WTA International | Asia

International Advisory for Asian Families, Entrepreneurs and Family Offices

WTA is a Dubai-based UAE advisory firm providing UAE and international wealth, corporate and family office services, with direct access to significant capabilities across the UK and European markets. Where jurisdiction-specific legal, tax or regulated advice is required outside the UAE, WTA works with the client’s existing or other appropriately qualified and licensed advisers in the relevant jurisdiction.

Singapore

Hong Kong

China

India

Who We Help

We work with families and entrepreneurs across Asia whose affairs no longer sit in one country. Some have built businesses that now operate internationally. Others hold investments, property and family members in several jurisdictions, or run a family office that needs to look beyond its home market. Many come to us through the private banks, trustees, lawyers and family offices that already advise them.

What These Families Are Trying to Achieve

The aims are usually long term: wealth and businesses organized clearly across countries, a smooth handover to the next generation, a family that can make decisions well together, and advisers in different jurisdictions who work as one team. We start with those aims, and only then look at the arrangements that could support them.

How We Help

We provide UAE-based advisory and hands-on implementation, working from inside the UAE regulatory system, not from a distance.

Wealth and Corporate Structuring

Organizing family and business wealth so it is clear, workable and suited to the family’s plans.

Family Office

Assessing whether a family office makes sense, and helping establish and run one where it does.

Succession and Governance

Planning how wealth and control pass between generations, and how the family makes decisions.

Fiduciary and Trust Coordination

Working alongside a family’s trustees and fiduciaries, and coordinating new arrangements where appropriate.

International Holdings

Holding arrangements for investments and businesses held outside the family’s home market.

UAE Residence and Business Interests

UAE residence, a regional base or a UAE business, for families and businesses with a genuine need for one.

Implementation Support

Putting agreed plans in place and keeping them running.

Markets We Work With

Singapore

Families and family offices with interests beyond Singapore.

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Hong Kong

Families and businesses in one of the world’s major wealth, trust and business centers.

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China

Internationally active Chinese families, entrepreneurs and their advisers.

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India

Indian families and entrepreneurs with international interests.

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The UAE Within an International Strategy

For many Asian families, the UAE is one part of a wider international plan rather than a replacement for home. It offers a well-connected base between Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe, with long-term residence options for those who need them.

Not every family needs a UAE presence, and we will say so when that is the case. Where a family’s plans reach the UK or Europe, WTA’s direct access to capabilities in those markets means that part of the plan can be supported as well.

Working With Your Advisers

We support properly structured, transparent and compliant arrangements, working alongside the client’s existing professional advisers where appropriate. We advise on UAE matters and help coordinate the wider plan, while jurisdiction-specific legal, tax and regulatory advice remains with appropriately qualified advisers in each country.

For Advisers Referring Clients

We work with private banks, trustees, family offices, lawyers, accountants and tax advisers whose clients have interests in the UAE or across several jurisdictions. We keep you informed throughout and respect your existing relationship with the client.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Do you replace a family's existing advisers?

No. We work alongside them and coordinate where a plan involves the UAE or several jurisdictions.

Do you advise on local tax or law in Asian countries?

No. That advice stays with appropriately qualified local advisers, and we work with them

Does a family need to move to the UAE to work with WTA?

No. A UAE presence is only one possible part of a plan, and many plans do not involve a move at all.

Discuss your UAE plans with a senior adviser.

Tell us what your family or business is trying to achieve. We will explain how we could help and how we would work with your existing advisers.