Catherine R Hill

Hailed as a ‘leader in the field’ Legal 500, 2024, Catherine’s focus is advising UK domiciled and resident clients. Catherine is praised as ‘an extremely good technical lawyer with a practical approach’ and as having ‘fantastic client skills’. She specialises in estate planning, devising holding structures for family wealth including companies, partnerships and trusts.

With long experience of managing complex estates in the UK and abroad, Catherine works closely with the Corporate and Commercial and Family teams at Forsters to deliver strategic advice on asset structuring, succession and taxation that consider both the personal and commercial perspectives.

Catherine is also highly ranked in the latest Chambers UK Guide for Art and Cultural Property Law, described as having ‘an excellent reputation for dealing with contemporary artists and their estates. She is extremely knowledgeable in this space and has all the contacts that artists need”. As well as heading up Forsters’ Art and Cultural Property group, Catherine collaborates with specialist art advisors via Artistate Limited, an organisation that she co-founded to provide the complementary services required to support artists and their estates secure an enduring legacy.