Wedlake Bell LLP

Managing Partner: Martin Arnold
Senior Partner: Kim Lalli
Languages spoken in the private client team include: Afrikaans, Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Mandarin, Portuguese and Spanish.

Firm Overview:
Wedlake Bell are a contemporary London law firm, rooted in tradition with a lasting legacy of client service. Founded in 1780, the firm recognises the long-standing relationships it has with its clients and how they have helped shape the firm’s past and provide a platform for its future. The firm operates on a four practice group model: private client, business services, real estate and disputes. The firm’s driving force is to empower clients by providing quality legal advice, insight and intelligence that enables them to achieve their goals whether personal or business. The firm is large enough to advise on the most complex matters, but small enough to ensure that its people and work remain exceptional and dynamic. Building relationships is at the heart of everything Wedlake Bell does.

Private Client Services:
Wedlake Bell’s private client group consists of the private client, residential property, art & luxury and family teams.

Whilst other law firms have shifted their focus from private to corporate clients, Wedlake Bell has consolidated its team of tax, trust and estate lawyers, advising on the following:

■ UK and international estate planning and administration
■ UK taxation and tax planning (income tax, capital gains tax and inheritance tax and also the taxation of offshore companies and structures)
■ Trusts and foundations and their use in tax planning
■ Tax and estate planning for clients coming to and leaving the UK
■ UK tax residence and domicile
■ Family office (creation and administration)
■ Disputed inheritances, wills and trusts
■ Charities (including charitable foundations)
■ As members of TELFA and USLAW, the firm is also able to advise international clients on cross-border issues

Contact: Caroline Miller

Residential Property:
The firm is committed to providing the highest quality and commercially driven residential property advice to help protect and grow its clients’ interests. Supporting clients on a broad range of residential property matters including the following:

■ Sales and purchases of all types of residential property (including houses, flats, penthouses and apartments, residential blocks, garages, estates and land)
■ Multi-jurisdiction transactions for buyers and sellers based overseas
■ Development work including site acquisition, unit sales and purchases
■ Portfolio sales and acquisitions
■ Lease extensions
■ Individual and collective enfranchisement
■ The granting and taking of leases
■ Tenancy agreements
■ Restructuring of clients’ property assets

Contact: Parminder Sidhu

Art and Luxury:
Our core team have an unrivalled combination of art and luxury market and legal expertise. They advise clients ranging from artists, private collectors and international art galleries through to collector car dealers, fine wine financiers, yacht owners and private equity backed musical instrument funds. They have recently acted on some of the most ground-breaking cases relating to artists' rights and high-value title disputes, whilst also saving collections for the nation and helping clients to achieve world-record auction results.

Contact: Tim Maxwell or Rudy Capildeo

Family:
Wedlake Bell’s experienced family team can advise you on all matters relating to family law, from the most simple of cases to the more complex and sensitive situations including international law. The firm uses its broad experience and detailed insight of family law to provide clients with first class advice on a range of matrimonial matters.

The team boasts solicitors who are leaders in their field including mediation, collaborative law, arbitration and a specialist children law department who are able to deal with leave to remove children abroad, abductions, surrogacy agreement and all aspects of children work.

Extensive knowledge in this area means the firm can advise people who may be married, living together, in civil partnerships or living as husband and wife in accordance with Shariah Law.

The family team has the advantage of a dedicated data protection and information law specialist, which enables the firm to provide expert advice in this specialised and complex area.

Contact: Matthew Brunsdon-Tully