Uncommon expertise
Our Private Client practice delivers complete solutions to help our clients sleep at night, from family business succession issues, reputations, property and homes, wills, estates, trusts and probate.
What is Nicholas Weston Private?
Nicholas Weston Private helps our clients with the things that matter to them more than their businesses: their personal assets, homes, family, relationships, their reputation, their legacy.
Why should we use Nicholas Weston?
Nicholas Weston offers a unique approach to our client’s personal affairs, understanding that our clients’ lives extend far beyond financial concerns. We focus on the things that matter most: family and friendship dynamics, relationships, reputations, homes, personal assets, and legacies. Our expertise covers traditional areas like wills, estate planning and trusts, but also extends to acquiring residential property, or fine art, resolving family disputes, disagreements between co-founders, and disputes involving educational institutions. We handle complex family, business, and multi-party disputes with discretion. When needed, we tap into a network of professionals including communications advisors, private lenders, and barristers.
At Nicholas Weston, we never take for granted the privilege of being entrusted with our clients’ most personal matters, always striving to handle them better than any other law firm.
How do we do it?
The firm’s Principal, Nick Weston, is one of the most experienced private client lawyers in Australia. He serves as a trusted advisor to founders, high-net-worth individuals and families, with over 25 years of experience in providing seamless, integrated and holistic advice involving private and sensitive matters. Having also served as the CEO of a publicly listed company, Nick understands what keeps business owners awake at night from both an operational and advisory perspective.
Nick is passionate about going the extra mile to protect his clients’ interests and solve the multifaceted challenges they face in building, preserving and transferring personal and family wealth across generations.
He employs a range of strategies, including property law, bespoke wills and trust structures, family governance frameworks, and securing injunctions to stem personal damage or secure assets, as well as alternative dispute resolution procedures to navigate complex family or friendship/co-founder dynamics and ensure the seamless transition of wealth and business ownership interests.
