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Wilsons

STEYNINGS HOUSE, SUMMERLOCK APPROACH, SALISBURY, SP2 7RJ, ENGLAND
Tel:
Work 01722 412412
Fax:
Fax 01722 411500
DX:
58003 SALISBURY 1
Web:
www.wilsonslaw.com
Email:
Salisbury, London, Bristol

Matthew Bennett

Tel:
Work +44 1722 427653
Email:
Wilsons

Work Department

Private client.

Position

Matthew is a partner in the private client team. He specialises in advising business owners, entrepreneurs and high-net-worth individuals on the management of their wealth and personal affairs, with a particular focus on tax. His clients include onshore and offshore trustees and both foreign and UK domiciled individuals. He also advises on wills, inheritance tax and capital gains tax planning, asset structuring and all aspects of trusts. He previously sat on the Camelot panel advising National Lottery winners in both London and the West of England.

Career

Trained Baileys Shaw and Gillett; qualified 1994; Macfarlanes; Osborne Clarke 1998; partner and head of owner-managed business unit in private capital department; partner in private client department Wilsons 2006.

Member

Chartered Institute of Taxation.

Education

Sherborne School, Dorset; Magdalene College, Cambridge (MA English Literature).

Leisure

Skiing, hockey, windsurfing, fellow of the Royal Geographic Society.

Practice Areas

Private client; Tax - international

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