Tax, Trusts and Family; Private Wealth

Head of Burges Salmon's Food and Farming team. Advises on tax and estate planning for individuals, business structures, including partnership; tenure issues; complex variation of trust actions; complex probates and trust matters. Particular focus on clients who own land. Frequently lectures on capital tax issues and particularly inheritance tax reliefs for farmers and landowners.

Land agent with Savills 1988-92; self-employed consultant 1993; trained Burges Salmon, qualified 1997; partner since 2004.

Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS); PAIAM (Professional Advisors to the international Art Market); CLA (Country Land and Business Organisation).

Attended Reading University/Royal Agricultural College (1985-88); Bournemouth University (1994 CPE); College of Law, Chester (1995 LPC).