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Jim Aveline
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- Work 0117 939 2283
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Work Department
Private client and wealth structuring.
Position
Partner in private client and wealth structuring department. Specialises in tax and estate planning for both UK and offshore clients. This includes advising landed estates and diversified farm businesses on their various tax, trust and agricultural issues. He also has a particular focus on succession planning and structuring for family business owners and heads up Burges Salmon’s Family Business team. His international work includes advising resident and non-resident clients on their global trust and wealth structuring and advising on structures to pass their wealth on to the next generation. Recent examples of work include: advising an international family with £300m+ assets on their offshore structures, innovative partnership and trust structuring to claim Entrepreneur’s Relief on a record breaking agricultural land sale; advising the beneficiaries on the administration and winding up of a Cayman and UK estate and holding structure to minimise IHT and CGT; drafting a Family Charter to set out the principles of how control and ownership will pass in a large diversified family business to give certainty to the next generation. Winner of STEP President’s prize for best thesis on international issues 2010. Regular lecturer at a number of national conferences.
Career
Trained Burges Salmon; qualified 2004; partner 2012. Three years living in Japan and working for local government; three years setting up and managing own businesses in the UK.
Languages
German, Japanese, French.
Member
Committee member National Law Society Capital Taxes Sub-Committee; former council member Bristol Law Society.
Education
Attended Nottingham High School, Nottingham; Bristol University (1995 Euro LLB); University of the West of England, Bristol (2003 LPC Distinction).
Leisure
Kite surfing, skiing/snowboarding.
London: Private client
Agriculture and estates
Within: Agriculture and estates
Burges Salmon LLPÂ continues to act for many of the largest and most important institutional landowners, estates and agri-businesses nationally on substantial and complex matters. The group advises on the full array of matters from estate management, subsidies and tenancies, through to the sale and purchase of agricultural property and substantial estates, as well as on rural development. Other areas of expertise include assisting farmers and agri-business clients on regulatory issues affecting the food supply chain. Tom Hewitt heads the team and Jim Aveline acts for a sizeable client base of diversified farms and landed estates in relation to their tax, estate and succession issues.
Personal tax, trusts and probate
Within: Next Generation Partners
Jim Aveline - Burges Salmon LLP