Richard Honey > Charles Russell Speechlys LLP > Guildford, England > Lawyer Profile
Charles Russell Speechlys LLP Offices
ONE LONDON SQUARE, CROSS LANES
GUILDFORD
SURREY
GU1 1UN
England
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Richard Honey
Work Department
Private Client
Position
Senior Associate
Career
Richard advises on a full range of private client matters, including will drafting and lifetime and post-death tax planning, to include succession planning for those individuals with family business interests. Richard also advises on trust creation and administration as well as capacity issues, including advising attorneys on their duties and responsibilities and any necessary applications to the Court of Protection.
More recently, Richard has begun developing a niche for complex estate administration matters on behalf of executors and beneficiaries, especially those with a contentious element. Richard is a key member of the firm’s Legacy Administration team and his experience in advising charities covers a wide variety of issues, as well as teaching the inheritance tax module on the Institute of Legacy Management’s Essentials Course for charity legacy officers.
Richard was noted as a key lawyer in the 2021 and 2022 Legal 500 for his ‘invaluable’ experience in handling complex estate administration matters, and he is a Full member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP), the world’s leading organisation for private wealth professionals. Richard was also named as one of the 2021 eprivateclient Top 35 Under 35, the definitive annual list of leading young private client practitioners in the UK and UK Crown Dependencies.
Richard is admitted to practise in England and Wales.
Lawyer Rankings
South East > Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
(Rising stars)The ‘unerringly professional’ tax, trusts and probate team is at the core of Charles Russell Speechlys LLP
’ offering in Guildford with recent work involving family business clients and cross-border estates. Practice head Sally Ashford
has been described as ‘highly intuitive, generous, friendly and incredibly dynamic’ and specialises in estates and family succession planning including inheritance tax mitigation and trusts and Court of Protection matters. Richard Honey ‘provides responsive and practical support’ and goes ‘above and beyond’ to assist high-net-worth individuals with succession planning and trust structuring work and, more recently, issues involving cryptocurrencies and digitally held assets. New arrival Harriet Betteridge offers substantial experience across a range of matters including estate administration and specialist tax advisory work covering IHT areas and CGT matters. Kathryn Robinson works with large national charity clients and private clients on wills, lasting powers of attorney and lifetime inheritance tax planning. Natalie Butler is also noted by clients.
Lawyer Rankings
- Personal tax, trusts and probate: Kent, Surrey, Sussex South East > Private client
- Rising stars South East > Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Kent, Surrey and Sussex
- Real estate > Commercial property: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Real estate > Construction
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Employment > Employment: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Private client > Family: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Real estate > Property litigation