Clare Stirzaker > Boodle Hatfield LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Boodle Hatfield LLP
240 BLACKFRIARS ROAD
LONDON
SE1 8NW
England

Work Department

Private client and tax

Position

Clare is a Partner in a Private Client & Tax department. She specialises in succession planning and related legal and tax matters for multi-generational families and their family offices. She works alongside some of the world’s leading private businesses and focuses on helping individuals develop their succession planning strategy and designing bespoke asset holding and wealth management structures including PTCs, limited partnership structures and foundations. Clare has particular experience advising families on implementing family and corporate governance frameworks to support successful wealth transition. She also supports clients in developing their philanthropic strategy to enable greater and more effective wealth distribution.

Lawyer Rankings

London > Private client > Charities and not-for-profit

The versatile team at Boodle Hatfield LLP combines its private capital expertise with its specialist charity and philanthropic experience. Eleanor Sepanski leads the practice, which advises many high-net-worth individuals on their philanthropic pursuits. The group also frequently works on corporate charitable matters, and is skilled at advising on alternative not-for-profit structures. Clare Stirzaker regularly advises clients on philanthropic governance as part of their family and family business governance work.

London > Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate

At Boodle Hatfield LLP, Hayden Bailey leads a team of ‘extremely high quality, detail-oriented advisors on complex private client matters’. It is particularly skilled at advising on ‘trust structures holding landed estates or large operating businesses’. The ‘very solution orientated’ team specialises in complex international wealth structuring mandates for business and private assets. In addition, it is renowned for advising some of the largest family-owned businesses and family offices in the UK and internationally on governance, risk management and wealth preservation. Simon Rylatt  has an impressive roster of high-net-worth (HNW) clients. Kyra Motley is well known for advising clients in the Middle East and acts for ten different Royal families and 28 billionaires. Salpy Kouyoumjian  is another key figure who specialises in succession, tax, wealth preservation and estate planning advice. Laurence Morgan advises international HNW individuals on their tax, estate and succession planning. Other names to note include Sue Laing; Andrea Zavos  and Sara Maccallum. Clare Stirzaker regularly advises on succession planning and related legal and tax matters for multi-generational families and their family offices.