The Financial Times quotes Sally Ashford on UK legal pre-budget activity and client concerns
As reported by the Financial Times, private client lawyers have received a huge influx of enquiries in recent weeks, leading to working practices more akin to corporate lawyers, as they field out-of-hours calls, work weekends and have a series of late nights to manage the deluge.
Many UK lawyers representing wealthy clients are reporting the busiest run-up to a Budget in decades as they manage a rush of activity ahead of some potentially significant tax changes on Wednesday.
The above rings true for our Private Client team and Sally Ashford, Head of our UK Private Client team, shares her observations with the Financial Times.
She says:
We have seen a flurry of anxiety queries, questions, worries...we have clients who were thinking of doing things and those actions have been accelerated.
Read the full piece in the Financial Times here (subscription required).
