INDIVIDUAL PROFILE
Russell Cohen

Russell Cohen

High Net Worth 2025

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Ranked in 2 practice areas

About

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High Net Worth

Practice Areas

Russell has over twenty years of experience in advising clients how to navigate the complexities of private wealth. He has a personable and collaborative style, and is known for advice that is practical and pragmatic.

Russell works with individuals and families, trustees and family offices, often in an international context.

Russell advises clients on how best to structure their wealth, including wealth preservation, tax and succession planning. He has a particular expertise with regard to tax planning for non-domiciled individuals and non-UK trusts.

He also provides guidance on family governance issues, including how a family can structure its wealth in a way that is consistent with its values, and so as to preserve its reputation.

Russell is head of international strategy at Farrer & Co and is also responsible for Farrers' Immigration team. The team has particular expertise in advising entrepreneurs, investors and executives and it frequently advises individuals and families on matters involving political sensitivity.

Career

Russell qualified as a solicitor in 2000.

Professional Memberships

He is a founding member of the STEP Responsible Stewardship of Wealth Thought Leadership special interest group, as well as a member of the Editorial Board for International Family Offices Journal.

Chambers Review

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Chambers High Net Worth

Private Wealth Law - London (Firms)

Band 1
Band 1

Individual Editorial

Russell Cohen is experienced across a broad range of matters in private wealth, such as tax, trusts and structuring. In addition to advising his clients on complex, multi-jurisdictional wealth structuring, Cohen is the head of international strategy at the firm.

Family Offices & Funds Structuring - UK-wide

Band 3
Band 3

Individual Editorial

Russell Cohen advises international and UK-based clients on wealth structuring, succession planning and family governance. Cohen has more than 25 years of experience in private wealth matters.

Strengths

Provided by Chambers

  • Russell Cohen is highly skilled and a pleasure to work with.

    Private Wealth LawChambers High Net Worth
  • Russell Cohen showed deep empathy at all levels with the family and held the room with his gravitas.

    Private Wealth LawChambers High Net Worth
  • Russell is really good. He knows his stuff and is a pleasure to work with.

    Private Wealth LawChambers High Net Worth
  • Russell is very well respected; he's fundamentally a very good lawyer.

    Private Wealth LawChambers High Net Worth
  • Russell Cohen is extremely good; a brilliant lawyer.

    Private Wealth LawChambers High Net Worth
  • Russell Cohen listens and tries to be very reassuring for clients. He's able to find the right people in and out of the firm to help.

    Family Offices & Funds StructuringChambers High Net Worth

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