Adamas Advisors

What We Do

Mandates built around consequential questions.

We provide strategic, governance and coordination advice. We do not provide legal, tax or investment advice and do not replace appropriately qualified specialist advisers; we help the family define the objective, governance arrangements, information requirements and decision process within which those advisers work.

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Family Office Design & Development

Establishing a family office, professionalising an existing one, or deciding what should remain in-house.

Explore family office design and development and the broader framework of family continuity.

Typical work

  • Purpose and operating-model design
  • Role, capability and cost review
  • Reporting lines and decision rights
  • Recruitment and adviser selection
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Governance of Structures & Fiduciary Relationships

Reviewing the purpose, governance and coordination of trusts, foundations and holding structures alongside independently appointed professional advisers.

Explore trustee and fiduciary coordination through trusteeship.

Typical work

  • Purpose and governance review
  • Coordination with independently appointed trustees and fiduciaries
  • Governance across trusts, foundations and companies
  • Strategic coordination with legal and tax specialists
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Governance Oversight & Adviser Coordination

Creating reporting, accountability, information-flow and escalation arrangements across independently appointed banks, trustees, investment firms and professional advisers.

Read about coordinating advisers and family institutions and working alongside established professional advisers.

Typical work

  • Governance reporting and information flows
  • Adviser mandates and accountability
  • Risk, escalation and decision procedures
  • Meeting facilitation and governance coordination without authority to bind, instruct or transact
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Strategic & Long-Term Mandates

Principal-level counsel, family-office leadership and continuing oversight where judgement and continuity matter.

Explore our dedicated Strategic Advisory mandate and Alexander’s independent advisory work, including strategic counsel for founders and the questions that follow financial success.

Typical work

  • Continuing counsel to principals and families
  • Integrated or strategic family-office leadership
  • Sensitive transitions and special situations
  • Formal fiduciary or governance appointments where appropriate

A confidential first step

A consequential question deserves a confidential first conversation.

We can help clarify the real question, the decisions it requires and the people who need to be involved.

Research and evidence

Explore the evidence behind family continuity

Review current institutional and academic research on succession preparedness, NextGen readiness, governance and family continuity.

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