Nigel Roots > Freeths LLP > Oxford, England > Lawyer Profile
Freeths LLP Offices
Spires House
5700 Oxford Business Park South
OXFORD
OX4 2RW
England
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Nigel Roots
Work Department
Family Wealth
Position
Nigel has been a specialist trust and estate practitioner for over 30 years. He has experience of estate administrations of all sizes and complexities, both domestic and international. This covers tax and trust planning, trust management and modification both onshore and offshore, complex estate administrations, literary estates, heritage property, charity issues and court of protection issues. These include disputed, high value and multi asset estates.
He acts as a Court appointed independent administrator and Judicial Trustee in disputed trust and probate matters. He also lectures widely on tax and trust matters
Nigel is listed as a Recommended Lawyer and recognised as a Leading Individual in Charities & Not-for-profit as well as for personal tax, trusts and probate by the Legal 500 (2023 edition).
The Chambers & Partners (2023 edition) listed Nigel as a Leading Individual and he’s recognised in the Chambers High Net Worth Ranking (2023 edition).
Career
Qualified 1989. Partner with Morrell Peel and Gamlen, then Boodle Hatfield. Partner in Henmans (now Freeths) since 2003.
Memberships
Charity Law Association; Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners; Law Society Private Client Section.
Education
University of Wales (LLB Hons).
Lawyer Rankings
South East > Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
(Leading individuals)Freeths LLP‘s private client service division specialises across all aspects of trusts, estates and tax, Court of Protection, private litigation and residential conveyancing. Oxford-based Sarah Foster heads up the team. Nigel Roots is well known for managing complex inter-generational wealth structures and trust reorganisations, while Louise Lewis undertakes estate planning for high-net-worth individuals as well as on administration post-death. Lisa Mark-Bell is another important port of call, receiving client praise for being ‘practical, pragmatic and dedicated to finding solutions for her clients’, and specialising in providing bespoke trust advice to HNW trusts, including landed estates.
South East > Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
(Leading individuals)Lawyer Rankings
- Leading individuals South East > Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Leading individuals South East > Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Personal tax, trusts and probate: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40 South East > Private client
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Real estate > Commercial property: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Employment > Employment: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Real estate > Property litigation
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Real estate > Commercial property: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Employment > Employment: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx
- Private client > Family: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery