Kelly Noel-Smith

Practice Areas

Kelly specialises in advising wealthy families and their family offices on tax, governance and succession issues. Most of her work has an international dimension. She advises on the creation and operation of asset-holding structures to ensure wealth preservation, tax mitigation and to deal with succession issues.

She contributes regularly to tax journals and is a frequent speaker in Switzerland and the Channel Islands advising professionals there on the UK tax regime for asset holding structures.

Kelly heads Forsters Senior Executives Advisory team, which specialises in providing holistic advice to internationally mobile senior executives on tax, employment and immigration issues commonly experienced when moving to or from the UK.

She has an appreciation of the sometimes complex psychodynamic issues that arise within families surrounding wealth and has explored these in a literary context through a PhD and subsequent academic publications.

Career

She worked at Slaughter and May, where she qualified, for 4 years and then Lawrence Graham before becoming head of tax and private client at Radcliffes. She has been a partner at Forsters LLP since 2009.

Professional Memberships

Kelly is a member of The Law Society, STEP, Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists (ACTAPs).