Edwin Coe LLP

Private Client & Charities and Non-profit

David joined the Private Client department of Edwin Coe as a partner in January 2009 from Withers LLP, where he qualified as a solicitor in 2000. He heads Edwin Coe’s Charity Group and acts for a wide range of private clients, including high-net-worth individuals and trustees and deals with a broad range of private client trust and tax work, both onshore and offshore. Much of David’s time is spent in advising private clients on cross-border issues, including the co-ordination of advice in a number of different jurisdictions.

David is particularly interested in the field of charities and philanthropy. He has advised a number of UK charities both national and local on a variety of legal issues, including the powers and duties of charity trustees, tax issues affecting charities and dealings with the Charity Commission and other regulators. David also has extensive experience of advising charitable donors, often in a cross-border context, in establishing and registering family charitable foundations and facilitating cross-border charitable gifts tax efficiently. He also works with colleagues in other practice areas across the firm to meet the full range of legal services which charities require.

Trained Withers LLP; qualified 2000. Partner at Edwin Coe LLP, 2009. Contributor to ‘McCutcheon on inheritance tax’, joint editor of charities chapter in Tottel’s ‘Revenue Law’.

The Law Society Society of Trusts and Estates Practitioners Charity Law Association Editorial Board of “The Journal of International Tax, Trust and Corporate Planning”

City of London School; Christ College Cambridge, (1996 BA (Hons) History).

Tennis, squash, golf.