Chris Belcher > Mills & Reeve LLP > Cambridge, England > Lawyer Profile
Mills & Reeve LLP Offices
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100 HILLS ROAD
CAMBRIDGE
CB2 1PH
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Chris Belcher
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)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.
Lawyer Rankings
- Hall of Fame East Anglia > Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Cambridge
- Personal tax, trusts and probate: Cambridge East Anglia > Private client
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Cambridge
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Norwich
- Real estate > Commercial property: Cambridge
- Real estate > Commercial property: Norwich
- Real estate > Construction
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Cambridge
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Norwich
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Employment > Employment
- Private client > Family
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Employment > Immigration
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Licensing
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Employment > Pensions
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Cambridge
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Norwich
- Real estate > Planning and environment
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Public sector > Public sector