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Private Client Legal Services
Individuals have very different needs to businesses, both emotionally and practically.
This differentiation has shaped the legal industry and how we do business, to ensure we have specialist private client lawyers responding to your personal plans across multiple areas in the UK and globally, such as tax planning, family and relationship decisions, property and philanthropy.
Our private client lawyers
We have detailed below the specific technical areas we can support you with as an individual, according to the legal framework in which we operate. These may involve succession, tax, family disputes, divorce, or buying and selling properties.
If you relate to any of the following areas, you may also be interested in our broader expertise supporting your businesses, business interests, business property, employees, contractual disputes, amongst others things, which can be found in the links below.
- International Private Wealth
- Investors & Entrepreneurs
- Landed Estates & Heritage Property
- Professionals & Senior Executives
Meet our private client lawyers
Our private client services

Family
We help you plan for the future, for your relationship and your children. Our approach is humane, sophisticated and pragmatic.

Immigration
Whether you require UK immigration assistance as an individual or as an organisation, our specialist lawyers can help you.

International Wealth Structuring
We advise international individuals, and their trustees and advisers, on the establishment and administration of asset holding structures.

Mental Capacity & Court of Protection
For those preparing documents to help protect finances and welfare when you no longer have the capacity to act.

Private Property
For those with personal property assets or those looking to purchase them.

Reputation Management
Our team of experienced media dispute specialists is highly attuned to advising private individuals on ‘reputation management’ issues.

Private Wealth Disputes
We provide tailored solutions for all varieties of domestic and international disputes for families and private wealth professionals.

Tax Disputes & Investigations
Handling disputes and investigations for you across all areas of tax.

UK Trust Establishment, Administration & Taxation
For those wishing to utilise trust structures and the administration of this.

Wealth Structuring
For those wishing to draft a Will to distribute their assets through efficient structures.
Our awards
Our thinking
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A Labour government: what might be in store for personal taxation?
Sarah Wray
Quick Reads
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Investment Week quotes Julia Cox on the proposed scrapping of inheritance tax
Julia Cox
In the Press
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Sarah Higgins and David Wells-Cole write for Wealth Briefing on the pitfalls of using unregulated legal services
Sarah Higgins
In the Press
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5 top tips to make estate administration easier for your executor
Jessica Dawkins
Quick Reads
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The Financial Times quotes Julia Cox on tax planning under a potential Labour government
Julia Cox
In the Press
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The Times quotes Suzanne Marriott on the legal ramifications of stolen artefacts
Suzanne Marriott
In the Press
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The Financial Times quotes James Riby on London’s reputation as ‘divorce capital’ of the world
James Riby
In the Press
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The i quotes Katie Talbot on the merits of putting a life insurance policy into a trust
Katie Talbot
In the Press
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NSPCC urges Government to protect children from domestic abuse during holidays
Shivi Rajput
Quick Reads
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A brief look at HMRC v A Taxpayer [2023] UKUT 00182 (TCC)
Dominic Lawrance
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An exceptionally harsh judgment? Exceptional circumstances revisited
Dominic Lawrance
Insights
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Record success for Charles Russell Speechlys in Chambers High Net Worth 2023 directory
Piers Master
News
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eprivateclient quotes Sarah Higgins and David Wells-Cole on the CMA’s investigation into will-writing and quickie divorce legal services
Sarah Higgins
In the Press
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Sally Ashford and Oliver Auld write for International Adviser on the role of a trustee in a family trust
Sally Ashford
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eprivateclient quotes Marcus Yorke-Long on on social media and family office
Marcus Yorke-Long
In the Press
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Suzanne Marriott writes for The Times on predatory marriages
Suzanne Marriott
In the Press
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Atonement and post separation endeavour: wife keeps £1m gift from husband after his affair and will receive a share of his business’ future profits
Sophia Leeder
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Pre-Settled Status to be automatically extended by two years
Paul McCarthy
Quick Reads
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The Telegraph quotes William Marriott on hidden costs to consider when dealing with the death of a loved one
William Marriott
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Update on Tax Reporting for Trustees of Trusts with Canadian Connections
Francis I Rojas
Insights
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Julia Cox writes for International Adviser on how UK clients should plan for a potential Labour government
Julia Cox
In the Press
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Can a financial claim in divorce proceed after the death of either party?
Sarah Higgins
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Saudi Center for Commercial Arbitration publishes new Arbitration Rules
Peter Smith
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The Budget’s pension changes: an opportunity for inheritance tax planning?
Sarah Wray
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