Family office services
Whether your family runs its own office or has outgrown a handful of separate structures, VG gives you the people, processes and reporting of a family office. You decide where we fit, and we work alongside your team and advisers.
Overview
There are two ways in. With VG Integrated Family Office, we bring your trusts, companies, advisers and jurisdictions together into one connected view, and run it. With VG Family Office Services, your own team keeps the strategy, and we add support for transactions, funds, governance, corporate work and real estate.
Here's where the line sits. VG handles administration, reporting and governance across your structures. Investment management, tax advice and legal advice stay with the firms you choose. We work alongside your executives, lawyers, tax specialists, investment managers and banks. You decide where VG fits.
Both offerings are led by Sheena Huggett, Head of Family Office, within the Private Wealth team led by Wendy Inns. Every enquiry goes to a director.
Two ways to work with us. One team throughout.
If you run a family office, we extend what it can do. If you don't, we give you the benefits of one without having to build it. Families move between the two as they change, and the team stays the same.
Integrated family office
When a family's affairs outgrow a handful of separate structures, no one holds the full picture. We bring your trusts, companies, advisers and jurisdictions together into one connected view, with the processes to run it: governance, accounting and reporting, succession, property, philanthropy and transaction support.
It's family office capability without a permanent team to build or manage. Use what you need now, and add more as the family changes.
- Structures in several jurisdictions
- Several advisers, and no one holding the full picture
- Generations with different needs
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Family governance
Help your family make decisions together, across generations.
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Family succession
Pass wealth to the next generation as you intend.
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Philanthropy and charity
Giving that lasts, with governance to keep it on purpose.
Family office services
Your team knows the family and its strategy. We add the specialist capability and capacity it needs, without new infrastructure: entering a new jurisdiction, running a significant transaction, adding independent trustees or directors, or extra hands when the workload peaks.
We work alongside your executives, lawyers, tax specialists, investment managers and banks, and your family office stays at the centre.
- Extra capacity when you need it
- Independent trustees and directors
- Transaction and SPV support
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Fiduciary services
VG as trustee, director and fiduciary for your structures.
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Private trust companies and foundations
Your family's own trustee company, with VG running it.
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SPV services
Form and run the special purpose vehicles behind your deals.
Trusts, foundations and private trust companies
The structures that hold a family's wealth: Jersey trusts, foundations, companies and partnerships, and private trust companies and foundations for families who want a seat at the trustee table.
We can act as trustee or director, or as protector or enforcer alongside your existing trustees.
- Trusts, foundations, companies and partnerships
- Private trust companies and private trust foundations
- Protector and enforcer services
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Trust establishment and administration
Pass legal ownership of assets to a trustee you trust.
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Jersey foundations
A cross between a company and a trust, set up and run.
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Protector and enforcer services
Independent oversight that keeps a trust true to its purpose.
Accounting, reporting and administration
Corporate administration, accounting and financial reporting across the family's structures, so the family and its advisers work from the same numbers.
Registered office, company secretarial and statutory filings are handled by the same team.
- Corporate administration
- Accounting and financial reporting
- Registered office and company secretarial
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Accounting and reporting
Statutory accounts under FRS 102, IFRS or US GAAP.
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Company secretarial, registered office and directors
Keep your company compliant, on record and on time.
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Limited services and registered office
Back-office support for sole directors of Jersey companies.
Succession and family governance
Wealth passed on the way the family intends, with decision rules the next generation helps write: succession plans, family charters and constitutions, and councils that meet and keep records.
We work alongside the family's lawyers and tax advisers, who advise on the legal and tax side.
- Family charters and constitutions
- Decision-making and reporting frameworks
- Next-generation engagement
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Family governance
Help your family make decisions together, across generations.
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Family succession
Pass wealth to the next generation as you intend.
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Family investment companies
A private company to hold the family's investments.
Property, investments and transactions
Holding structures for the family's property and investments, family investment companies that separate economic rights from control, and SPVs for transactions.
When the family buys, sells or refinances, the structure is ready on the day.
- Real estate structures
- Family investment companies
- Transaction and SPV services
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Real estate investment services
Hold residential and commercial property through a structure.
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Family investment companies
A private company to hold the family's investments.
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SPV services
Form and run the special purpose vehicles behind your deals.
Philanthropy
Charitable trusts, foundations and grant-making governance, so the family's giving has a clear purpose and the structure to last.
Often the place the next generation first takes a seat at the table.
- Charitable trusts and foundations
- Grant-making governance
- Reporting and compliance support
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Philanthropy and charity
Giving that lasts, with governance to keep it on purpose.
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Jersey foundations
A cross between a company and a trust, set up and run.
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Family governance
Help your family make decisions together, across generations.
Who you’ll work with
Named people, not a department
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Sheena has spent more than 20 years in private wealth, including 13 with a multi-family office before joining VG in 2020. As Head of Family Office, she helps families structure, govern and administer complex wealth. That might mean an offshore structure, planning for a business sale or liquidity event, buying a high-value asset, or succession across several jurisdictions. She handles the regulatory detail and finds the practical way forward.
The proof? Some families have worked with Sheena for over 15 years through business sales and acquisitions, family challenges, legislative change and the passing of wealth between generations. She is a full member of STEP, holds a Diploma in International Finance and Administration from the Corporate Governance Institute, won a Citywealth PowerWomen Award in 2025 and features in the Private Client Global Elite directory.
Ultra-high-net-worth individuals, entrepreneurial families and family offices work with Sheena on structures holding investment portfolios, private equity, real estate, luxury assets and operating businesses. She works alongside lawyers, tax advisers, investment managers and bankers across Jersey, the UK, Europe, the Middle East and South Africa, so everyone pulls in the same direction. You deal with Sheena directly, and she’s in it for the long term.
Talk to us. Wherever you are in the decision.
No pitch. No pressure. A private conversation with the people who'd look after your family.
Where we are
Jersey • UK • Middle East
Jersey
Fifth Floor
37 Esplanade
St Helier
Jersey
JE1 2TR
UK
Warnford Court
29 Throgmorton St
London
UK
EC2N 2AT
Middle East
Level 5, 510
Index Tower, West Entrance
DIFC
Dubai
UAE
Frequently asked questions
What is a family office?
A family office looks after a wealthy family's affairs in one place: its structures, administration, reporting, governance and advisers. A single family office serves one family with its own team. VG gives families the benefits of one without building it, or extends the office a family already has.
What's the difference between an integrated family office and family office services?
An integrated family office is for families without their own office: we bring their structures, advisers and jurisdictions together and run the processes. Family office services are for families that already have an office: we add specialist capability and capacity alongside their team.
Can we start with one and move to the other?
Yes. Families can start with either and move between them as they change, including back to a lighter footprint. The same Private Wealth team stays with you throughout.
Do you replace our existing advisers?
No. We work alongside your executives, lawyers, tax specialists, investment managers and banks, and your family decides where VG fits.
Do you give investment, legal or tax advice?
Investment management stays with your investment managers, and legal and tax advice with your lawyers and tax advisers. We look after the structures, administration, governance and reporting, and work closely with them.
Why Jersey for a family's structures?
Jersey has a strong and robust legal and regulatory framework and a tax-neutral regime, and VG has looked after international families from Jersey since 1982. VG is regulated by the Jersey Financial Services Commission, and our Middle East office by the DFSA.