Sarah Wray
Charles Russell Speechlys LLPCharles Russell Speechlys LLP focuses primarily on providing specialist tax and trust advice for intergenerational succession. The agile team deftly handles all aspects of strategic land purchases and sales for its ultra-high-net-worth clients, as well as advising owners on their art collections and heritage properties. Bart Peerless advises many substantial UK land and estate owners, and Henry Fea is also a highly regarded team member. Robert Blower has particular strength in UK heritage tax work, and often advises clients on conditional exemptions and offers in lieu of tax, while William Begley frequently acts for UK and non-UK domiciled clients on a wide range of tax and estate planning matters.
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‘The team provides expert and excellent tax advice in particular. They are commercial in their approach, understand the issues facing land and estate owners and can call from a wide bank of expertise from around the firm.’
‘Sarah Wray has outstanding levels of tax and trust knowledge. She is thoughtful, extremely bright and a very nice person to work with. Charles Hutton is thoughtful, clever and creative; a very good tax brain.’
‘The team make sure they understand what the client needs before offering a legal solution. They listen and respond to the context rather than just restricting their advice to the specific question raised.’
‘Bart Peerless has a wealth of experience that he applies when advising clients. He is regularly able to draw on similar situations that he has met before.'
- 'Terence Bennett is very detailed, ensuring he fully understands the information that is relevant to the advice required.’
‘I would like to mention Sarah Wray, who buzzing with good ideas.’
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Bart Peerless, Henry Fea