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22 Baker Street
LONDON
W1U 3BW
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Patricia Boon

Work Department
Private Client
Position
Partner
Career
Patricia is a Partner in the Private Client department, working with high net worth individuals and families within and outside the UK, as well as with trust companies, family offices, and private banks.
She regularly assists non-UK domiciled individuals with pre-immigration UK tax advice and works with a range of UK and non-UK based clients, advising on personal tax, trust, succession, and estate planning matters and avoidance of family disputes.
The scope of her work includes advising in relation to inter-generational transmission of wealth, cross-border estate planning, remittance issues, the UK tax treatment of UK resident and foreign trusts (for trustees, settlors, and beneficiaries), as well as on the structuring of, and UK tax implications of acquiring and holding, UK property.
Patricia regularly travels to Asia, where she advises clients on family business succession planning and family governance issues.
She is recognised as a ‘Next Generation Partner’ in The Legal 500 2023.
Patricia joined Forsters with the rest of the Gowling WLG London Private Client team in May 2017. She trained at Gowling WLG’s predecessor firm Lawrence Graham LLP, qualifying there in 2013.
Memberships
The Law Society
STEP
Lawyer Rankings
London > Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
(Next Generation Partners)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.
Lawyer Rankings
- Next Generation Partners London > Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Personal tax, trusts and probate London > Private client
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Employment > Immigration
- Employment > Immigration: personal
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Real estate > Residential property
Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Private client > Family
- Private client > Art and cultural property
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- Corporate and commercial > Partnership
- Real estate > Planning
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Industry focus > Hospitality and leisure
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Smaller Deals, £10m-£100m
- Employment > Senior executives
- Real estate > Social housing: local authorities and registered providers
- Real estate > Property finance
- Employment > Employers