Nick Warr heads a ‘professional, personable and knowledgeable’ team at Taylor Wessing LLP. Warr has a strong client following, advising single and multi-family offices in numerous jurisdictions, investment bankers, hedge fund managers and private equity principals. In addition, he acts as trustee for some high-profile families and acts as a strategic adviser to a number of billionaire families. Simon Phelps is recommended for his work on complex estate planning, capital and income taxation, in addition to offshore and onshore trusts. Phelps has an excellent reputation in the Asian market. Sanjvee Shah has considerable experience in advising clients on complex cross-border tax, succession and estate planning matters. Kirstie McGuigan is also highly regarded for her handling of a broad range of contentious and non-contentious matters. Also recommended is Damian Bloom, who specialises in UK and international tax and estate planning matters. Bloom has a particular focus on long-term planning for UK and non-UK domiciled individuals. Ben Lister has recently been promoted to the partnership.
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‘Nick Warr leads a diverse and growing team of easy to deal with quality people’.
‘Nick Warr - all round expertise in both tax and trusts. Damian Bloom - great all rounder and excellent client service. Dom Rothbarth - great technical brain and able to explain tough concepts well’.
‘The practice is top notch especially for private clients working in the finance industry. They have definitely an edge in this field and the quality of the work is really top notch. Always available and very nice. Nick Warr, Kunal Vyas’.
‘Taylor Wessing is a global firm with a truly impressive depth of knowledge and expertise within their private client department, and a very impressive roster of partners within their London office'.
‘A number of standouts within their team; Nick Warr obviously who is easily within the top 5 private client lawyers in London; with shout-outs to Sanjvee Shah and Ben Lister who recently (and very deservedly) made partner and is one to watch for the future'.
‘Professional, personable, knowledgeable & detailed. Joshua Boughton - responsive with well considered advice. Simon Phelps - professional at all times, providing comprehensive and well considered advice'.
‘The team are a very 'joined up' unit with strong collaborative behaviours. Technically strong and competent. Whilst not unique, the trust and confidence in the team is high and has been consistently so for a number of years'.
‘The strongest team member in my experience is Kirstie McGuigan who is technically very capable, co-ordinates the relationship management, knows personal limits but where to turn for additional support and engenders trust and confidence'.
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