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Charles Russell Speechlys LLP
5 FLEET PLACE
LONDON
EC4M 7RD
England
5 FLEET PLACE
LONDON
EC4M 7RD
England
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James Bradford
020 7427 1042 james.bradford@crsblaw.com
Work Department
Private Wealth, Charities & Not-for-Profit
Position
James provides advice to UK domiciled and non-UK domiciled individuals on UK taxation, trust, personal estate and succession planning matters. James takes a particular interest helping individuals and families with passing valuable assets and interests to younger generations. This includes advising upon and implementing lifetime and post-death tax planning, will and trust drafting and advising on and preparing Lasting Powers of Attorney.
As a former corporate lawyer, James takes a special interest in assisting entrepreneurs, business owners and the owners of rural estates and helping clients to fulfil their philanthropic ambitions.
James is admitted to practise in England and Wales.
- Assisting a UHNW individual with the establishment of a “family investment company” to hold and control over £100m of family wealth
- Helping the sole owner of an international business (in conjunction with the firm’s corporate department) to effect a tax efficient sale of the business
- Advising the trustees (and the high profile principal beneficiary) of a UK-resident trust as to their duties in relation to certain paintings qualifying for the conditional exemption from inheritance tax
- Helping the trustees of a charity trust to negotiate successfully the terms of a release which concluded a ten-year dispute with another charity and the Charity Commission
- Advising an UHNW family and their family office in relation to their estate planning (taking account of, among other things, tax exempt assets (e.g. business interests, rural estates, heritage assets), non UK assets, trust interests and family succession issues
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Private client > Family
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Smaller Deals, £10m-£100m
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Dispute resolution > Professional discipline
Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Private client > Art and cultural property
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- Private client > Court of protection
- Private client > Family: mediation
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Employment > Immigration
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Advertising & marketing
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Real estate > Residential property
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- Investment fund formation and management > Listed funds
- Real estate > Planning
- Dispute resolution > Professional discipline
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Reputation management
- Industry focus > Retail and consumer
- Employment > Senior executives
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech
- Industry focus > Hospitality and leisure
- Corporate and commercial > Partnership
- Dispute resolution > Tax litigation and investigations
- Employment > Employers
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £250m)
- Real estate > Property finance
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: patents (contentious and non-contentious)
- Corporate and commercial > Venture capital
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Public sector > Administrative and public law
- Employment > Employee share schemes