
Verity is an Associate in the Private Client Department.
Verity advises a broad range of UK and international clients, including individuals, entrepreneurs, onshore and offshore trustees, family offices and charities. Verity’s practice covers a broad range of personal tax, trust and estate planning issues, including:
- advising internationally mobile individuals on the UK tax and residence implications of relocation (including pre-arrival and departure planning);
- long term structuring and tax efficient estate planning, including for entrepreneurial family businesses;
- estate planning in the context of complex divorce proceedings;
- the creation and management of trusts and associated tax planning;
- the preparation of wills for UK domiciled and non-domiciled (non-dom) individuals; and
- advising on capacity issues and planning, including the preparation and registration of Lasting Powers of Attorney.
Verity works closely with firm’s contentious trusts and estates, family, corporate, probate and property teams.
Verity trained at Payne Hicks Beach, having joined the firm in 2019, and qualified as a solicitor in 2021.
In 2025, Verity became a full member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP), having been awarded a distinction in the STEP Diploma. Verity was awarded STEP Advanced Certificates in the Administration of Trusts, the Administration of Estates, the Taxation of Trusts and Estates and UK Tax for International Clients across 2023 and 2024.
Verity read Classics at Jesus College, Oxford and postgraduate African Studies at SOAS, University of London, before training to be a solicitor.