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Estate and Succession Planning Solicitors

We act for individuals, families, estates, trusts, family businesses, educational establishments, museums and charities. We aim to build long term relationships with clients and for families these often span several generations. A key feature of the way we work is that partners have regular and direct involvement with clients.

Click to view our Essential Guide to Estate Planning or read more on Private Wealth Planning.

We advise on a wide range of issues that may affect our clients. A core element of our work is helping clients to preserve and manage their wealth for their own benefit and for that of future generations.

While many of our clients are based in the UK, a significant number are overseas or have overseas interests and we advise on a variety of offshore and international matters.

 

We have partners able to communicate in several languages including French, Italian and Danish and with our many connections with lawyers outside the UK we are experienced in co-ordinating tax and legal advice from different countries.

We are able to call on expertise from other departments of the firm to provide a wide ranging service to our clients on all aspects of their affairs. We will also liaise with other professional advisers, including accountants, bankers, land agents, investment managers and financial advisers to provide a comprehensive and seamless service.

Payne Hicks Beach’s private client team is ranked in Chambers HNW 2021. Quotes include, “they’re always very efficient, they give good advice and they are easy to deal with…their advice is clear, objective and understandable.” A source says, “you can tell that they care about their clients by looking at the quality of their work product…they take the time to address all questions to make sure everyone at the table understands what is going on. They go above and beyond. They’re a fantastic firm.”

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Britain set to lose record numbers of millionaires- Robert Brodrick featured in ‘Todays Wills and Probate’

Robert Brodrick, Tax and Trusts expert and Chairman at Payne Hicks Beach LLP, has had his comments f...
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Anxious collectors are increasingly turning to freeport havens’- Till Vere-Hodge for ‘The Art Newspaper’

Our Art Law specialist, Till Vere-Hodge, head of our Art and Cultural Property Law department an...
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How new geographies and collectors’ behaviors are reshaping the art market- Till Vere- Hodge interviewed for Art Basel

 Till Vere-Hodge, head of our Art and Cultural Property Law department and Partner at Payne Hicks...
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Family faces £1 million inheritance tax bill over widespread issue with holiday lets- Phineas Hirsch for Money Week.

Tax and Estate Planning expert Phineas Hirsch, Partner at Payne Hicks Beach, has had his comments fe...
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Rachel Reeves to soften UK non-dom tax reforms – Robert Brodrick for the FT and Sky News

Tax and Trust expert, Robert Brodrick, comments on Rachel Reeves plan to soften UK non-dom tax refor...
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Life, Death and Growing Old Disgracefully

Emperor Meiji to Captain Nathan Algren, of Katsumoto: Tell me how he died. Algren, in response: I w...
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Non-Dom tax status: is it really a “200-year-old loophole”?

Michael Parkinson ‒ tax, trust and estate planning specialist in our Private Client Team ‒ takes...
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A brief history of the most hated tax in Britain

Tax and trusts expert, Michael Parkinson, turns his attention to the tax that eclipses all other...
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Estate Planning for Matrimonial Clients – The Life of a Marriage in Tax

Marriage, children and divorce can have significant tax and estate planning implications but also op...
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End of Year Tax & Estate Planning for UK residents

As part of our fortnightly Private Wealth Planning series, Benedict Jennings looks at steps you c...
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