Mills & Reeve LLP fields a large team with significant experience advising ultra-high-net-worth clients, entrepreneurs with links to family businesses and landed estate clients. The group covers all aspects of succession planning, in particular advising on the establishment of family investment companies, cross-border probate issues, tax planning and estate planning. The team is jointly headed up by Deborah Clark, who is an expert in family investment companies, and Christopher Noel, whose broad practice encompasses advice on tax planning, wealth protection and estate planning. Zahra Siddiqui advises a range of HNW individuals and sports people on their wills, trust structures and tax planning measures and Charlotte Shaughnessy covers inheritance tax planning, business relief options and further general estate planning and business succession mandates.
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Work Department
Private tax.
Position

Zahra has been instrumental in growing the wills and estate planning team significantly and it is now a major player in the Manchester market place. Zahra’s particular area of expertise is advising on complex and innovative tax planning, including sophisticated wills and trusts. She acts as a trustee for many family trusts and has a particular niche in advising doctors and retired doctors on their estate planning affairs.

Career

Trained Dootson Eckersley Hope; qualified 1997; Dootson Eckersley Hope 1995-2000; Gorna & Co 2000-01; George Davies Solicitors LLP 2001-13; Mills & Reeves LLP 2013 to date.

Memberships
Law Society.
Education

Smithills Sixth Form College, Bolton; University of Wolverhampton (1995 BA (Hons) 2(1) Economics); CPE (Pass with commendation); LPC (Distinction).

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