Erica Thomson > Geldards LLP > Nottingham, England > Lawyer Profile

Geldards LLP
Cubo Standard Court
Park Row
NOTTINGHAM
NG1 6GN
England
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Work Department

Private Client

Position

Erica is a Partner and Head of the Private Client team in the East Midlands. She has over 20 years’ of legal and tax experience and regularly receives recommendations from clients and other professionals, including accountants and financial advisers. Erica has extensive expertise in advising high net worth clients in wealth preservation and tax planning. She has an expanding client base of business owners who require advice on Inheritance Tax and succession planning. Erica also advises clients on the administration of complex estates (including BPR and APR claims), the creation of trusts and all aspects of private client work.

Erica is known for her pragmatic and empathetic expert legal advice and has a loyal client base, often acting for different generations of the same family. She advises on sophisticated will and lifetime trust planning, high value and complex trust and estate administration work for farm and business owners, wealthy families and vulnerable beneficiaries.

Lawyer Rankings

East Midlands > Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate

Geldards LLP is particularly noted in the market for the team’s work advising entrepreneurs and wealthy families on wealth management issues, working closely with the firm’s corporate, commercial, property, family and agriculture teams. Erica Thomson and Jaclyn Barnes jointly head up the practice; the pair act for a roster of high-net-worth individuals on wealth preservation and tax planning mandates as well as trust creation and probate matters.