Matthew Barnett > Edwin Coe LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
Edwin Coe LLP Offices
2 STONE BUILDINGS
LINCOLN'S INN
LONDON
WC2A 3TH
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Matthew Barnett
Work Department
Private Client
Position
Matthew joined the Private Client team as a Partner in 2019 from Harbottle & Lewis.
Matthew acts for high-net-worth individuals on a wide range of estate and succession planning issues. He has extensive experience in advising high-net-worth clients on lifetime gifting and on the use of wills and trusts for the protection of wealth for future generations. He regularly advises trustees on their duties, responsibilities and specific aspects of tax and trust planning. Matthew also advises business owners and entrepreneurs on business succession planning.
Matthew has vast experience in probate and estate administration and has dealt with many high value, complex and multi-jurisdictional estates throughout his career. He often advises beneficiaries of estates on succession planning involving post-death variations.
Matthew also has particular experience in advising clients on mental capacity issues such as Lasting Powers of Attorney and Deputyship applications to the Court of Protection.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
(Leading individuals)Edwin Coe LLP
is praised for being ‘a very discreet, Rolls-Royce practice, where the client is far more important than the solicitor, and service is everything’. It has some strong relationships with a number of the leading wealth management organisations in the UK and internationally. Alison Broadberry – who has ‘bundles of fizzing legal energy’ – and David Goepel – a ‘deep thinker and clear communicator’– co-head the department. The team is increasingly advising on high-value, complex, cross-jurisdictional estates both during a person’s lifetime and after death. Matthew Barnett is another leading member of the department who acts for high- and ultra-high-net-worth individuals on a wide range of tax, trust, estate and succession planning matters. Ben Harle left the firm in November 2022.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading individuals London > Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Personal tax, trusts and probate London > Private client
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- Dispute resolution > Group litigation: Claimant
- Insurance > Insurance litigation: for policyholders
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Smaller Deals, £10m-£100m
- Real estate > Residential property
- Employment > Senior executives
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- Real estate > Property finance
- Employment > Employers
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate