Ms Beatrice Puoti > Stephenson Harwood > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Stephenson Harwood
1 FINSBURY CIRCUS
LONDON
EC2M 7SH
England
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Work Department

Employment, pensions and private wealth

Position

Beatrice’s primary focus is advising UK residents and non-residents, domicile and non-domicile individuals, private banks, trustees, and family offices, on their international tax, trust, and estate planning issues.

Beatrice has an extensive portfolio of clients and specialises in a European tax and trust practice with a particular expertise on Italian issues.

Beatrice also has significant experience in advising financial institutions and trustees on international trust and tax matters and on the ownership, structuring and acquisition of UK and non-UK real estate.

Beatrice also specialises in cross-border estate planning issues with a particular focus on all issues arising from Roman Law and Common Law application.

Beatrice is also ranked as one of the UK legal community’s best lawyers, having received the following accolades: 2022 Who’s Who Legal: Private Client; 2022 eprivateclient 50 Most Influential; 2022 The Spear’s Indices Top Recommended Tax & Trust Lawyers; Citywealth Powerwomen Awards 2019: Woman of the Year – Leadership; and Citywealth Powerwomen Awards 2017: Inspirational Women of the Year

Lawyer Rankings

London > Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate

The ‘very strong and friendly’ team at Stephenson Harwood has ‘continued to expand, the firm is hugely respected within the industry, and the quality of the partners is excellent, as is their advice. They are multi-jurisdictional and have continued to expand their services’.  It was pleased to add Beatrice Puoti to its ranks from Burges Salmon LLP. Puoti has considerable expertise in advising UK residents and non-residents, domiciled and non-domiciled individuals, private banks, trustees and family offices on their international tax, trust and estate planning issues. James Quarmby heads the department, which advises many wealthy clients ranging from multi-millionaires to ultra-high-net-worth (often high profile) individuals and families, with billions of pounds in assets. The clients are typically entrepreneurial and international. Emily Osborne leads the team’s family office advisory service. Jonathan Conder is experienced in acting for families with an US connection and also for families from SE Asia. Michael Rutili is another key figure who has become a trusted adviser to numerous, mostly European, private clients, their families and businesses.