About
Henry is a private client lawyer with extensive cross border experience, gained from working in both the UK and Switzerland. He advises individuals, partnerships, families and trustees on tax, trusts and succession planning, often where assets and interests span multiple generations and jurisdictions.
Clients value Henry’s ability to provide clear, practical advice on complex issues, and his collaborative approach when working alongside other professional advisers.
Cross border tax and succession planning
A core part of Henry’s practice is advising on international tax and trust matters, including issues around becoming, or ceasing to be, UK resident. He regularly advises on the establishment and operation of offshore trusts and other ownership structures.
Henry has significant experience helping clients to regularise tax affairs in the UK and overseas, including through disclosure regimes and international agreements.
Landed estates, heritage, agriculture and UK estates
Henry advises on UK landed estates, heritage and agriculture, supporting families, partnerships and trustees with long term succession planning and estate administration. His work includes advising on farming, trading partnerships, as well as on UK wills, probate and the administration of estates, often where property or family businesses, including agricultural interests, form a central part of family wealth.
He also advises on the establishment and governance of trusts and charities connected to estates and heritage assets, as well as tax mitigation relating to heritage assets.
International families and collaborative advice
Henry’s clients include international families, trustees, foundations, banks, private companies and trust companies. He regularly works with foreign lawyers and other advisers to ensure advice is coordinated and appropriate across jurisdictions.
While based in Geneva, Henry was actively involved with the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) and continues to comment on legal developments affecting private clients.
Insight and commentary
Following changes to inheritance tax reliefs announced in October 2024, Henry has been quoted in the Times, Sunday Telegraph, Financial Times and Tax Journal, providing insight on the implications for families and estate owners.
Practising jurisdiction
Henry is admitted to practise in England and Wales.
Experience
- Advising a UK family, their trustees, executors and family office on various tax, trust and succession matters relating to their assets which include a landed estate, heritage chattels and a London commercial property portfolio
- Advising a Liechtenstein Foundation which indirectly owned, amongst other things, a portfolio of investments and a substantial UK landed estate, on tax matters relating to the establishment of the foundation by a non-domiciled individual and on the ultimate sale of the estate and the distribution of the foundation's assets to the beneficiaries
- Advising a UK resident non-domiciled individual in relation to the establishment and funding (with over £100m) of an English charity
- Advising non-UK domiciled individuals prior to moving to the UK on tax, trusts and succession matters
