Alex Drake > Taylor Walton LLP > St Albans, England > Lawyer Profile
Taylor Walton LLP Offices
THORNYCROFT HOUSE, 107 HOLYWELL HILL
ST ALBANS, HERTFORDSHIRE
AL1 1HQ
England
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Alex Drake
Work Department
Private client.
Position
Partner and Head of Private Client team, specialising in wills, trusts and inheritance tax planning, preparation and administering of lasting powers of attorney, administration of estates (both testate and intestate), and advising and assisting elderly clients generally.
Career
Trained Bird & Bird, London; qualified 1989; partner, Taylor Walton LLP 2009 to date. Articled clerk, Bird & Bird 1987-89; assistant solicitor, Bird & Bird 1989-98; assistant solicitor, Sherrards (St Albans) 1998-2004; partner, Sherrards 2004-09; consultant solicitor, Miller Rosenfalck ( London) 2006 to 2010.
Memberships
Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners.
Education
St Albans High School for Girls, Haileybury College; Durham University (1982-85 BA Hons law); Guildford Law School.
Leisure
Swimming, gardening, eating out, wine, school governor at Aldwickbury School, Harpenden.
Lawyer Rankings
South East > Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx
The ‘fantastic‘ team of ‘highly skilled‘ practitioners at Taylor Walton LLP acts for a diverse client base of farmers and landowners, entrepreneurs and charities. Alex Drake heads up the practice from St Albans, while Steven Hamilton and Alison Voyce lead the team from Harpenden. Drake has long-standing expertise in assisting high-net-worth individuals, providing ‘invaluable‘ advice on inheritance tax and estate planning matters, in addition to grants of probate applications and estate administration. The ‘very skilful‘ Hamilton has broad expertise spanning lifetime tax planning, trust administration, and lasting powers of attorney; while Voyce utilises her ‘excellent knowledge of the law‘ to represent a number of public figures and farmers on succession planning and probate issues.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx
- Private client > Family: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx
- Real estate > Commercial property: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx
- Employment > Employment: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx