Helena Luckhurst > Fladgate LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Helena Luckhurst

020 3036 7369 hluckhurst@fladgate.com

Work Department

Private client, Private wealth 

Position

I specialise in tax and legal issues affecting family wealth holding vehicles, inheritances and estate planning.

I have over 20 years’ experience advising on family wealth holding vehicles (wills, trusts and corporate entities) and related issues. I also help plan family wealth transfers and inheritances. My clients are individuals, trustees, personal representatives of estates and attorneys/families with incapacitated family members; UK based and abroad; sometimes relocating in or out of the UK. My work often has an international angle.

Inheritance Tax mitigation is a particular interest; an issue affecting many of my clients. It’s so rewarding helping my clients find answers to tricky questions affecting their own, unique circumstances. Law and tax in this area can be extremely complex and bemusing. I help my clients evaluate their options in order to reach the right conclusions. It’s a personal process, sometimes conducted in difficult circumstances. I aim to provide timely, sensitive but cheerful assistance, delivered with a commercial eye.

Career

Trained Russell Cooke, qualified 2000; made partner at Speechly Bircham 2010; joined Fladgate as a partner 2012.

Memberships

Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners; Solicitors for the Elderly

Education

Maidstone Girls’ Grammar School; Jesus College (MA Oxon 1996).