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Privé Partners · New Zealand
Independent Support for Global Family Offices
A genuine full-service multi-family office based in New Zealand, giving offshore families discreet, direct access to the country’s leading independent specialists.
- 25 years
- In New Zealand
- 37 years
- Internationally
- One relationship
- Complete capability
New Zealand is not a market you can read from offshore.
It is small, relationship-led and largely undocumented. The best tax counsel, private client lawyers and fiduciary people do not advertise, and several cannot be found at all without an introduction.
Families arrive through whoever was closest to the transaction — a bank, a migration agent, a firm that happened to be there — and the entire New Zealand position is built around that accident. Structures are set before the strategy is settled. Advice fragments across firms that never speak to one another.
No one holds the whole picture, and no one is accountable for it.
What we are
One firm. The whole picture. Answerable for all of it.
Whatever a private client or global family office needs here, Privé Partners delivers it — using only the best of the best independent specialists the country has to offer.
We are not a law firm, a tax practice or an investment manager. We appoint them, coordinate them, and remain accountable for their work as a whole.
Independent
Free from institutional ownership or product distribution, our recommendations answer to one interest only: our clients’.
Accountable
One firm, answerable for the whole engagement, however many specialists it involves.
Continuous
Families, structures and jurisdictions change. We remain engaged across those changes, measured in years, not transactions.
Where we provide access
Eleven disciplines. One relationship.
Each discipline is held by an independent firm we consider the best in the country at what it does. We own no part of them and take nothing from them. They hold their place only while they remain the best answer for our clients.
01
Immigration
Licensed immigration advisers — residence, investor and golden visa pathways
02
Tax
Independent tax counsel — residency, transitional relief, trust and offshore reporting
03
Legal
Private client counsel — structuring, succession, acquisition, dispute
04
Investment
Independent managers and mandates, selected without reference to platform
05
Property
Privé, our own property office — search, acquisition, development, stewardship
06
Banking
New Zealand private bankers — introductions and account onboarding
07
Corporate
Formation, holding structures and operating support
08
Governance
Independent trustees and directors — boards, family charters
09
Compliance
Overseas investment consent, AML and beneficial ownership, reporting
10
Relocation
Family transition, household logistics, settling in
11
Lifestyle
Schooling, medical, security, aviation
How we work
A mandate, not a retainer for its own sake.
01
Confidential enquiry
Received by a principal of the firm. No intake, no delegation.
02
Mandate
Scope, sequence and fee agreed in writing before work begins. Where we are not the right firm, we say so here.
03
Assembly
We appoint the specialists, brief them against one set of objectives, and put you in direct contact. Advice is never intermediated.
04
Stewardship
We hold the timeline, the dependencies and the record, and remain engaged once the transaction closes.
Our fees
We are paid by our clients, and only by our clients.
Engaged per mandate, agreed in advance and in writing. No commissions, no referral fees, no product or introducer economics of any kind. Where a specialist is appointed, their fees are theirs, disclosed to you in full, and paid by you directly.
From the founder
Ian Thompson, FounderTwenty-five years ago I started Privé because international clients were arriving in New Zealand largely alone, without independent advice, and often without realising what they didn’t know.
The property was rarely the hardest part. Tax, residency, banking, structure and governance came first, and families were assembling them one referral at a time from the other side of the world, with no way to judge who was any good.
We built that network out of necessity, for our own clients, over twenty-five years. Privé Partners makes it available on its own terms.
The Privé group
Privé — New Zealand’s Private Property Office
Where a family’s New Zealand position involves land, a home, a development or a portfolio, that capability sits inside the group. Privé has safeguarded the property interests of private clients for twenty-five years.
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