Jennifer Chambers > Maurice Turnor Gardner LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
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Jennifer Chambers
Work Department
Private Client, Charity and Philanthropy
Position
Jennifer is a partner and Head of the Private Wealth Team. She advises international and UK based private clients, family offices and trustees on succession and estate planning, UK personal and trust taxation and trust law matters as well as on philanthropy and charity issues.
She has considerable experience of establishing tax efficient structures (including trusts, foundations and companies) for the preservation of assets and for succession planning purposes and has a strong heritage property practice advising individuals, trustees and charities on acquisitions, sales and loans of significant works of art and on related tax matters. She advises on Wills and has particular expertise of cross-border estate planning.
Jennifer also advises philanthropists, charity trustees and those who transact with charities on charity law issues, philanthropy matters and tax efficient giving.
Jennifer is ranked as a leading lawyer in the 2020 Chambers & Partners HNW guide and is also recognised in the most recent Legal 500 as a charity transaction specialist.
Career
Jennifer qualified at Allen & Overy in August 1994 where she became a partner in 2005. She was a founder member of Maurice Turnor Gardner LLP.
Memberships
Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners
Charity Law Association
Philanthropy Impact
Education
St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge – BA (1990), MA (1993)
Lawyer Rankings
London > Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
(Leading individuals)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.
London > Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
Jennifer Emms heads up the department at Maurice Turnor Gardner LLP, which is praised for connecting philanthropy with charity and private wealth. Ceris Gardner is a recognised name for her work on charity law and tax matters, and more recently has had a particular emphasis on governance and risk issues. Emma-Jane Weider acts for many operating and grant-making charities in the arts and educational sectors, as well as for a variety of religious and international charities on a whole host of legal and governance issues. Jennifer Chambers is a known name for her work on a range of taxation and trust matters, and is adept at advising on philanthropy and charity law.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading individuals London > Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Personal tax, trusts and probate London > Private client
- Charities and not-for-profit 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