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Boodle Hatfield LLP

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At Boodle Hatfield LLP, Hayden Bailey leads a team of ‘extremely high quality, detail-oriented advisors on complex private client matters’. It is particularly skilled at advising on ’trust structures holding landed estates or large operating businesses’. The ‘very solution orientated’ team specialises in complex international wealth structuring mandates for business and private assets. In addition, it is renowned for advising some of the largest family-owned businesses and family offices in the UK and internationally on governance, risk management and wealth preservation. Simon Rylatt  has an impressive roster of high-net-worth (HNW) clients. Kyra Motley is well known for advising clients in the Middle East and acts for ten different Royal families and 28 billionaires. Salpy Kouyoumjian  is another key figure who specialises in succession, tax, wealth preservation and estate planning advice. Laurence Morgan advises international HNW individuals on their tax, estate and succession planning. Other names to note include Sue Laing; Andrea Zavos  and Sara Maccallum. Clare Stirzaker regularly advises on succession planning and related legal and tax matters for multi-generational families and their family offices.

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  • ‘The team can cover various legal and tax issues such as property conveyance, tax planning, pre-immigration planning, trusts and probate. It is a boutique law firm with a very personal and tailor-made approach. For private client matters, I would say it is one of the best in London'.

  • ‘Very reactive and down to earth with a human touch. I have been working with Salpy Kouyoumjian for many years and she is brilliant. Very knowledgeable and so professional’.

  • ‘Simon Rylatt is an exceptional private client lawyer who is a pleasure to work with. When collaborating with advisors from other disciplines he is keen to understand technical complexities and adds great value to the team'.

  • ‘The firm and in particular Salpy K has an excellent Middle East focus. We have a large ME client base and we find Salpy and her colleagues sensible in how they advise clients in relation to structuring generally and also the tax and legal ramifications of investing into the UK'.

  • 'The firm is technically excellent and I have worked with Laurence Morgan who has given technically excellent advice in a user friendly manner. Laurence is equally at home advising on cross-border succession law and taxation'.

  • ‘I am always hugely impressed when I deal with Kyra Motley. She has a real depth and understanding of clients' needs and provides clear, succinct and precise advice. The range of her practice is impressive and the connections and contacts that she has in, particularly, the Middle East family office space is noteworthy'. 

  • 'Kyra is easily one of the top Private Client Partners in London, with a solid book of clients, some of which I have personally introduced, in the UHNW category including billionaire families. Every client has been pleased with the advice and work done by Kyra'.
  • ‘Boodle Hatfield really gets the Middle East market, with Arabic speakers in the London office and a total cultural empathy for the Islamic client. Salpy Kouyoumjian is a supernova in the London galaxy of private client lawyers - super bright, super fun and super talented'.

Lawyers

Hall of Fame

The lawyers at the very top of the profession, widely known and respected by peers and clients for their longstanding involvement in market-leading work.

Simon Rylatt

Simon Rylatt

Hall of fameBoodle Hatfield LLP

Simon is a Partner in the Private Client and Tax team. Simon deals with a wide range of UK and international tax and estate planning matters for individuals, family businesses and trusts, and handles high value, contentious trust and estate disputes for both onshore and offshore clients. He also advises on long term planning strategies for wealthy families and their businesses including wealth protection structures, governance, divorce issues, pre-nuptial agreements and generational succession planning.

Leading individuals

Hayden Bailey

Hayden Bailey

Boodle Hatfield LLP

Hayden is the Head of the Private Client and Tax team at Boodle Hatfield. He has an extensive range of private client and tax planning experience and advises entrepreneurs, family business owners and city executives on their UK capital taxation strategy, wills, trusts, life assurance based products, partnerships, shareholder issues and corporate governance. Hayden also advises non-UK domiciliaries on their UK taxation exposure and asset holding structures and Family Office arrangements.

Salpy Kouyoumjian

Boodle Hatfield LLP

Salpy is a Partner in the Private Client and Tax team. Salpy has a  strong international client base and specialises in providing international tax and structuring advice to ultra high net worth entrepreneurs (and the trustees and financial institutions who service them) in relation to their multi-jurisdictional private and business assets. She has extensive expertise in advising clients on international and cross border taxation, long-term asset protection/risk management and family/business governance. Salpy has considerable experience in designing and establishing bespoke international asset-holding and wealth management structures including private trust companies, limited partnerships, family offices, pooled investment vehicles and investment management/advisory structures. Salpy also has extensive expertise in Sharia compliant wealth structuring. Salpy is fluent in Arabic, French and Armenian.

Kyra Motley

Kyra Motley

Boodle Hatfield LLP

Kyra is a Partner in the Private Client and Tax team. She specialises in multi-jurisdictional wealth planning, international tax and trusts, succession planning and family governance for high net worth and ultra high net worth individuals. She has extensive experience in advising on wealth preservation and tax efficient structures in an international context and is well recognised for advising clients in relation to complex cross-border tax and estate planning. Kyra does a lot of work with the Middle East and is recognised as a leader in the field of wealth planning involving Sharia succession, particularly in an international context.

Next Generation Partners

Laurence Morgan

Laurence Morgan

Boodle Hatfield LLP

Laurence is a Partner in the Private Client and Tax team. He specialises in advising individuals and families in the UK and abroad on their tax and estate planning and providing related advice to trustees and other private client service providers. He regularly advises on complex cross-border tax and succession planning, as well as pre-arrival planning for non-UK domiciliaries coming to the UK. This often involves working with advisors in other jurisdictions to provide coordinated advice. A significant number of Laurence’s clients have connections with the US or Spain. Laurence speaks fluent Spanish and before becoming a Partner spent time on secondment with the tax group of a leading Spanish law firm.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Hayden Bailey

Other key lawyers

Sue Laing, Andrea Zavos, Simon Rylatt, Sara Maccallum, Kyra Motley, Laurence Morgan, Salpy Kouyoumjian, Julie Howard, Clare Stirzaker