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Q3, 2024 Contents The Agenda 12 14 22 LIQUID LUNCH Enhanced Games founder Aron D’Souza explains why his project is more than just ‘the doping Olympics’ 24 ROBERT AMSTERDAM We in the West are sleepwalking through our terminal decline 25 ANNAMARIA KOERLING Hiring the right person to run your family office is harder than you’d think 26 MATTHEW GOODWIN The incoming government will face an unenviable tax conundrum thanks to our low-growth, high-tax economy 8 READERS’ LETTERS Our readers share their views 10 EDITOR’S LETTER By Edwin Smith 12 DIARY Chef Yannick Alléno on life at his London Pavyllon restaurant 14 PHILANTHROPY With actor and prolific charity devotee Sophie Winkleman 16 SHOT BEFORE DAWN Photographs from the Spear’s 500 Live event at the Savoy 18 THE HEDGEHOG News from around the HNW universe, including an unlikely Netflix star 30 36 The Briefing FAMILY LAW 30 END OF AN ERA As the ‘Queen Bees’ of family law begin to leave the hive, who will claim the highest-profile cases? 32 FAMILY LAW SURVEY 2024 How leading practitioners view trends and changes in the industry 34 LET THERE BE LIGHT How increased transparency in the courts is changing family law 35 BINDING IN MATRIMONY Why prenups are finally becoming more popular on these shores 37 DELAYED RATIFICATION Society has moved on – and English family law is not keeping up 38 A FAIR LEGACY We meet Sir Nicholas Mostyn, ex-judge and a family law legend
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‘I want to be a peacemaker, and the best way to do that is to help grow economies’ RICHARD ATTIAS ON CONNECTING POWER PLAYERS IN SAUDI ARABIA, p42 The Issues 42 THE CONNECTOR Meet Richard Attias, the influential mover behind the scenes of Saudi Arabia’s ‘Davos in the Desert’ 50 PRIVATELY FURIOUS Labour’s planned VAT grab on independent school fees is causing alarm throughout the industry, says Martin Vander Weyer 54 POST WAUGH INFLUENCES How the owners of the home that inspired Brideshead Revisited are nurturing its renaissance 66 ALL QUIET IN THE GREAT MALL OF CHINA John Arlidge reports on the sharp slowdown in luxury spending in China, and what it means for leading brands 50 Arcadia 71 NICK FOULKES Inside the theatrical branding of ‘Mayfair’s most decadent cocktail’ 72 DAISY DUNN What Roman emperors might have made of slimming drug Ozempic 73 SAM LEITH Authors of fiction can be divided into ‘architects’ and ‘gardeners’ 74 ROBERT JACKMAN How both Monaco and Formula E are pushing their own expansion plans 75 CHRIS MADIGAN Who will produce the first 100-year-old single malt – and does it matter? 76 RORY SACHS The blossoming relationship between a private jet company and a yacht maker 100 The Good Life 80 THE LONG ROAD TO DUBLIN New York’s favourite chef, Jean-Georges Vongerichten, has arrived in Ireland 83 BACCHUS TO THE FUTURE Jonathan Ray predicts what the wine industry of the future will look like 84 A LUCKY ESCAPE The tiny Greek island of Folegandros is an undiscovered gem 92 BLAST FROM THE PAST Mark Walton savours the MST Mk1, an Escort that’s not actually an Escort 96 WORTH THEIR WEIGHT The watch industry is hoping to strike gold with a new ra of bracelet watches 100 JEWELLERY How the Boghossian family are building on their sparkling record 106 MIDAS With entrepreneur Luca Maggiora, the man behind the rebirth of Tramp 84

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Q3, 2024

Contents

The Agenda

12 14

22 LIQUID LUNCH

Enhanced Games founder Aron D’Souza explains why his project is more than just ‘the doping Olympics’

24 ROBERT AMSTERDAM

We in the West are sleepwalking through our terminal decline

25 ANNAMARIA KOERLING

Hiring the right person to run your family office is harder than you’d think

26 MATTHEW GOODWIN

The incoming government will face an unenviable tax conundrum thanks to our low-growth, high-tax economy

8 READERS’ LETTERS

Our readers share their views

10 EDITOR’S LETTER

By Edwin Smith

12 DIARY

Chef Yannick Alléno on life at his London Pavyllon restaurant

14 PHILANTHROPY

With actor and prolific charity devotee Sophie Winkleman

16 SHOT BEFORE DAWN

Photographs from the Spear’s 500 Live event at the Savoy

18 THE HEDGEHOG

News from around the HNW universe, including an unlikely Netflix star

30

36

The Briefing

FAMILY LAW

30 END OF AN ERA

As the ‘Queen Bees’ of family law begin to leave the hive, who will claim the highest-profile cases?

32 FAMILY LAW SURVEY 2024

How leading practitioners view trends and changes in the industry

34 LET THERE BE LIGHT

How increased transparency in the courts is changing family law

35 BINDING IN MATRIMONY

Why prenups are finally becoming more popular on these shores

37 DELAYED RATIFICATION

Society has moved on – and English family law is not keeping up

38 A FAIR LEGACY

We meet Sir Nicholas Mostyn, ex-judge and a family law legend

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