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Sinclair Gibson LLP Offices
3 LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS
LONDON
WC2A 3AA
England
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Lucy Gibson
Work Department
Trusts and tax.
Position
Lucy Gibson is a private client trust and tax lawyer. She primarily advises wealthy private clients and trustees on the establishment and restructuring of family and charitable trusts for devolution purposes and tax mitigation.
Lucy’s practice is a broad one, advising private clients and trustees, often internationally-based, on a variety of litigious and non-contentious matters including trust variations and compromise proceedings (both contested and consensual), trustee removal proceedings and contested wills.
Lucy has been consistently recognised as a leading individual in her field in Chambers & Partners which described her as “widely acclaimed for international trust and estate law expertise,” and “extremely able, highly intelligent”.
Lucy is also often asked to advise trustees in the context of claims against them or when trustees become involved, possibly unwillingly, in proceedings ancillary to divorce in London. She is frequently instructed by other solicitors and accountancy firms to give independent advice to particular family members or a specific beneficial class in complex trust and probate cases. She also provides bespoke trust drafting services to a number of trust companies, often international, and financial institutions.
Career
Lucy qualified at a mid-sized commercial London firm in 1997 and is a founding partner of Sinclair Gibson.
Memberships
The International Academy of Estate and Trust Law
Association of Contentious Trusts and Probate Specialists
Education
1991-1994 St Hilda’s College, Oxford – BA (Hons) Jurisprudence
Lawyer Rankings
London > Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
Under the leadership of Henry Hickman, Sinclair Gibson LLP acts for many clients ranging from successful professionals to landed families, entrepreneurs and ultra-high-net-worth individuals. It is recommended for its work on onshore and offshore trust and probate disputes. The group has been busy in other areas such as acting in professional negligence claims for private clients, as well as acting in court of protection proceedings on behalf of the incapacitated. Lucy Gibson 
is another key member of the department.
London > Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
(Hall of Fame)Sinclair Gibson LLP has been praised as ‘typifying the best of the private client boutique approach’. It is skilfully co-led by Keith Bruce-Smith and Lucy Gibson and covers a broad range of private client matters. Core areas of expertise include advising on lifetime wealth and tax planning as well as post-death tax planning and estate administration. It also excels in advising on the establishment and ongoing management and administration of trusts and on the provision of family office services. It deftly combines expertise in advising wealthy UK-based families and landed estates with its work in advising international clients on multi-jurisdictional issues.
Lawyer Rankings
- Hall of Fame London > Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Personal tax, trusts and probate London > Private client
- Contentious trusts and probate London > Private client