Trusts and succession planning to protect what you've built.
Structured trusts and succession planning to protect assets, provide for loved ones, and pass wealth on with clarity and confidence.
Trusts and succession planning are about deciding, on your terms, how your wealth passes to the people and causes you care about - and shielding it along the way. We advise on the full range of trust structures, from discretionary and life interest trusts to trusts for children, vulnerable beneficiaries, and property. Where a family business is involved, we help you plan the orderly transfer of shares and control, so the enterprise you have built continues without disruption or dispute.
Good planning matters because the alternative is uncertainty. Without a clear structure, assets can be exposed to unnecessary tax, claims from creditors or former partners, or the consequences of a beneficiary's own vulnerability or inexperience. A well-drafted trust can ringfence a family home, provide for a child with additional needs, protect wealth across generations, and give you a measured way to pass on control rather than simply hand it over. For business owners, succession planning aligns your will, shareholders' agreement and lifetime gifts so nothing is left to chance.
As private client specialists led by Safia Iftikhar (SRA 812098), and a Legal 500 UK Leading Firm, we take the time to understand your family, your assets and your intentions before recommending a structure. Advice is senior-led from our Manchester and London offices, and we are happy to begin with a no-obligation initial discussion on 0330 808 0849.
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My mother's estate had a house, four bank accounts nobody could find and two siblings who were not speaking. It was dealt with in seven months and I did almost none of it.
I was told what would happen, when it would happen, and then it happened in that order. After a year of everything else going wrong, that mattered more than I can say.
The inheritance tax position was not what I had assumed. They found two reliefs I had never heard of and explained both in language I could follow.
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