Chris Belcher > Mills & Reeve LLP > Cambridge, England > Lawyer Profile

Mills & Reeve LLP
BOTANIC HOUSE
100 HILLS ROAD
CAMBRIDGE
CB2 1PH
England

Work Department

Private client.

Position

Partner, National Head of Private Client

Career

Trained at Sharpe Pritchard and qualified in 1999. Subsequently solicitor then partner (from 2005) at Farrer & Co. Joined Mills & Reeve as a partner in 2009.  Member and former chair of Solicitors for the Elderly. Member of STEP.  Former trustee and vice chair of national charity Silver Line and former trustee and chair of local charity Cambridgeshire Community Foundation.

Languages

Conversational French

Memberships

Solicitors for the Elderly; Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners

Education

University of Cambridge (1993-1996), MA Law

Leisure

Triathlon, duathlon, cycling, rugby

Lawyer Rankings

East Anglia > Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Cambridge

(Hall of Fame)

Chris BelcherMills & Reeve LLP

The team based at the Cambridge office of Mills & Reeve LLP has ‘a very broad range of expertise, such that all of their clients’ legal needs can be met in-house’. It is noted that the practitioners in the practice, which is led by partner Chris Belcher, are ‘very approachable and advise using plain English, making complex matters accessible to all’. The firm advises high-net-worth estates, including some with assets exceeding £100m, on the full-range of tax and trusts matters. Senior associates Emma Geale and Katrina Hopkins have broad practices that encompass succession planning, tax, trusts, the restructuring of property ownership and the creation of corporate structures to hold investments. Alex Hunt moved to Birketts LLP in January 2023.