Jeremy Robertson > Forsters LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Forsters LLP
22 Baker Street
LONDON
W1U 3BW
England

Work Department

Private Client

Position

Partner

Career

Jeremy has extensive experience of advising both UK domestic and international clients on all aspects of personal taxation, corporate and trust structuring, and family governance.

He works closely with UK entrepreneurs, business owners, executives and their families on capital taxation and succession planning.

Jeremy has particular expertise in advising individuals on the different structuring options available when purchasing UK residential and commercial property and their tax implications.

His areas of expertise also include UK and offshore tax planning (including advising on issues of domicile and the application of the UK statutory residence rules), creating and advising on the tax treatment of excluded property trusts and trust administration.

Jeremy’s practice includes family office work (both in terms of supporting existing family offices and working with clients to develop and build family offices). He also specialises in providing family governance advice to both UK and international clients, which includes putting in place private trust company structures and working with families to prepare family charters and other governance documents.

Jeremy advises on the development and implementation of estate plans for both UK and non-UK resident individuals.

His approach is to provide clients with clear and concise advice and to ensure that their objectives are achieved in a tax efficient manner.

Jeremy is a recommended lawyer in the 2023 edition of The Legal 500.

He trained at Forsters and qualified in September 2013 and became a Partner in April 2021. Prior to joining Forsters, Jeremy spent a number of years working for a charity based in Scotland.

Memberships

The Law Society

STEP

Lawyer Rankings

London > Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate

(Next Generation Partners)

Jeremy Robertson – Forsters LLP

Forsters LLP has a ‘large talented pool of people’ who provide ‘great personal service with great experience across all areas of wealth structuring’. The team is renowned for its expertise in supporting families and individuals with an international footprint. This is often done by co-ordinating a team of advisors from multiple jurisdictions. The group is highly regarded for its experience in handling onshore and offshore family governance matters. It frequently acts for multi-billion dollar families. Practice head Xavier Nicholas is recommended. Nicholas Jacob is skilled at providing sophisticated private wealth planning advice. Guy Abrahams excels at organising the transfer of family assets between generations in a way to mitigate capital taxes. Patricia Boon regularly assists non-UK domiciled individuals who require advice prior to becoming UK tax residents. Jeremy Robertson has extensive experience in advising both UK domestic and international clients on a wide variety of matters. Charlotte Evans-Tipping was promoted to the partnership in March 2023, and Alfred Liu was made partner in April 2024. Alex Tamosius is also recommended.