Wenna Thompson > Browne Jacobson LLP > Nottingham, England > Lawyer Profile
Browne Jacobson LLP Offices
MOWBRAY HOUSE
CASTLE MEADOW ROAD
NOTTINGHAM
NG2 1BJ
England
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Wenna Thompson
Work Department
Private client and charities.
Position
Wenna is a member of STEP with over 30 years’ experience as a private client lawyer. She specialises in all aspects of private client work, forging long-standing relationships with her clients and their families, in some cases spanning several generations. She has extensive experience of advising clients on all aspects of succession planning, in particular on the use of trusts in the context of the devolution of family wealth and the preservation of family owned estates and businesses.
She advises the trustees of significant family trusts, often acting as a trustee through her directorship of the firm’s trust company. She has extensive experience advising on Wills, powers of attorney and also acts as the executor of many estates and advises on post-death tax planning.
Career
Trained Macfarlanes; qualified 1986; moved to Browne Jacobson 1989; partner Browne Jacobson 1991.
Memberships
Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners; STEP; Charity Law Association
Education
Wells Cathedral School, Somerset; Exeter College, Oxford (1983 MA Jurisprudence); College of Law, Chester.
Lawyer Rankings
East Midlands > Private client > Agriculture and estates
The estates and rural team at Browne Jacobson LLP advises a range of public and private clients on complex agricultural matters surrounding strategic land projects, farm sales and purchases, diversification schemes and agricultural tenancies. Robert Wofinden specialises in property development and strategic land transactions, while Lucy Worwood focuses onshore and offshore trust-related matters. Wenna Thompson handles all aspects of private client work with a particular focus on succession planning. Imogen Holmes is another key name.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Nottingham and Derby
- Real estate > Commercial property: Nottingham and Derby
- Real estate > Construction
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Nottingham and Derby
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Insurance > Personal injury and clinical negligence: defendant
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Real estate > Planning and environment
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Private finance initiative (PFI)
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Public sector > Public sector
- Real estate > Social housing
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport