Bio
Laura is a Private Client Partner.
Laura assists individuals, families, trustees, attorneys, executors and trustees on personal legal, tax and succession planning matters.
She specialises in wills and succession planning to include complex and trust-based wills, Letters of Wishes, succession planning, advising on Inheritance Tax (IHT) planning and lifetime gifting strategies.
With regard to Lasting Powers of Attorney and Court of Protection Matters, Laura works on Lasting Powers of Attorney (Property and Financial Affairs LPAs and Health and Welfare LPAs), Registration of Lasting Powers of Attorney, advising attorneys on their duties and powers, registration of Enduring Powers of Attorney, and Deeds of Revocation.
Her probate and estate administration work included obtaining Grants of Representation, administering estates (including intestacies), advising executors and beneficiaries, Deeds of Variation and Renunciation, estate distribution and post-death planning, the creation and administration of trusts, tax implications of trusts and estates.
Laura’s work on Trusts includes discretionary, life-interest trusts, appointment and retirement of trustees, trust tax and compliance issues, Trust Registration Service (TRS) matters with HMRC, care-fee planning considerations, advising vulnerable and elderly clients, capacity related considerations and future-decision-making arrangements.
She regularly advises high-net-worth individuals, businesses, and landowners on estate matters.
Examples of Laura’s work include:
- Assisting an elderly family member of a A-list celebrity in the preparation of a Will and Lasting Powers of Attorney for Property and Financial Affairs and Health and Welfare.
- Leading the administration of a substantial complex estate which qualified for Agricultural Property Relief and Business Property Relief and considering lifetime gifts made by the deceased.
- Supporting a multi-million-pound estate administration left to a charity created by the deceased.