Withers LLP
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Penelope Williams
- Phone020 7597 6093
- Email[email protected]
Work Department
Wealth planning.
Position
Partner specialising in cross-border estate planning for private clients in both the UK domestic and international arena. Based in London after spending three years on secondment in the US. Three main areas of focus: ‘non-doms’ living in, or looking to relocate to, the UK; families with US and UK issues needing assistance with their estate planning concerns (whether simple or complex); and international families (particularly Latin America) seeking effective governance structures through which to organise the long-term transition of wealth.
Career
Trained Cartwrights; qualified 1990; Slaughter and May 1990; Withers 1994; partner 1998.
Memberships
Law Society; Society of Trust and Estates Practitioners; International Bar Association; Tax Law Committee of the Law Society; chair of the Capital Taxes Sub-Committee of the Law Society.
Education
St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School, Bristol; Liverpool University (1987 LLB Hons 1st); University of West of England (1988 LSF First Class).
Leisure
Mother of three children.