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Jennifer Chambers

Jennifer Chambers

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Maurice Turnor Gardner LLP

Maurice Turnor Gardner LLP

England - London • Private client

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Personal tax, trusts and probate

Clients of Maurice Turnor Gardner LLP include foreign royalty, English aristocracy, entrepreneurs, business owners and traditionally wealthy families. Other key clients are trustees and private banks, together with corporate trustee clients. These clients often require advice on commercial trusts and on major finance structures. Typically these clients have varied assets, which include listed and privately-owned companies, e-companies, cryptocurrency, robotics, real estate, and race horses. Led by Fiona Poole, the team is praised for its ‘unrivalled knowledge and expertise.’ It maintains its specialist focus on complex international and cross-border estate planning and succession structuring for UHNW clients. The group is further well-placed to help its clients protect and preserve their wealth for future generations, by using family charters and constitutions, trusts and other international asset holding structures. Ceris Gardner receives many plaudits. Clare Maurice and Jennifer Chambers are both highly recommended, while Eesha Arora and Claire Weeks are seasoned practitioners. Rebecca Fisher joined the practice from Russell-Cooke LLP in December 2024.
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Phone
+44 (0)20 7786 8715
Email
[email protected]
Profile
mauriceturnorgardner.com

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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)

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Testimonials

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  • ‘Eesha Arora is an unflappable pair of hands who makes clients immediately feel at home.'

  • 'Claire Weeks knows the law inside out.’