Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP

Private client and tax.

Clare is a partner and head of the London private client team. She specialises in tax and estate planning to include the administration of large and complex estates, often with an international or contentious aspect; will and trust drafting, elderly client and capacity issues and a wide range of asset protection and equity work.

Trained Rooks Rider; qualified 1994; Greenwoods 1995-97; Rooks Rider 1997-11, associate 2001, partner 2004; partner Penningtons 2011. She was a panel deputy of the Office of the Public Guardian for many years.

Publications of note: chairs the editorial board for the England and Wales and UK entries for the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners’ ‘International Yearbook’. She also writes the probate section. Consulting editor of 'Family Offices: The STEP Handbook for Advisors'.

STEP; ACTAPS.

Stratford-upon-Avon Grammar School for Girls; University of Central England Birmingham (LLB Hons 2(1) and Law Society Finals).