Lucy Worwood > Browne Jacobson LLP > Nottingham, England > Lawyer Profile

Browne Jacobson LLP
MOWBRAY HOUSE
CASTLE MEADOW ROAD
NOTTINGHAM
NG2 1BJ
England

Work Department

Business services: private client and charities

Career

Lucy is head of our private client team. She is passionate about our clients, our team and the quality of the work and support that we provide for clients. She receives excellent feedback from our clients and referrers and also features as a notable practitioner and leading expert in Chambers and Partners High Net Worth and Legal 500.

She is a member of STEP with over 25 years’ experience advising on all aspects of personal tax, trust and will drafting and estate and succession planning to preserve family assets and businesses through the generations. Lucy has particular experience in restructuring and advising about trusts, advising offshore trustees and providing personal tax planning advice for UK and non-UK individuals. Her clients comprise family businesses, professional trustees, landowners and those concerned with the preservation of family wealth. Her clients include some of the country’s wealthiest families (many of whom own leading family businesses) who she aims to support with flexible and effective estate and succession planning to help ensure that their family wealth and businesses continue to thrive.

Lucy has advised many of her clients for years but is also referred work by many accountants and other professionals. She has also been involved in tenders for the legal work for landed estates which the firm has won and regularly speaks at client events jointly hosted with contacts and referrers.

Memberships

Member of STEP and Charity Law Association

Education

  • Solicitor – admitted September 1997
  • Law degree – MA Cantab

Lawyer Rankings

East Midlands > Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate

(Leading partners)

Lucy WorwoodBrowne Jacobson LLP

Led by the ‘professional and collaborativeLucy Worwood, who has ‘great emotional awareness and empathy‘, the practice at Browne Jacobson LLP provides clients with extensive succession and estate planning advice spanning wealth and trust structuring issues, landed estates work and offshore trust-related mandates. Worwood is particularly noted for her knowledge of trust restructurings and handles personal tax work for non-UK domiciled individuals.

East Midlands > Private client > Agriculture and estates

With a dedicated environmental practice, Browne Jacobson LLP is reputed for its rural land sale and purchase transactions capabilities. Robert Wofinden co-leads the practice and is skilled at property development and strategic land transactions. Also co-lead of the practice, Lucy Worwood has over two decades of experience in the sector and is noted for her strength in personal tax as well as trust and will drafting. Imogen Holmes is a key port of call for family-owned estates and businesses on estate planning, while Sophie Meehan-Green is adept at drafting option, overage deeds, promotion, and collaboration agreements.