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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.

 

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Regime change: The beginning of the end of the remittance basis

We summarise the changes to the “non-dom” regime that are expected from April 2025 and provide analysis of the policy details available so far.

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Meet our private client lawyers

Charles Russell Speechlys is absolutely first rate in the private client practice, with deep experience and expertise in complex, multi-jurisdictional planning and litigation. All of their partners are impressive, as are their associates."

Legal 500 UK, 2025, Private Client – Personal Tax, Trusts and Probate

Technical leaders in their field of expertise. Technically proficient advice delivered in a highly personable manner."

Legal 500 UK, 2024, Private Client Law

I am very impressed with Charles Russell Speechlys' ability to tackle complex and challenging technical tax matters. The team demonstrated significant knowledge of the industry sector."

Chambers High Net Worth 2023, Private Client
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The remittance basis: how did we get here?

The remittance basis is a special tax treatment for UK residents who are not domiciled in the UK and have foreign income and gains. Here we outline how it has changed over time.

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Our private client services

Family lawyers

Family

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

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Family Office Legal Services

Family Offices

For wealthy families looking to set up a family office.

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Immigration Legal Services

Immigration

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International Wealth Structuring Legal Services

International Wealth Structuring

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

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Mental Capacity & Court of Protection Legal Services

Mental Capacity & Court of Protection

For those preparing documents to help protect finances and welfare when you no longer have the capacity to act.

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Philanthropy Legal Services

Philanthropy

For philanthropists and sustainable investors.

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Private Property Legal Services

Private Property

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

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Reputation Management Lawyers

Reputation Management

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

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Private Wealth Disputes

Private Wealth Disputes

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

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Tax Disputes & Investigation Lawyers

Tax Disputes & Investigations

Handling disputes and investigations for you across all areas of tax.

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UK Trust Establishment, Administration & Taxation Lawyers

UK Trust Establishment, Administration & Taxation

For those wishing to utilise trust structures and the administration of this.

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UK Wealth Structuring Legal Services

Wealth Structuring

For those wishing to draft a Will to distribute their assets through efficient structures.

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  • The Murdochs and the Buffetts – succession planning for billionaires

    Tamasin Perkins

    Insights

  • Jurisdictions: choosing the right base for your family office

    Insights

  • The Financial Times quotes Catrin Harrison on wealthy individuals increasingly using life insurance to manage inheritance tax bills

    Catrin Harrison

    In the Press

  • Professional Adviser quotes Julia Cox on the potential for a future UK 'wealth tax'

    Julia Cox

    In the Press

  • Family Investment Companies: Rising Popularity Amid Business Property Relief Changes

    Mary Perham

    Insights

  • Thomas Moran and Ruth Morris write for Prime Resi on the Prime London market and the wider impact of rental reform

    Thomas Moran

    In the Press

  • UK tax considerations for US persons relocating to the UK

    Matthew Radcliffe

    Insights

  • Offshore trusts: Have reports of their demise been greatly exaggerated?

    Dominic Lawrance

    Insights

  • Keeping compliant: Navigating SFO regulations globally

    Christopher Gothard

    Insights

  • Valuable assets protection from death, disputes, and divorce

    Sarah Jane Boon

    Insights

  • Q&As: The Evolution of Family Offices

    Amira Shaker-Bortman

    Insights

  • Next Gen: Upholding family values

    Elinor Boote

    Insights

  • Relocation: Important factors to consider before moving

    Insights

  • The Two Most Feared Foreign Tax Provisions in the One Big, Beautiful Bill: Now Eliminated or Defanged

    Ivan Lu

    Quick Reads

  • To share or not to share, that is the question. The Supreme Court hands down judgment in ‘big money’ divorce case Standish v Standish and clarifies the position regarding matrimonialisation and the sharing principle

    Miranda Fisher

    Insights

  • Courts are not couples’ therapists - and that’s a good thing

    Neeva Desai

    Quick Reads

  • City AM quotes Dominic Lawrance on the suitability of a non-dom tiered tax regime (TTR)

    Dominic Lawrance

    In the Press

  • Liz Gifford, Janine Regan and Courtney Benard write for New Law Journal on an amendment to the Data (Use and Access) Bill which will allow UK charities to send direct marketing emails to supporters without prior opt-in consent

    Liz Gifford

    In the Press

  • Assisted Dying Bill: Can I express my wish for an assisted death?

    Kathryn Reid

    Quick Reads

  • Spotlight on small businesses and high net worth individuals as HMRC mind the gap

    Cora Hardy

    Quick Reads

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