Claire Booth

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Legal Counsel

0161 5295996

Expertise

Claire is a Private Client Solicitor with over 22 years’ experience in private client services, such as Wills and Estate Planning, Lasting Powers of Attorney, Trusts, and Probate, including cross border Estates. Claire specialises in advising business owners and high net worth individuals and their families on asset protection, succession planning and taxation.

Claire is a full member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP).

Claire works alongside Philippa Torkington (Private Client Partner) and their team includes:

• Harry Mistry, Legal Counsel (Senior Solicitor) ([email protected])
• Greg Baylis, Trainee Solicitor ([email protected])
• Claire Henshaw, Paralegal ([email protected])
• Maya Kan, Paralegal ([email protected])
• Georgia Brown, Paralegal ([email protected])

Claire Advises

  • Private individuals and families
  • High-net-worth individuals
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Business owners
  • Company directors
  • Executors and trustees
  • Sports personalities
  • Accountants
  • IFAs

Experience Highlights

  • Advising owners of family businesses regarding succession planning and asset protection including inheritance tax and personal tax aspects.
  • Advising on Family Investment Company structuring.
  • Establishing and managing family trusts with assets including properties and company shares for families with high value estates.
  • Advising high-net worth individuals on complex estates with multiple asset classes (including business and agricultural property) and complicated succession issues.
  • Advising trustees and beneficiaries on their duties, rights and powers.
  • Administering complex probate estates, including those with international and/or contentious aspects.
  • Advising families on generational wealth planning.
  • Advising on and drafting pension death benefit trusts and life insurance trusts.

Career History

Previous Law firms

  • Stephensons LLP
  • Brown Turner Ross
  • Hill Dickinson LLP

Memberships

  • Full member of STEP

Education

  • The College of Law Chester
  • University of Bristol, LLB (Hons)

Expertise

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Claire is a Private Client Solicitor with over 22 years’ experience in private client services, such as Wills and Estate Planning, Lasting Powers of Attorney, Trusts, and Probate, including cross border Estates. Claire specialises in advising business owners and high net worth individuals and their families on asset protection, succession planning and taxation.

Claire is a full member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP).

Claire works alongside Philippa Torkington (Private Client Partner) and their team includes:

• Harry Mistry, Legal Counsel (Senior Solicitor) ([email protected])
• Greg Baylis, Trainee Solicitor ([email protected])
• Claire Henshaw, Paralegal ([email protected])
• Maya Kan, Paralegal ([email protected])
• Georgia Brown, Paralegal ([email protected])

Claire Advises

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  • Private individuals and families
  • High-net-worth individuals
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Business owners
  • Company directors
  • Executors and trustees
  • Sports personalities
  • Accountants
  • IFAs

Experience Highlights

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  • Advising owners of family businesses regarding succession planning and asset protection including inheritance tax and personal tax aspects.
  • Advising on Family Investment Company structuring.
  • Establishing and managing family trusts with assets including properties and company shares for families with high value estates.
  • Advising high-net worth individuals on complex estates with multiple asset classes (including business and agricultural property) and complicated succession issues.
  • Advising trustees and beneficiaries on their duties, rights and powers.
  • Administering complex probate estates, including those with international and/or contentious aspects.
  • Advising families on generational wealth planning.
  • Advising on and drafting pension death benefit trusts and life insurance trusts.

Career History

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Previous Law firms

  • Stephensons LLP
  • Brown Turner Ross
  • Hill Dickinson LLP

Memberships

  • Full member of STEP

Education

  • The College of Law Chester
  • University of Bristol, LLB (Hons)

Claire's team
Philippa Torkington née Lewis
+44 (0) 7557 347 609 Email Philippa LinkedIn
Harry Mistry
0161 5295996 Email Harry