Our Private Client Group provides specialist legal and taxation advice to private, institutional and commercial clients.
We focus on providing expert technical advice on trust, estate and charity law issues and on the creation and implementation of innovative and efficient arrangements for the preservation, management and transfer of wealth. We are dedicated to providing a top quality personal service with a strong emphasis on meeting clients’ needs, discussing their concerns and carrying out their wishes at every stage of life.
Our expertise includes:
- Succession law including the preparation of wills and the administration of estates
- Trust law including the establishment, administration and break up of onshore or offshore trusts
- Asset management and protection
- Family partnerships
- Pre-marriage planning and pre-nuptial agreements
- The law of capacity, enduring powers of attorney and advanced healthcare directives
- Philanthropy on a national and international basis
- Charity law including the establishment, regulation and reorganisation of charities
- Inheritance tax and all taxation issues affecting estates and trusts
We are also skilled at internationally-structured succession planning and estate administration.
We work closely with our Litigation & Dispute Resolution Department on contentious private client issues including succession claims, trust disputes and marital disputes and with our other colleagues on corporate and tax matters.
Our work is necessarily discreet, and our clients remain confidential.