Christopher Eriksson-Lee > Brachers > Maidstone, England > Lawyer Profile
Brachers Offices
SOMERFIELD HOUSE
59 LONDON ROAD
MAIDSTONE, KENT
ME16 8JH
England
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Christopher Eriksson-Lee
Work Department
Private Client
Position
Partner and Head of Private Client
Career
Christopher is a Partner and head of Brachers’ Private Client team. He advises a diverse range of clients including business owners and those with landed estates on succession planning, the preparation of Wills, estate and tax planning, trust creation, powers of attorney and the administration of trusts and estates.
Christopher is also a director of Brachers Trust Corporation Ltd, which provides the firm’s professional executor/trustee/attorney and deputy service.
Many of Christopher’s clients are business owners looking to succession plan and a significant proportion of which are from the farming and agricultural community.
Christopher qualified as a solicitor in 2007 and specialises in capital taxes planning. He helps clients to minimise inheritance tax and capital gains tax exposure whether through Will or trust planning or otherwise as part of the administration of an estate or trust.
Christopher has particular expertise in inheritance tax planning for clients with businesses and/or agricultural assets. He is a full member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners as well as Solicitors for the Elderly and lectures for CILEX Law School on various Private Client topics.
Under Chris’ leadership, the Private Client team was recognised for their extensive experience and sensitivity shown in supporting vulnerable clients in Court of Protection and Private Deputyship matters by winning the ‘Best Deputyship Firm’ award at the UK Probate Research awards 2023.
Christopher lays claim to having drafted the world’s highest Will at a height of 5,364 metres on a trek to Mount Everest Base Camp!
Christopher specialises in:
- Wills
- Trusts
- Estate / tax planning
- Powers of Attorney
- Administration of estates and trusts
- Agricultural law
- Business succession planning
- Deeds of variation
Memberships
Lawyer Rankings
South East > Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
The ‘highly regarded’ team at Brachers, based in Maidstone and Canterbury, is ‘great and responsive’ and tends to clients in ‘a friendly, sensitive and helpful manner’. Collaborating with the corporate and commercial and real estate teams and offering specialist trusts, Court of Protection and probate teams to support family businesses and high-net-worth individuals, the practice assists with succession planning, capital taxes, estate administration, probate issues and family trusts. The ‘extremely likeable’ Christopher Eriksson-Lee demonstrates ‘sensitivity to personal matters and optimism in finding suitable solutions’ and offers significant experience in advising royalty, farmers and business owners on inheritance tax matters. The ‘efficient, knowledgeable and diligent’ Justine Sloover has an in-depth understanding of trusts spanning trust structures and offshore trust exposure as well as tax-related matters.
South East > Private client > Agriculture and estates
Often entrusted by landowners and farmers for land development matters, Brachers routinely assists educational and research institutions operating in the agricultural and rural sector. With over two decades of experience, Sarah Gaines leads the team while Christopher Eriksson-Lee is knowledgable of family trusts and is sought-after for his expertise in reducing exposure to inheritance tax. All of the individuals that have been mentioned are located in Maidstone.
South East > Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
Led by Sarah Gaines and Christopher Eriksson-Lee, Brachers caters to compliance, contentious, governance, commerical as well as property and planning issues. Mary Rimmer works in conjunction with the firm’s corporate and commercial lawyers in order to help charities achieve CIO status. All of the individuals that have been mentioned are located in Maidstone.
Lawyer Rankings
- Personal tax, trusts and probate: Kent, Surrey, Sussex South East > Private client
- Agriculture and estates South East > Private client
- Charities and not-for-profit South East > Private client
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Commercial property: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Public sector > Public sector
Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: defendant
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Employment > Employment: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Private client > Family: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Kent, Surrey and Sussex
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery