Practice Areas
Peter is a Partner and the Head of Private Wealth. He specialises in trusts, tax and estate planning, specifically acting for high net worth individuals, particularly those with cross-jurisdictional affairs, trustees and beneficiaries of UK and overseas trusts, and executors and administrators of estates, including those involving disputes. Peter also regularly advises entrepreneurs, business owners and landowners on their estate planning.
Peter has particular expertise in advising clients with a US element to their affairs.
Work Highlights
Advising on the gifting/disposal of a significant country house.
Together with a number of colleagues across the firm, providing a wide range of advice to a large single family office and members of the connected family.
Acting as a trustee for a series of family trusts, and providing legal and tax advice in respect of those.
Advising on the UK tax position of two substantial trusts established in the US by a husband and wife, one of whom had died.