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Private Wealth Management

Accessing the sophisticated resources of UBS Private Wealth Management, we deliver a tailored plan that integrates all of your complex investing, planning and financing priorities. No matter what you seek to accomplish with your wealth, our team offers a seasoned perspective and proactive problem solving . We hope to be the one financial resource you'll ever need for trusted financial advice and the right path toward your goals.

Private Wealth Management is a division within UBS Financial Services Inc.

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Navigation opportunities across your enterprise

Partnering with resources across UBS, including UBS Family Office Solutions as well as our global investment bank, we integrate institutional-level business solutions for family offices. From family governance to business transition, we help bridge the generations to preserve wealth, seize opportunity and create continuity.

Navigation opportunities across your enterprise

Tailored family office services

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Tailored family office services

Crafting your legacy

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Crafting your legacy

Family Office Solutions

Family Office Solutions

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Family offices are as different as the families they serve—one size does not fit all. Our team brings decades of experience to helping navigate financial, business and family interests as you seek to align your investment management and planning.

To address the wide-ranging needs family offices face every day, we serve as your single point of contact, helping to coordinate resources and expertise from across the firm, including the Investment Bank and Asset Management divisions.

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Thoughtful legacy planning takes time and careful planning. We can offer comprehensive guidance that takes into consideration your family’s vision, purpose and values.

We can put our experience to work for you, helping to craft a legacy designed to support others according to your wishes, during your lifetime and beyond.

Customized advice with a multigenerational approach exclusively for centimillionaire and billionaire clients who require bespoke and holistic advisory solutions. Their original thought leadership provides keen insight borne from countless conversations with prominent families.

Strategic consulting

Our team has guided successful foundations, endowments and not-for-profit organizations in making critical financial decisions to support their long-term mission.

We bring to our clients both our strategic understanding of complex investment and management needs, as well as our problem-solving experience.

Business owners and entrepreneurs

Our process takes you from the initial stages of exit or succession planning all the way through the transaction close. We develop a personalized strategy to help manage the proceeds and achieve your future financial goals—and life goals after you step away.

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Business transition & succession planning

Are you considering an exit from your business? From investment banking to business transition planning to post-liquidity wealth management, we have the experience to help you with your future plans for your business. We can connect you to the resources you need to solve any challenge that may arise.

You’re selling within the year

You’re selling within the year

You’re 3 years away from exiting

You’re 3 years away from exiting

You’re considering an exit in 5 years

You’re considering an exit in 5 years

  • Finalize your trust and estate strategies 
  • Work with us to interview and select the investment banker that works best for you
  • Finalize your exit plan and focus on getting the best deal for the sale
  • Coordinate with your investment banker to help create competitive tension among prospective buyers and meet potential acquirers, review offers and negotiate the sale
  • As needed, prepare employees and managers for the transition
  • Think about what’s next for you and your future, after the sale
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  • Refine your trust and estate strategies with your tax and legal advisors to take advantage of strategies that may increase future net proceeds from a sale*
  • Begin conducting an analysis of likely buyer interest and sector outlook, trends and business cycles to help identify the right timing of the sale
  • Build the right pre-sale advisory team, including an investment banker, attorney and CPA
  • Explore gift and estate strategies to help maximize net proceeds from a sale

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  • Discuss trust and estate strategies and tax and legal advisors to take advantage of strategies that may increase future net proceeds from a sale*
  • Fine-tune your business model to be most appealing to a buyer
  • Make sure business documentation and financial statements are in order
  • Put together a team to prepare the business and optimize value
  • Strengthen your management team
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Your primary source for financial advice

We are here to provide quality strategies customized to your needs. We concentrate on developing long-term relationships through a commitment to quality client service. You can rely on our personalized advice, first-class solutions, and extensive wealth management experience.

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    James Herring

    Managing Director–Wealth Management

    Financial Advisor

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    James Herring joins UBS Private Wealth Management from Goldman Sachs where James worked as a Managing Director since 1989. He brings over 35 years of experience working with ultra-high-net-worth executives, non-profits, and family offices. During his career, James has served as a Goldman Sachs Private Wealth Management Top Advisor, Member of the Advisors Council, a Regional Manager for the Southeast from 1996-2000 and named Co-Head of the Family Investment Office (2006-2010), a multifamily office business that he developed and launched in New York City. Prior to joining the Goldman Sachs, James served as an officer in the United States Army Reserve for nine years. James earned a BA and MBA from Vanderbilt University. He is a former president of the Owen Graduate School Alumni Board, a member of the Economic Club of New York, and is active as a board member and fundraiser for his church and several nonprofits.

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          James Herring
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        • John Gaffney New

          John Gaffney

          Vice President–Wealth Management

          Financial Advisor

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          John Gaffney has spent five years focusing on holistic wealth management solutions for family offices and private wealth clients. He previously worked at Goldman Sachs. John earned his BA from Vanderbilt University and worked in Management Consulting and Strategy before returning to Vanderbilt University's Owen School of Management for his MBA. He is a leader and fundraiser for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and active member of the Owen Graduate School alumni association.

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                John Gaffney
                299 Park Avenue,New York,NY,10017
              • Max Hoffman New

                Max Hoffman, CFA, CFP

                Senior Wealth Strategy Associate

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                Max has over 7 years of experience providing holistic wealth management and investment advice to private wealth clients and family offices. Max earned his BS from the University of South Carolina and is a CFA charterholder as well as a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER®.

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                    Max Hoffman, CFA, CFP
                    1285 Avenue Of The Americas,New York,NY,10019
                  • Reeya Shah New

                    Reeya Shah

                    Senior Wealth Strategy Associate

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                    Reeya began her Private Wealth Management career through an internship at Goldman Sachs in 2021 before joining UBS Private Wealth Management in 2023. She graduated from Drexel University in 2023 and earned her BSBA in Finance & Business Analytics.

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                          Reeya Shah
                          299 Park Avenue,New York,NY,10017
                        • Charlie Kim New

                          Charlie Kim

                          Senior Registered Client Associate

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                          Charlie joined UBS in 2015, after working for JP Morgan Private Bank and Alliance Bernstein, and brings extensive experience in operations, account administration and client service. He earned his B.S. in Finance from the University of Delaware.

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                                Charlie Kim
                                1285 Avenue Of The Americas,New York,NY,10019
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                              The first 100 days

                              Is your portfolio ready?

                              In the first 100 days of a second Trump administration, policy uncertainty continues to dominate. Do you have questions about the impact of tariffs, inflation and geopolitical developments on your investment strategy?

                              We’re here to help you make sense of it all and move forward with confidence. Make sure your portfolio is prepared for ongoing market volatility.

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