James Daynes

Private Client

Professional Support Lawyer

James is a Professional Support Lawyer in the Wills, Trusts, Tax and Probate Department. He provides specialist technical support to the department on relevant client matters.

James qualified as a solicitor in 2004, moving into Private Client law in 2007 after previously working as an in house lawyer in the Life & Pensions department of a multinational insurance company. He specialises in wills, estate and capital tax planning and probate, both onshore and offshore, and charity administration. He has experience of advising a wide range of clients, including high net worth individuals, entrepreneurs, charities, families, farming clients and non-UK resident or non-UK domiciled/deemed-domiciled clients.

LLP (Hons), University of East Anglia, 1994-1997; Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice, College of Law Guildford, 2003