Cluster Family Office

Overview

The operating entity is Cluster Family Office SL, company number B64727142, with a registered office in Barcelona, Spain.² The site states that Grupo Cluster is an appointed agent of Banco Alcalá, Banco de España registration number 0188, and offers the bank’s investment services.¹

The firm describes itself as one of the first independent family office firms in Spain.³ Its website says the founders have more than 25 years of experience managing family wealth and working with business owner and investor families.¹

History

The firm says its founder established Cluster Family Office in December 2007 after managing family wealth and investments since the early 1990s.⁴ The firm presents confidentiality, independence, transparency, fiscal cost efficiency, and coordination of multidisciplinary advisers as operating principles.¹

Leadership

Gian Paolo Amato is listed as Managing Partner. His biography states that he previously worked as a Financial Advisor in Merrill Lynch USA’s Global Wealth Management division and joined Cluster Family Office in May 2009.⁶

Àngels Descamps is listed as Legal Back Office and is described as responsible for legal and back office work, with prior experience at Bufete Mora & Ortega.⁴ Cristina Fernández is listed as Back Office Assistant and Técnico Administrativa.⁴

Alfonso Carrillo is listed as Partner and described as co founder of Family Office Mexico and FOM Partners, representatives of Cluster Family Office España.⁴ Joan Albert Mercader is listed as Partner and described as a human resources and family business consultant specializing in executive search, recruitment, coaching, and family enterprise development.⁴

Services

The multi family office offering includes global wealth planning, financial advice, real estate investment advice, private equity advice, wealth structure creation, tax and legal advice, inheritance and succession planning, insurance, philanthropy, concierge services, and family services.⁷

The firm says its global wealth planning process analyzes and restructures financial, real estate, and corporate assets around each family’s objectives.⁷ It offers formation of national and international wealth holding vehicles, including structures intended to optimize taxation and access investment funds and private equity.⁷

Cluster Family Office says it can integrate and coordinate a family’s existing advisers. It also states that a single family office may later be created if wealth volume and client wishes support that structure.⁷

Family office support includes succession planning, will analysis and preparation, family business succession consulting, corporate advice, and conflict resolution.⁷ Philanthropy support includes analysis of nongovernmental organizations and foundations, donation channel recommendations, monitoring, and assistance with family foundation creation.⁷ The website also lists United States university admissions support, including SAT, ACT, and TOEFL preparation, applications, essays, and visas.⁷

What the firm offers

• Financial planning
• Tax planning
• Estate planning
• Philanthropy
• Administration and bill pay
• Risk and insurance
• Business owner services
• Private and alternative investments
• Cross-border planning

Client focus

The firm’s multi family office services target business owners, investors, clients with high or medium wealth, ordinary savers and investors, and people who have received sudden wealth such as inheritances or lottery proceeds.⁷

Investment philosophy and approach

The firm says its approach centers on confidentiality, independence, transparency, fiscal cost efficiency, and coordination of multidisciplinary advisers.¹ It describes wealth planning as an analysis and restructuring of financial, real estate, and corporate assets around each family’s objectives.⁷

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Sources

1. Cluster Family Office home page, accessed 2026-10-23:
2. Cluster Family Office privacy and cookies notice, accessed 2026-10-23:
3. Cluster Family Office family office explainer, accessed 2026-10-23:
4. Cluster Family Office team page, accessed 2026-10-23:
5. SEC IAPD search, accessed 2026-10-23:
6. Gian Paolo Amato biography, accessed 2026-10-23:
7. Cluster Family Office multi family office services, accessed 2026-10-23:

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