Joe Cobb

Practice Areas

Joe Cobb is a Partner and Head of the Private Client Department in JMW’s Manchester Office. His expertise relates to providing tax, estate and succession planning to ultra-high net worth individuals, institutional clients and entrepreneurs, with a focus on owner-managed businesses and corporate vehicles.

He also has extensive experience advising on trust formation and administration, high value and international estate administration, and contentions trusts and estates.

Joe’s experience includes the following:

• Advising as to the restructure and sale of numerous family owned businesses taking into account ownership by family trusts, taxation considerations and the corporate issues which arise.

• Advising high net worth clients as to the formation of Family Investment Companies for tax mitigation.

• Administration of complex, multi-million pound, international and litigious estates.

• Advising non UK resident high net worth individuals on funding the purchase of UK properties and tax efficient structures, including advising on income tax, capital gains tax and inheritance tax implications of purchasing and owning assets personally or through various corporate structures

• Incorporation and registration of a new charitable companies and the establishment and registration of charitable trusts.

Joe is a full member of The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP).