninMichaels #UHNW #WealthManagement #SFOContinuity #InternationalTax #SingleFamilyOffice
