Private Client
Intro
The Private Client team advises you on your personal legal matters, such as the preparation of Wills, Lasting Powers of Attorney, setting up Trusts and attending to Probates. We ensure that your financial affairs are dealt with in a tax-efficient manner, ensuring that family members are properly provided for. We are also experienced in private client work with an international dimension, such as schemes deploying the use of offshore trusts.
Typical Work
- Drafting of Wills and Codicils
- Obtaining the Grant of Probate
- Setting up Trusts and dealing with tax related issues
- Buying and selling houses
- Tax Planning
- Consumer Disputes
- Managing the UK assets of people based overseas
Recent Transactions
- Drafting a provision in a Will to offset Inheritance Tax against works of Art to be transferred to Central Government to include liaising with museums, libraries and archives
- Negotiating with Revenue a Deed of Appointment resulting mitigating all Inheritance Tax
- Adjoining the client's property was a strip of land with unknown ownership, Following extensive investigation, we were able to trace the true owner and negotiate the purchase of the land for the client
- Conveyancing and letting of houses and flats and the purchasing of flat freeholds (enfranchisement)
