Patricia Boon > Forsters LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
Forsters LLP Offices
22 Baker Street
LONDON
W1U 3BW
England
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Patricia Boon
Work Department
Private Client
Position
Partner
Career
Patricia is a Partner in the Private Client department, working with high net worth individuals and families within and outside the UK, as well as with trust companies, family offices, and private banks.
She regularly assists non-UK domiciled individuals with pre-immigration UK tax advice and works with a range of UK and non-UK based clients, advising on personal tax, trust, succession, and estate planning matters and avoidance of family disputes.
The scope of her work includes advising in relation to inter-generational transmission of wealth, cross-border estate planning, remittance issues, the UK tax treatment of UK resident and foreign trusts (for trustees, settlors, and beneficiaries), as well as on the structuring of, and UK tax implications of acquiring and holding, UK property.
Patricia regularly travels to Asia, where she advises clients on family business succession planning and family governance issues.
She is recognised as a ‘Next Generation Partner’ in The Legal 500 2023.
Patricia joined Forsters with the rest of the Gowling WLG London Private Client team in May 2017. She trained at Gowling WLG’s predecessor firm Lawrence Graham LLP, qualifying there in 2013.
Memberships
The Law Society
STEP
Lawyer Rankings
London > Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
(Next Generation Partners)Forsters LLP ‘understands the importance of top quality client service. They deliver consistently high standard work on time and within budget’. Xavier Nicholas heads the department that is praised for its ‘personal and exceptional levels of service’. It continues to be a ‘go-to’ firm for multi-dimensional matters involving billions of pounds of assets. The group acts for wealthy clients, including major entrepreneurs, international and multi-generational families, billionaires, family offices, trustees of significant cross-border estates, in addition to well-known artists and authors. Nicholas Jacob is recommended for his sophisticated private wealth planning advice and for his work on all aspects of international family governance. Anthony Thompson is one of the leading advisers to Middle Eastern UHNW clients. Guy Abrahams is another highly impressive private client lawyer. Patricia Boon works with high-net-worth individuals within and outside the UK. Alfred Liu is also recommended.
Lawyer Rankings
- Next Generation Partners London > Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Personal tax, trusts and probate London > Private client
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Employment > Senior executives
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Real estate > Residential property
Firm Rankings
- Private client > Family
- Private client > Art and cultural property
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Industry focus > Hospitality and leisure
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Smaller Deals, £10m-£100m
- Real estate > Planning
- Real estate > Social housing: local authorities and registered providers
- Real estate > Property finance
- Real estate > Commercial property: development