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Matthew Woods

Matthew Woods

Withers LLP, London

Work Department

Wealth planning department: private client, landed estates and family business groups.

Position

Joint head of the landed estates group. Focuses on the mitigation of inheritance and capital gains taxes, and the long-term devolution of private wealth – particularly landed estates and owner-managed businesses – including advising international clients on suitable structures to manage their multinational and multigenerational needs.

Career

Trained Withers LLP; qualified 2001; partner 2007. Publications of note: ‘Financial Time’ Readers’ Questions, ‘McCutcheon and Withers Inheritance Tax Planning’, Sweet & Maxwell’s ‘Practical Trust Precedents’, ‘Practical Will Precedents’ and ‘International Trust Precedents’; STEP publication Business Families and Family. Regular speaker at internal and external conferences on tax, trust, rural estate and private client issues.

Memberships

STEP; CLA; Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust; HHA.

Education

Bournemouth School; University College London (1997 LLB law).

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