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Establish Your Family Office at the Region’s Leading Wealth Hub

ADGM provides a stable, globally recognised platform for family offices, designed to support wealth management, succession planning, and long-term asset preservation.

ADGM offers a comprehensive range of structuring solutions, including holding companies, special purpose vehicles (SPVs), trusts, and foundations, enabling families to efficiently organise, protect, and manage their assets across the UAE and international markets. Backed by a deep ecosystem of experienced advisors and a robust legal framework based on English common law, ADGM delivers the flexibility, transparency, and discretion required to manage family wealth with confidence across generations.

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Why Set Up a Family Office in ADGM?

Every family has distinct objectives and evolving requirements, which call for structures that are adaptable, robust, and future-ready. ADGM offers a flexible platform with a range of family office structures designed to support different needs and stages. With the benefit of a single licence enabling multiple activities, ADGM provides certainty, efficiency, and the solutions families need to manage and grow their wealth over the long term.

Family offices deliver a comprehensive range of wealth management services, including asset management, investment portfolios, funds, and property management, within a single legal entity. This high-level financial planning model is based on an integrated approach that aligns cash, asset, and risk management.

Beyond financial advice, family offices offer a broad spectrum of planning services, encompassing legal, insurance, real estate, and charitable giving advice. These services are delivered through a coordinated approach that consolidates the family’s combined buying power within a single structure.

A primary purpose of a family office is to prepare the next generation for wealth management, offering opportunities to participate in strategic decisions, receive structured training and address potential issues proactively through a family charter.

Effective tax structuring is a central function of a family office, allowing families to position their office in a tax-favourable jurisdiction, such as ADGM, and optimise personal income, ensuring long-term preservation of wealth.

A family office can also manage personal matters, including private schooling, travel arrangements, household management, and other bespoke concierge services, providing a coordinated and seamless approach to the family’s lifestyle needs.

ADGM can offer ONE LICENCE to undertake all of these activities.

ADGM’s Family Office Solutions

ADGM provides three tailored solutions, allowing families to select a structure that best suits their objectives and stages of development.

Single Family Office

A single family office is a company established to exclusively manage the financial and personal affairs of one wealthy family.

Key features include:

Minimum family net assets of USD 10 million
Family members may include all blood relations, allowing the structure to be maintained in perpetuity
Option to register as a Restricted Scope Company (RSC), limiting public disclosure to the office address and company name
Direct setup is possible, without the requirement for a service provider
Low ongoing administration, and no audit requirement

Note

A Single Family Office Structure does not require a financial services permission, but a controlled licence activity.

Multi-Family Office

A multi-family office (MFO) is a company established to support multiple families in managing their wealth and succession.

Key features include:

MFO’s are lightly regulated by the ADGM FSRA (under a Category 4 licence), typically covering advisory, as well as arranging credit and investments
Enables families to benefit from economies of scale and leverage the collective resources of the office
MFOs can choose to incorporate additional licenced activities to expand the family office offering
No restrictions on the family relationships or members covered by the MFO

Note

A Multi-Family Office requires a financial services permission to service more than one family.

Structuring Only

Suitable for families who already have an established structure, and are seeking a soft market entry, or are targeting regional investments.

Structuring options include:

ADGM Foundation: A legal entity that separates legal ownership into the foundation while providing entitlement to proceeds for the beneficiaries.
ADGM SPV: A private limited company with a specific licence to invest in and hold assets, enabling ring-fencing of assets and liabilities.
ADGM Trusts: A three-party arrangement managed by a trustee for the benefit of the beneficiaries, with ADGM providing the regulatory framework only.

Note

These legal structures can be tailored to meet the specific needs of each family.

ADGM Fees

Whilst ADGM fees are fixed, third party providers fees will vary from provider to provider.

Single Family Office

$10,900

Incorporation Fee: $5,600

Annual Renewal Fee: $5,300

No minimum capital required

No minimum bank balance required

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Multi-Family Office

$33,300

Incorporation Fee: $16,800

Annual Renewal Fee: $16,500

Requires a minimum capital of $10,000; or

Expenditure based capital whereby FSRA will look to ensure you can cover 6/52nds of your annual expenditure

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Structuring Only

~$1,300 - $3,300

Foundation Incorporation Fee: $800

Foundation Annual Renewal Fee: $500 (Initial assets as low as $100)

SPV Fees: $1,900

SPV Annual Renewal Fee: $1,400

No ADGM fees for trusts. Law firm costs apply.

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The ADGM Family Office Advantage

Families consider many factors when selecting a jurisdiction for their family office. ADGM offers a unique combination of legal and regulatory advantages, a supportive ecosystem, lifestyle conveniences including premium real estate, educational facilities, as well as opportunities for investment and tax optimisation.

Legal

ADGM is the only free zone in the region with the direct application of English law, allowing families to leverage a wide range of structures and solutions, including SPVs, Foundations, RSCs, Trust frameworks, and LP/GP arrangements. A comprehensive suite of options for establishing and structuring a family office is readily available in ADGM.

Eco-System

ADGM offers a capital ecosystem that provides access to leading global and local capital providers and allocators. Its banking and professional services ecosystem is vibrant, with tier-1 firms covering all sectors, including legal, accounting, tax, and consulting.

Lifestyle

ADGM offers world-class residential, shopping, leisure, healthcare, and education facilities. It is consistently recognised as one of the safest cities in the world and serves as a unique networking hub, where relationships and connections are nurtured in an open, business-friendly, and welcoming environment.

Investment & Tax

Abu Dhabi has over 100 bilateral investment treaties (BITs) and double taxation treaties (DTTs) in place, with an additional DTTs at various stages of negotiation and ratification. Foundations in ADGM also provide the opportunity for a 0% corporate tax rate.

Steps to setting up in ADGM

Single family office and SPV setup require a business plan submittal prior to beginning the online application process.

Create a profile and review the documentation requirements for the online application process.

Fill out the required forms, via the online registry solution and submit the application, required documentation and payment, using a Visa or MasterCard.

Once you have submitted your application, you will be able to view the status from your dashboard on the online registry solution. You will be informed of any changes required on your application (if any) via email, and you will receive a notification following the Registrar’s final decision.

If successful, you will receive a soft copy of your licence via email.

Family Offices Established in ADGM

Notable family offices with a publicly announced presence in ADGM include:

Ray Dalio

Dalio Family Office (Branch)

Leon Black

Elysium Management

Nassef Onsi Sawiris

NNS Group

Christian Angermayer

Apeiron Investment Group

Raj Kumar / Family

RB Capital / Royal Holdings

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