Stuart Maggs > Howes Percival LLP > Norwich, England > Lawyer Profile
Howes Percival LLP Offices
FLINT BUILDINGS
1 BEDDING LANE
NORWICH
NR3 1RG
England
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Stuart Maggs
Work Department
Farms and estates, tax and wealth management, wills and probate.
Position
Stuart is a partner in the property and estates team at Howes Percival, dealing with landed estates, high-net-worth individuals and business owners. After training as a barrister he spent many years providing tax advice via accountancy firms before returning to the law once more. Stuart has 15 years’ experience in devising bespoke taxation solutions for his clients. He presents lectures and seminars regularly on topical tax issues and is CTA qualified. Stuart has particular expertise in estate planning and minimising inheritance and capital gains tax, both onshore and offshore.
Career
Pupillage at Pump Court Tax Chambers 1998; KPMG 1998-2000; BDO Stoy Hayward 2000-04; partner Spofforths LLP 2004-10; senior manager Grant Thornton LLP 2010-12; partner Howes Percival LLP 2012 to date.
Lawyer Rankings
East Anglia > Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Norwich
(Leading individuals)Howes Percival LLP has a prominent private client practice that handles work across East Anglia and beyond, and in which the Norwich office plays a central role. Tom Lawrence leads the practice following the January 2023 departure of Catherine Scott to Mills & Reeve LLP. Lawrence’s work includes advising on complex intergenerational estate planning, the creation of trusts and wills, and tax matters. Stuart Maggs provides strategic advisory and estate planning services for high and ultra-high-net-worth families and trustees. Key partner Katharine Danks frequently assists farmers, families and landed estates with issues concerning partnerships, tenancies and land projects. Senior associate Jan Tyler also stands out ‘owing to her combination of expertise and professionalism with a compassionate and down-to-earth manner’.
East Anglia > Private client > Agriculture and estates
The agriculture and estates practice at Howes Percival LLP is regarded as being ‘totally supportive, knowledgeable and approachable‘. The firm is adept in farm and rural property transactions, financing transactions, agricultural holdings and tenancies and business structuring. Norwich-based practice head and Fellow of the Agricultural Law Association Katharine Danks is described as giving advice which is ‘clear, concise and timely’. Private client partner Stuart Maggs is ‘always available, strategic and has exceptional specialist knowledge’ of tax and succession planning. Catherine Scott departed to Mills & Reeve LLP in January 2023.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading individuals East Anglia > Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Norwich
- Personal tax, trusts and probate: Norwich East Anglia > Private client
- Agriculture and estates East Anglia > Private client
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Commercial property: Cambridge
- Real estate > Commercial property: Norwich
- Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Norwich
- Real estate > Planning and environment
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Real estate > Social housing
Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Cambridge
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Norwich
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Cambridge
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Norwich
- Employment > Employment
- Employment > Health and safety
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Licensing
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Cambridge
- Public sector > Public sector
- Real estate > Construction
- Private client > Family