Ian Johnston > Tees Law > Chelmsford, England > Lawyer Profile
Tees Law Offices
Parkview House
Victoria Road South
CHELMSFORD
CM1 1NG
England
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Ian Johnston
Work Department
Private Client
Position
Partner
Specialising in Private Client law, Ian’s workload includes advising on Inheritance tax succession planning, along with Wills and Lasting Powers of Attorneys. He is approached regularly in assisting business owners and farming clients in planning for the future and ensuring the passing of assets between generations. He regularly advises farming families on how to structure their business interests to ensure that their farming assets pass through the family as they would want. He specialises in dealing with complex Probate matters, and has been recognised as leading on several new complex farming probates.
Career
Trainee, Holmes and Hills, 2005-2007; Solicitor, Hill and Abbott, 2007-2010; Solicitor, Tees Law, 2010; Senior Associate , Tees Law, September 2022; Partner, Tees Law, 2023 – present
Memberships
Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners
Education
Law and International History, Keel University, 2001-2004; LPC, College of Law, London, 2004-2005
Lawyer Rankings
South East > Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Essex
(Next Generation Partners)With offices in Chelmsford, Brentwood and Saffron Walden, Tees Law‘s private client practice ‘has an outstanding reputation for quality’, and is equipped to handle an array of private client matters, including succession and tax planning, estate administration, and will preparation. The team is led by Ian Johnston, who is a key contact for wealthy individuals seeking advice on their business succession; Johnston also has strong connections to the farming community. Luck Luck Ooi and the ‘extremely knowledgeable’ Sarah White, who joined from Thompson Smith and Puxon in April 2022, are also recommended.
South East > Private client > Agriculture and estates
The ‘highly knowledgable‘ practice at Tees Law is led by Letty Glaister in Royston who is renowned for her expertise in rural succession planning. David Miller splits his time between the firm’s offices and is experienced in energy projects, while Ian Johnston in Chelmsford works in conjunction with the firm’s property team on land and farm sales.
Lawyer Rankings
- Agriculture and estates South East > Private client
- Next Generation Partners South East > Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Essex
- Personal tax, trusts and probate: Essex South East > Private client
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Real estate > Commercial property: Essex
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Essex
Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Essex
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Essex
- Employment > Employment: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx
- Employment > Employment: Essex
- Private client > Family: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx
- Private client > Family: Essex
- Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
- Real estate > Commercial property: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Public sector > Public sector