2008
Our roots
Castle’s work began in Central Asia, shaped by nearly two decades across finance, investment structuring and family-office matters.
Singapore · Family office
One family office forthe whole picture.
For nearly two decades, Castle Family Office has worked alongside high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth families, standing at the centre of their affairs. We structure assets, lead complex legal and cross-border matters, manage businesses and real estate, advance project funding, and take responsibility for the personal requirements that come with family life across countries and generations. From the first decision through implementation and ongoing management, we hold the wider context and lead the agreed work so that the family has one point of responsibility across connected matters.
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Singapore · Continuity through change
Built by enterprise.
Carried forward by generations.
2008 — 2016 — 2026
Our mission
One family office.
The whole picture.
Our mission is to give each family a central office that understands the full picture, structures what must be built, manages what must be run and carries agreed priorities into action, with continuity across generations.
One family office. The whole picture. Clear responsibility.
A perspective shaped over time
Singapore, then
and now.
Our story began before the skyline. Enterprise, adaptation and continuity connect the city’s past to the responsibilities of family wealth today.
2016
Singapore operations
Singapore became the home of our corporate operations and a base for work across regions and generations.
2026
Ten years in the city
A decade in Singapore — and a continuing commitment to bring clarity and responsibility to complex family affairs.
A working waterfront
Before the skyline, there was a river full of work.
Boats carried goods between the riverbanks and ships in the harbour; traders, crews and small businesses made the waterfront a centre of daily commerce. The city’s scale has changed. The importance of enterprise, judgement and continuity has not.
“Each generation builds on what came before, adapts to change and carries responsibility forward.”
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The family affairs are connected
One decision rarely
stands alone.
Ownership affects governance. A business decision can change a family’s plans. A development may require funding, legal work and hands-on execution at the same time.
Castle Family Office works across those connections. We understand the family’s objectives, shape a practical course of action and lead the agreed work through to completion. An engagement can combine strategic structuring, direct management and personal support.
What we lead
The whole mandate.
One point of leadership.
Each engagement is shaped around the family’s needs, with scope, authority and reporting clearly defined.
Strategic leadership. Practical management. One family-office relationship.
01Family office leadership and governance
We manage the family-office agenda and bring priorities, decisions and ongoing responsibilities into one working framework.
- Setting family priorities and managing the family-office agenda
- Establishing decision-making, reporting and accountability
- Managing workstreams across businesses, assets and jurisdictions
- Preparing family meetings and following up on decisions
- Supporting family governance and succession planning
- Preparing the next generation to understand ownership and responsibility
02Asset and ownership structuring
We design ownership arrangements around the family’s objectives and lead the work required to put them into practice.
- Reviewing the family’s ownership and asset landscape
- Structuring holdings for businesses, real estate and other assets
- Developing trust, foundation and private-vehicle structures with relevant specialists
- Aligning ownership, control, governance, succession and reporting
- Implementing structures across entities and jurisdictions
- Administering permitted changes to ownership or beneficiary arrangements
Where formal legal or fiduciary powers belong to a trustee or another appointed party, that party exercises those powers under the governing documents. Castle Family Office leads the family-side strategy and implementation.
03Legal and cross-border matters
We lead complex legal and jurisdictional work affecting the family, its businesses and its assets. We define the issue, develop a practical strategy and manage the work with qualified counsel through resolution.
- Ownership, company and contractual matters
- Cross-border structuring
- Real estate and transaction workstreams
- Dispute strategy and negotiation management
- Briefing and managing legal counsel
- Coordinating documents, decisions, deadlines and implementation
Legal opinions, court representation and work reserved to qualified legal professionals are provided by counsel under the relevant engagement. Castle remains involved to keep the legal work connected to the family’s wider objective.
04Business management
We work directly with family-owned and family-related businesses, taking on agreed strategic and operating responsibilities.
- Business strategy and planning
- Management oversight and performance reporting
- Governance, roles and accountability
- Budgets, major initiatives and operational priorities
- Ownership transitions and business continuity
- Acquisitions, disposals, financing and restructuring workstreams
Responsibilities are set out in the applicable mandate and company documents. Formal duties held by directors, boards or other office-holders remain with them.
05Real estate
We manage family real estate across ownership, development and operations, aligning each asset with the family’s objectives.
- Property and portfolio management
- Development and project oversight
- Operating plans, budgets and maintenance
- Management of tenants, operators and contractors
- Acquisition, sale, financing and restructuring workstreams
The scope can extend from strategic oversight to day-to-day management, depending on the asset and the family’s mandate. Specialist services such as brokerage, valuation, construction and legal advice are delivered by the relevant qualified providers.
06Art and other tangible assets
We coordinate the ownership, care and administration of significant personal assets, integrating them into the family’s wider asset framework.
- Artworks, collections and collection records
- Cars, classic vehicles and other significant transport assets
- Stamps, coins, antiques and collectible items
- Inventory, documentation and ownership records
- Coordination of storage, maintenance, insurance and conservation
- Acquisition, sale, valuation and specialist-adviser workstreams
Valuation, conservation, brokerage, transport, insurance placement and other specialist services are provided by appropriately qualified providers. Castle Family Office coordinates these workstreams within the family’s mandate.
07Project funding and capital raising
We help families and their businesses secure funding for projects. We shape the financing strategy, prepare the project for funding discussions and lead the commercial process through negotiations and closing.
- Defining capital needs, timing and funding objectives
- Developing the financing structure and commercial proposition
- Preparing project and funding materials
- Identifying and engaging potential funding sources
- Leading discussions, information requests and negotiations
- Managing due diligence, documentation and closing workstreams
- Coordinating post-funding reporting and stakeholder communication
Where a fundraising or financing activity requires regulatory permission, that activity is conducted by an appropriately authorised entity.
08Alternative investments and private structures
We work with families on alternative investments and private structures from concept through ongoing oversight. We shape the structure, terms, governance and operating arrangements around the family’s objectives.
- Defining the family’s objectives and participation requirements
- Structuring ownership, governance and reporting
- Shaping commercial terms and leading negotiations
- Establishing private vehicles with relevant professionals
- Managing relationships with trustees, administrators, custodians and other appointed parties
- Overseeing agreed reporting, governance and operational matters
- Coordinating permitted changes to structures, terms or beneficiaries
Formal trustee powers, custody, client-money handling, dealing and other regulated functions remain with the entities appointed and authorised to perform them.
09Concierge and personal affairs
We manage agreed personal and family requirements with the same attention as the family’s business and asset matters.
- Travel and residence arrangements
- Relocation and local support
- Education-related arrangements
- Household and personal-staff management
- Property operations and local service providers
- Ground transport and other day-to-day requirements
- Trusted providers across countries
Immigration, medical, legal, tax and other specialist advice is provided by qualified professionals or relevant authorities.
ABOUT
A central office for families with complex affairs.
Castle Family Office works with high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth families whose wealth, businesses, assets and personal lives require joined-up leadership.
We take responsibility for understanding the full situation, structuring the work, managing agreed assets or businesses and carrying priorities through implementation. Our work brings together ownership across generations, legal and cross-border matters, business and property management, project funding, private structures and the practical needs of family members in different countries.
We lead across these boundaries and remain involved as the work progresses, with scope, authority and reporting clearly defined for each engagement.
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Our story
Nearly two decades of work.
Ten years in Singapore.
The work that became Castle Family Office began in Central Asia in 2008. Singapore became the home of our corporate operations in 2016, and in 2026 we mark a decade in the city. Our perspective has been shaped by nearly two decades across finance, investment structuring and family-office work. Singapore’s history reflects principles that matter in family affairs: enterprise, continuity and the ability to adapt.
Our approach
A clear sequence from understanding to action.
We turn a complex family brief into a defined plan, lead the agreed work and remain accountable as circumstances evolve.
- 01
Understand the family
Establish objectives, priorities and responsibilities.
- 02
Take the full view
Map the people, structures, businesses, assets and jurisdictions involved.
- 03
Design the response
Set the structure, roles, sequence of actions and reporting.
- 04
Lead implementation
Manage the agreed work, coordinate the relevant parties and keep progress visible.
- 05
Stay accountable
Where appointed, continue to manage or oversee the relevant family-office, business or asset responsibilities.
Our principles
The standards that guide our work with families.
Founder
Eldiyar Muratov
Eldiyar Muratov is the Founder of Castle Family Office. With nearly two decades of experience across wealth management, investment banking, corporate finance, M&A, fundraising and financial services, he has founded and led businesses in multiple jurisdictions, guiding their growth and transformation. He works with UHNW families, family offices, private-equity firms and institutional investors on complex transactions, capital raising and cross-border business. His career includes senior executive roles in financial services across major international financial centres.
Eldiyar studied at Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation and completed executive education programmes at Oxford Saïd Business School, Harvard Kennedy School, INSEAD, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Cape Town. His contributions have appeared in Forbes, Hubbis, Asian Private Banker and MandateWire, a Financial Times company.
He is the author of the Inside the Family Office book series, which offers practical insight into how families build, structure and preserve wealth across generations.
Research & Reports
A wider perspective.A clearer view.
Annual family office report 2026
Capital, capability and continuity in a more fragmented world.
A global review of family office research, market conditions and operating priorities.
Media coverage
In conversation about
family wealth.
Interviews on how family wealth is invested, protected and managed across generations and borders.
Singapore-Based Multi-Family Office Seeks ‘Selective, Capital-Disciplined’ Managers
A discussion of selective manager selection, capital preservation, co-investments and liquidity.
Topics covered
Manager selectionCapital preservationCo-investmentsLiquidity
‘Liquidity is a strategic weapon’: Castle Family Office focuses on preservation over participation
Why the office prioritises capital preservation, structural protection and liquidity as strategic optionality.
Topics covered
Liquidity as optionalityDownside protectionJurisdictionGenerational wealth
‘Not just walking the poodle’: EAMs pivot to life coordination services to win UHNW clients
Why globally mobile families increasingly need one trusted point of responsibility across jurisdictions.
Topics covered
Cross-border livingLife logisticsPrivacy & safetyAccountability
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A mandate shaped around your family
Tell us what your family needs to resolve.
Whether you are structuring assets, managing a business or property portfolio, funding a project or addressing a personal or cross-border matter, contact Castle Family Office for a confidential initial conversation.
Singapore office
Castle Family Office20 Upper Circular Road, 02/10-12The Riverwalk
Singapore 058416Contact us on LinkedIn
Information and policies
Clear terms.
Careful stewardship.
How we handle information, the terms for using this website and the browser storage it currently uses.
Privacy Policy
Last updated: October 2026
Castle Family Office respects the privacy of the people whose information is entrusted to us. This Privacy Policy explains how Knightsbridge Capital Markets Pte. Ltd., which uses Castle Family Office as a trademark, collects, uses, stores and discloses personal data in connection with this website and, where relevant, an enquiry or family-office engagement.
Who is responsible for your personal data
Knightsbridge Capital Markets Pte. Ltd. is a company registered in the Republic of Singapore (Registration No. 201621967C). Its business address is 20 Upper Circular Road, 02/10-12, The Riverwalk, Singapore 058416.
The designated Data Protection Officer is David Tan. For privacy enquiries, including access or correction requests, contact him at legal@castle-familyoffice.com or write to Knightsbridge Capital Markets Pte. Ltd. at the address above and mark your correspondence “Data Protection”. Please do not send identity documents or confidential family, financial or legal records through LinkedIn or other public channels.
Personal data we may collect
The information we collect depends on how you interact with us and the nature of your enquiry or engagement. It may include:
- Contact details, such as your name, email address, telephone number, business address, country or region
- Professional information, such as your role, organisation and area of responsibility
- Information you include in an enquiry or correspondence
- Where you discuss or enter a family-office engagement, information relevant to the agreed work, which may include identity and residency details, family and business relationships, ownership and asset information, financial circumstances, source-of-wealth information, objectives and instructions
- Information required to conduct conflict, identity, due-diligence or other checks where these are applicable to the proposed engagement
- Technical information generated when you use the website, such as IP address, browser type, device information, pages visited, approximate location derived from technical data and cookie preferences
Please do not send identity documents or confidential financial, legal or family records through LinkedIn or other public channels. If such information is needed, we will agree an appropriate secure method of transfer.
How we collect information
We may collect information directly from you, from your authorised representative or adviser, through your communications with us, through the website, and from third parties where this is permitted and relevant to the work you have asked us to undertake. We may also receive information from service providers or public sources when appropriate for the purpose and permitted by applicable law.
How we use personal data
We may use personal data to:
- Respond to enquiries and communicate with you
- Understand a family’s requirements and assess whether a proposed engagement is appropriate
- Establish, administer and perform an agreed mandate
- Coordinate work with the family, its representatives, professional advisers and appointed institutions
- Maintain records, manage billing and administer our business
- Conduct conflict, identity, due-diligence or financial-crime checks where required or appropriate to the engagement
- Protect our systems, prevent misuse and investigate suspected unlawful activity
- Establish, exercise or defend legal rights and meet applicable legal or regulatory requirements
- Send relevant company information where permitted and, where required, with your consent
- Understand and improve the operation of this website, subject to your cookie preferences and applicable requirements
We collect, use and disclose personal data for purposes that are appropriate in the circumstances and that have been communicated to you, in accordance with applicable data-protection requirements.
How we disclose personal data
We do not sell or rent personal data. Where relevant to the purpose for which it was collected, we may disclose information to:
- Professional advisers, including legal, tax, accounting and other specialists
- Trustees, administrators, custodians, banks, asset managers and other institutions appointed in connection with a family’s affairs
- Service providers that support our operations, such as website, email, hosting, security and document-management providers
- A family’s authorised representatives or other parties involved in an agreed matter
- Regulators, courts, law-enforcement bodies or other authorities where disclosure is required or permitted by law
- A successor or counterparty in connection with a corporate transaction, where permitted by law and subject to appropriate safeguards
We share only information relevant to the purpose and take steps to ensure that service providers handle personal data appropriately.
International transfers
Family-office work can involve people, assets and professional advisers in more than one country. Personal data may therefore be transferred to or accessed from another jurisdiction when this is necessary for an enquiry or agreed engagement. Where applicable, we take steps required by law to ensure that transferred personal data receives an appropriate standard of protection.
Security and retention
We use reasonable administrative, technical and organisational safeguards designed to protect personal data against unauthorised access, loss, misuse, alteration or disclosure. No method of internet transmission or electronic storage can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
We retain personal data for as long as it is needed for the purpose for which it was collected, to administer an ongoing relationship, or to meet applicable legal, regulatory, accounting or business requirements. When information is no longer needed, we take steps to delete it or remove identifying details, subject to any continuing legal obligations.
Your choices and rights
Depending on applicable law, you may be entitled to request access to or correction of personal data, withdraw consent for processing based on consent, or ask questions about how your information is handled. Some requests may be limited by legal or contractual obligations. We will respond in accordance with applicable law and may need to verify your identity before acting on a request.
To make a request, write to the Singapore office address above, marking your correspondence “Data Protection”. We may ask you to verify your identity before responding.
Third-party websites
This website may contain links to third-party websites. Their privacy practices are governed by their own notices, and we are not responsible for their content or handling of personal data.
Changes to this policy
We may update this Privacy Policy when our information-handling practices or applicable requirements change. The current version will be published on this website with its latest update date.
Terms of Use
Last updated: October 2026
These Terms of Use apply to your access to and use of the Castle Family Office website. By using the website, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, please stop using the website.
Who we are
Castle Family Office is a trademark of Knightsbridge Capital Markets Pte. Ltd., a company registered in the Republic of Singapore (Registration No. 201621967C). The company’s business address is 20 Upper Circular Road, 02/10-12, The Riverwalk, Singapore 058416.
General information only
The content on this website is provided for general information. It does not constitute legal, tax, accounting, investment or other professional advice, a recommendation, or an offer or solicitation to enter into a transaction or purchase a financial product. The information is not tailored to any individual family’s circumstances and should not be relied upon as a substitute for advice from an appropriately qualified professional.
Any services provided by Castle Family Office are subject to a separate written engagement that defines the scope, authority, responsibilities and applicable terms. Nothing on this website creates an advisory, fiduciary, agency or other professional relationship.
Knightsbridge Capital Markets Pte. Ltd. is a holding company and is not licensed to manage client money. Castle Family Office may coordinate with independent providers where a matter requires a regulated service. Any such regulated activity is performed by the relevant appropriately authorised provider under its own engagement, not by Knightsbridge Capital Markets Pte. Ltd.
Accuracy and availability
We take reasonable care in preparing website content, but do not warrant that it is complete, current or free from error. Information may change without notice. We may amend, suspend or remove any part of the website at any time.
The website and its content are intended for use only where lawful. Information about services does not mean that a service is available to every person or in every jurisdiction.
Third-party websites
Links to third-party websites are provided for convenience. We do not control or endorse those websites and are not responsible for their content, availability, terms or privacy practices. Your use of a third-party website is at your own discretion and subject to its terms.
Intellectual property
The website, its text, design, graphics, photographs, logos and other materials are protected by intellectual-property laws. Castle is a trademark of Knightsbridge Capital Markets Pte. Ltd. or is used by it under applicable rights. You may view and print website pages for personal, non-commercial use. You may not reproduce, modify, distribute, publish or commercially exploit website materials without prior written permission, except where applicable law permits.
Third-party names, marks and materials remain the property of their respective owners.
Acceptable use
You must not use the website unlawfully, interfere with its operation or security, attempt to gain unauthorised access to its systems, introduce malicious code, or use automated means to collect information from it in a way that disrupts or misuses the website.
Liability
To the extent permitted by applicable law, Castle Family Office and Knightsbridge Capital Markets Pte. Ltd. exclude liability for loss arising from reliance on general website content, interruption or unavailability of the website, or the acts and content of third-party websites. Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability or rights that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.
Privacy and cookies
Personal data is handled in accordance with our Privacy Policy. This website’s use of browser storage is explained in our Cookies Policy; you can block or clear browser storage through your browser settings.
Changes to these terms
We may update these Terms of Use from time to time. The current version and its update date will be published on this website. Continued use of the website after an update means that you accept the revised terms, to the extent permitted by applicable law.
Governing law
These Terms of Use are governed by the laws of Singapore. The courts of Singapore have jurisdiction over disputes relating to these terms, subject to any mandatory rights or jurisdictional rules that apply.
Contact
Questions about these terms may be sent in writing to Knightsbridge Capital Markets Pte. Ltd., 20 Upper Circular Road, 02/10-12, The Riverwalk, Singapore 058416.