Payne Hicks Beach LLP

Private Client

Verity is an associate solicitor in the Private Client department.

Verity advises a wide range of UK and international clients, including high net worth and ultra-high net worth individuals, trustees, and family offices on a broad range of tax, trust and estate planning issues.  Her work includes:

• the preparation of wills for both UK-domiciled and non-UK domiciled individuals and advising on complex estate and succession planning;
• UK tax advice and advice on tax residency and domicile issues for high net worth individuals, including pre-arrival planning advice and advice on leaving the UK;
• advising on family succession issues, including in relation to family businesses; and
• advising on capacity issues, including preparing and registering Lasting Powers of Attorney.

Verity qualified into the Private Client department at Payne Hicks Beach in 2021 having joined the firm as a trainee solicitor in 2019.

Verity is an affiliate member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP), with Advanced Certificates in UK Tax for International Clients, Taxation of Trusts and Estates and Administration of Trusts.

Verity read Classics at Jesus College, Oxford (2016) and postgraduate African Studies at SOAS, University of London (2017) before studying for her GDL (2018) and LPC (2019) at BPP University.