Jennifer Emms

Private Client, Charity and Philanthropy

Jennifer advises on a range of private wealth matters, including taxation, trusts, estate planning, Wills and disclosure and transparency regimes (such as CRS). She has a mixture of domestic and international clients, often with complex personal and business interests across multiple jurisdictions.

Jennifer has a keen interest in charities and philanthropy, which is a key part of her practice. She spent six months as an in-house legal adviser to a large, well-known children’s charity. Since then she has helped guide donors and trustees through a broad spectrum of matters, from establishing charities to reporting serious incidents, charity mergers, grant agreements, independence and governance issues, trustee disqualification proceedings and investment duties.  

Due to her background at Linklaters, Jennifer also has significant and unique experience in both the use of trusts and the participation of trustees in commercial transactions covering (but not limited to) securitisations, escrows and trustee purchases.

Jennifer has acted for individuals, professional trustees, companies, financial institutions and a number of different types of charity from trusts to royal charter companies.

She has been recognised by eprivateclient as one of their Top 35 under 35 on several occasions and, in 2019, was named as  a “Rising Star” in the charity field by Legal 500. The 2020 Legal 500 guide lists her as a key lawyer in the areas of personal tax, trusts and probate, and charities and not-for-profit.   She regularly contributes articles on taxation, charity and philanthropy to academic publications.