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9 NEW SQUARE, LINCOLN'S INN, LONDON, WC2A 3QN, ENGLAND
Tel:
Work 020 7412 0050
Fax:
Fax 020 7412 0049
DX:
61 LONDON CHANCERY LANE WC2
Web:
www.hunters-solicitors.co.uk
Email:

Jonathan Godwin-austen

Tel:
Work +44 20 7412 0050
Email:
Hunters

Work Department

Private client, tax and trusts.

Position

Partner with over 20 years’ experience in tax and estate planning for UK/non-UK individuals and trusts. Clients include a number of significant landed estates as well as senior management (both UK and non-UK domiciled) of predominantly London-based banks and professional firms.

Career

Articled Withers; qualified 1991; partner Hunters 1997; articles in ‘Trusts and Estates Law Journal’, ‘Investors Chronicle’, ‘Private Client Business’ and ‘Charity World’; video for Television Education Network; public seminar lectures on wide variety of tax, trust and estate planning issues.

Member

Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners; Law Society Probate Section; City of Westminster and Holborn Law Society; Solicitors for the Elderly; Agricultural Law Association.

Education

Charterhouse School; St Andrews University (1985 MA Hons); Guildford College of Law.

Leisure

Shooting, skiing, tennis, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

Practice Areas

Agriculture and estates; Private client - financial services

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