Meeschaert Family Office

Overview

Meeschaert Family Office provides a professional team to supervise family wealth on behalf of clients. Its specialists combine wealth, tax, financial and real-estate expertise to structure and enhance family assets.²

The firm identifies itself as a co-founder of the Association Française du Family Office, established in 2003.³

History

Meeschaert Family Office states that it was created in 2003 to serve the needs of the Meeschaert family. Groupe Meeschaert traces its origins to 1935, when Emile Meeschaert founded the group.⁴

The group developed its family-office business in 2003 and joined Groupe LFPI in 2021.⁵

Timeline

1. 1935Groupe Meeschaert traces its origins to 1935, when Emile Meeschaert founded the group.
2. 2003The firm identifies itself as a co-founder of the Association Française du Family Office, established in 2003.

Leadership

Charles Bienaimé is the responsible executive and a directoire member in charge of the group’s family-office activities. He helped create the business in France in 2003.⁶

The wider family-office team draws on the group’s wealth engineers, asset supervisors, financial experts and assistants.⁷

Services

Meeschaert Family Office conducts global wealth audits that consider clients’ current and future projects, coordinating the work with the group’s financial, legal and tax specialists.⁸

Its support includes asset supervision, management dashboards, family governance and philanthropy.⁹

Family governance assistance helps families organize decision-making, clarify responsibilities and support continuity between generations. The firm also offers family-harmony support and philanthropy guidance through its responsible-family-office activities.¹⁰

What the firm offers

• Tax planning
• Philanthropy
• Family governance and education

Client focus

The firm describes its clients as business leaders, their families, wealthy families, family shareholders, private individuals and nonprofit organizations.¹¹

Approach

Meeschaert Family Office emphasizes long-term family continuity and intergenerational responsibility. Its work includes preparing the transfer of leadership between generations of entrepreneurs and helping families maintain cohesion as responsibilities evolve.¹²

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