Browne Jacobson LLP
Lawyers
Wenna Thompson
- Phone0115 976 6212
- Email[email protected]
- Profilewww.brownejacobson.com
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.