Clare Maurice > Maurice Turnor Gardner LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
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Clare Maurice
Work Department
Private Client, Charity and Philanthropy
Position
Clare is Senior Partner of Maurice Turnor Gardner. Her main specialism is international tax and estate planning for UK and non-UK domiciled individuals and families with complex assets located in many jurisdictions looking for solutions to the tax and structural challenges of global wealth. She also advises both resident and non-UK resident trustees on legal and practical issues which are relevant to them and their beneficiaries.
Clare has a wealth of experience advising on philanthropy matters and, in particular, how to establish and operate charities. She has very valuable insight into the issues facing such enterprises as she has personally acted as trustee of a number of charities, both grant making and operating, chairing two such enterprises,
Clare is a top-ranked Band 1 lawyer in the Chambers High Net Worth guide and is also ranked as a Band 1 individual by the Chambers Global guide, where she features in the International Private Client – Global-wide category. Clare is named as a Leading Individual in the Legal 500 Directory and a Notable Practitioner in Chambers & Partners (UK). She was ranked by Best Lawyers 2021 as a leading specialist in the area of Trusts and Personal Tax, and has been named as a member of the Private Client Global Elite by Legal Week for a number of years. She is also identified as one of Spear’s Top Recommended Tax & Trust Advisers 2020.
Career
Clare qualified at Allen & Overy in October 1978 where she became the first woman partner in 1985. From 2000 until 2009 she ran the Private Client team in Allen & Overy. Clare is a founder member of Maurice Turnor Gardner LLP which she established with five other partners in May 2009.
During her career Clare has acted as a trustee of a variety of philanthropic enterprises including Barts Charity and Safe Lives both of which she chaired. She was also a non-executive director of a family owned construction company.
Memberships
Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners
International Academy of Estate and Trust Law. (President from 2016-2018)
International Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel
Education
Clare read law at the University of Birmingham.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
(Hall of Fame)The ‘highly rated’ Fiona Poole has been promoted to the head of department at Maurice Turnor Gardner LLP – she leads a practice which ’provides magic circle advice in a friendly and boutique style way. They are the perfect combination of being intellectual and a pleasure to work with’. The agile team maintains its specialist focus on complex international and cross-border estate planning and succession structuring for UHNW clients. Clients include foreign royalty, English aristocracy, entrepreneurs, businessmen, traditionally wealthy families, trustees and private banks. Ceris Gardner
has particular expertise in complex and high-value probates with an international dimension. Clare Maurice receives a steady stream of instructions from trustees, family offices and beneficiaries on a whole host of complex trust, estate planning and personal tax matters. Jennifer Chambers has considerable experience of establishing tax efficient structures for the preservation of assets and succession planning. The ‘extremely clever’ Eesha Arora has an international client base. Paul Whitehead also plays a pivotal role in the department.
Lawyer Rankings
- Hall of Fame London > Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Personal tax, trusts and probate London > Private client
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Real estate > Residential property
- Corporate and commercial > Partnership