Hannah advises on a broad range of private client issues including tax, particularly tax issues affecting international clients, HMRC enquiries, asset structuring and associated governance issues, estate and succession planning, wills and trusts.
Hannah advises non-UK domiciled clients on their pre-arrival tax planning, remittance issues and trust structures, as well as advising UK clients on their tax and estate planning. She assists clients in relation to HMRC disclosures and enquires covering a variety of different and often complex personal tax issues.
Hannah also advises trustees on UK tax and trust law issues, including governance issues relating to complex family asset-holding and succession structures.
The majority of Hannah’s work has an international element, including advising internationally mobile clients in particular based in (or with interests in) the US, Europe and Asia.
The clients Hannah assists include high-net-worth individuals and families, entrepreneurs, family offices and trustees based both in the UK and elsewhere.
Hannah holds the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners’ Advanced Certificate in UK Tax for International Clients.
Hannah was included in the eprivateclient NextGen Leaders list in 2023. Hannah also won a bronze award in the Citywealth: Woman of the Year – Future Leaders – Associate category in 2021.
Hannah was selected as a Rising Leader in the Private Client Global Elite Directory 2022/23, a peer-nominated list of the world's most respected lawyers advising ultra-high-net-worth clients.
Experience
- Advising ultra-high-net-worth, non-UK domiciled clients on structuring their affairs in light of the post-2017 deemed domicile regime, including implications of becoming deemed domiciled for clients’ non-UK trust and asset-holding structures, and ensuring that trusts retain protected settlement status.
- Advising on a trust restructuring involving multi-jurisdictional tax and trust law issues including complex checks and balances between the power-holders.
- Advising clients in relation to HMRC enquiries into their personal tax affairs, including in relation to issues such as domicile, tax residence and the application of double tax treaties in this context, and the residence status of a non-UK asset-holding company.
- Advising on the distribution of trust and personal assets of a high-net-worth family to beneficiaries in several different jurisdictions and co-ordinating cross-jurisdictional advice in this regard.
- Advising clients who are moving to the UK on pre-arrival planning, including their UK residence status, the taxation of non-domiciled individuals in the UK related issues.