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Harbottle & Lewis LLP

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Harbottle & Lewis LLP

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Managing Partner: Charles Leveque

Senior Partner: Gerrard Tyrell

Number of partners: 45

Number of lawyers (non-partner): 76

Firm Overview: 

For more than 65 years, Harbottle & Lewis has acted for some of the most creative, talented and successful people, businesses and corporates, across all of their legal needs. The firm’s private capital group brings together specialist professionals to provide a complete legal service for individuals, ensuring all of their clients’ personal and business affairs are looked after in order to maximise and protect their wealth, information and relationships. Clients include ultra-high-net-worth and high-net-worth individuals and established businesses, entrepreneurs, celebrities, media and sports personalities and their agents, property developers and start-ups from a variety of sectors and jurisdictions.

Ethos: 

The firm’s legal and tax professionals take the time to understand their clients and their businesses, to ensure that their advice is specific and effective. Whether it’s wealth, relationships or reputation, the firm's private capital expertise enables it to support its clients to successfully develop, grow and protect their assets.

The firm prides itself on providing practical advice that allows clients to continue to maximise their capital, while at the same time protecting them from risk and potentially costly disputes. The firm enjoys a culture of long-standing client relationships, built on trust, and firmly anchored in the quality of its service.

UK Based, International Advice: 

The majority of clients require advice that has an international dimension. Whether it is wealth structuring, immigration advice, business advice or advice on arriving, leaving or investing in the UK, the firm makes sure that client’s UK interests are aligned with their international affairs.

Main Areas of Practice:  

Family: 

The firm has a proven track record of handling complex family law issues with sensitivity and compassion, quietly and efficiently. It fights its clients’ corner – but it does so with respect and consideration for their family.

The firm is respected within the profession for resolving matters quickly and discreetly.

Personal Tax & Wealth-Structuring: 

The firm provides comprehensive wealth-structuring advice. It has a diverse client base, which means that it often comes across problems requiring innovative solutions.

The firm's clients benefit from its expertise in creating the most efficient structure to serve their personal circumstances.

Philanthropy & Charity: 

By sharing a genuine understanding of what its clients want to achieve (gained from advising HNW and high-profile individuals and families, together with wide contacts in the philanthropic sector), Harbottle & Lewis can provide clear, transparent advice on structuring arrangements in the most tax efficient way.

Probate & Trust Management: 

The firm believes that, during a time of bereavement, its clients need clear advice, provided with compassion and sensitivity. The firm can act in an administrative capacity for trustees and executors, while advising beneficiaries on the ways in which they might be able to mitigate inheritance tax through the use of past death variations of wills.

Reputation Protection: 

Reputation is built over time but can be destroyed in minutes. The speed with which material, true or false, can spread on a global basis means it is essential that steps are taken to protect personal information and respond quickly and decisively when it is under threat. The firm acts for individuals, corporates and well-known brands to protect reputation and privacy, and to safeguard sensitive information. It has an unrivalled history in reputation protection.

Residential Property: 

The firm deals with all aspects of high-value residential property, from sales and purchases to lettings, re-developments and disputes. It is experienced at structuring acquisitions efficiently, and works with experts in its property litigation and tax teams in order to provide a comprehensive service to its clients.

Wills & Estate Planning: 

The firm provides a personalised, compassionate, and discreet service. Its clients benefit from its extensive experience dealing with UHNW families and individuals, as well as estates containing image rights, royalties and other such assets and income streams.

Focus: 

Tax succession & wealth planning; Immigration; Reputation management; Residential property; Employment; Family; Charity; Commercial & corporate; Disputes; Venture capital.

Key Clients: 

The firm acts for ultra- and high-net-worth individuals and public figures on all aspects of their personal and financial affairs. In the last year, the firm has advised on various prominent reputational management issues on behalf of high profile clients, corporates and brands including Kate Moss; David and Victoria Beckham and The Royal Family. All private wealth clients are confidential.

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Sofie Hoffman
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Real Estate: High Value Residential
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Caroline Roberjot
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Gerrard Tyrrell
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John Kelly
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Family Offices & Funds Structuring
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Jonathan Burt
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Catherine Bedford
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