Global Reach
Our clients rarely live in one jurisdiction. We built the firm so that a life spread across several countries is held by a single office rather than divided between four.
The opportunity
A generation of entrepreneurs and industrialists is building businesses of real scale in energy, logistics, technology, agriculture, finance and construction, and increasingly they are building them in more than one country at once. The wealth that results is cross-border by nature. The same family may hold an operating group in Lagos, property in London, accounts in Geneva, a residence in Dubai and children at school in New England.
The advice available to these families has not kept pace. Private banks and family offices are usually organised around a single jurisdiction: they understand where a client banks but not where the money was made, or they understand the home market but cannot reach the international one. Each provider sees a fragment. The result is wealth managed in pieces, with no one accountable for the whole.
Lexfid exists in that gap. The firm was built from the start to be fluent on both sides of a border: close enough to the home market to understand where the wealth comes from, established enough internationally to manage where it goes. We do not claim any market is simple. We claim to know the ones we work in, and to apply the same standard of diligence in each of them.
Fluent on both sides of a border
Where our clients are from
- Regional offices in New York, Dubai and Lagos, staffed by people who live there
- Working relationships with banks, counsel and authorities in each market
- An understanding of family and business context that cannot be learned from a desk abroad
- Client meetings held at home, in English or French, on the client's schedule
Where their interests reach
- A head office on Rue du Rhone in Geneva, at the centre of international private wealth
- A private banking network across Geneva, Zurich, London and New York
- Property and asset markets in Europe, the Gulf, North America and Asia, handled with local counsel
- Schools, clinics and institutions that matter to a family's international life
What this means for clients
Access
Doors open in both directions. We introduce families to the private banks and off-market property that suit them, and we help international investors act in less familiar markets with confidence.
Judgement
A decade of working both sides teaches which opportunities are real. We verify title, counterparties and pricing ourselves before recommending anything, in any market.
Continuity
One firm, one senior contact and one file across every border. When your interests move between Lagos, Dubai and New York, your advisor does not change.
Speak with a partner
Tell us what you want to achieve. A senior partner will respond personally within one business day.