Stephen Pallister > Wiggin Osborne Fullerlove > Cheltenham, England > Lawyer Profile

Stephen Pallister

+44 (0)1242 710200 stephen.pallister@woflaw.com

Work Department

Private client/charities.

Position

Stephen specialises in tax and trust work for high-net-worth individuals and their families, especially entrepreneurs and clients with substantial business interests. Acts for both UK and internationally based clients. Works on all kinds of UK and offshore trust matters. Stephen is also a well-known charities lawyer and acts for many charities and not-for-profit bodies on a wide range of legal issues.

Career

Trained Macfarlanes; qualified 1989. Solicitor Macfarlanes 1989-93; associate Osborne Clarke 1993-98; partner Pinsent Masons 1998-2003; partner Charles Russell 2003-10; partner Wiggin Osborne Fullerlove 2010 to date. Non-executive chairman, Imara Beresford International Limited. Director: IKON Gallery Ltd; Gloucestershire Gateway Trust; Gloucester Gateway Limited. Publications include: author of chapter in ‘International Taxation of Low-Tax Transactions’ (BNA International); regular contributor on tax, trust and charity law issues in newspapers, periodicals and specialist publications. Conference lecturer.

Memberships

Law Society’s Wills and Equity Committee 1998-2009; Law Society’s Tax Law Committee (and Capital Taxes Sub-Committee) 2009 to date; Hon Fellow, Centre for International Legal Studies; Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners; Charity Law Association; International Tax Planning Association; Fellow, Royal Society of Arts.

Education

Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Penrith; Downing College, Cambridge (1986 BA; MA).

Leisure

Chess, various charities.