Gemma Helsdon > Ashtons Legal > Norwich, England > Lawyer Profile

Ashtons Legal
TRAFALGAR HOUSE
MERIDIAN WAY
NORWICH
NR7 0TA
England
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Work Department

Personal Tax, Trusts and Probate

Position

Senior Associate

Career

Gemma is a Senior Associate in our Lifetime Planning team.

She is experienced in Wills, Estate Administration and Probate, Inheritance Tax Planning, Powers of Attorney, Trusts, and lifetime and succession planning for high net-worth clients.

Gemma worked at a medium-sized law firm with offices across Norfolk for 11 years before joining Ashtons. She has experience in assisting individuals and their agents (including high net-worth clients) in all aspects of lifetime and succession planning for themselves, their families and their businesses, alongside their other trusted advisors.

The most enjoyable part of Gemma’s job is fostering and nurturing relationships with individuals, their families, and other advisors on a long-term basis. She values the trust that clients place in her to give advice and offer solutions that are not only of a high technical quality but are also tailored to their specific needs and delivered in a timely manner.

Gemma qualified as a solicitor in 2015. She is a full member of the Society of Trusts and Estates Practitioners (STEP) and has a STEP Advanced Certificate in Will Drafting.

You can find out more about Gemma in our Spotlight series: Spotlight On… Gemma Helsdon.

Outside of work, Gemma has been a Trustee of the RSPCA (Mid-Norfolk and North Suffolk) branch for five years. She is also on the local STEP committee. Gemma is an animal lover with a cat, rabbits, fish and a Giant African Land Snail. She loves baking and her bravest bake was making her daughter’s first birthday cake.

Lawyer Rankings

East Anglia > Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Norwich

Ashtons Legal has a deep bench of talent across its offices and Norwich, where senior associates Karen Bacon and Gemma Helsdon are the standout practitioners, is no exception. ‘This team is super-efficient, always approachable, very helpful‘, says one client. Helsdon and long-standing STEP member Bacon frequently handle estate administration, probate, inheritance tax planning, Powers of Attorney, trusts, and lifetime planning for high-net-worth clients. ‘They will always go the extra mile for the client‘.