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VIEW ALLLegal 500 2023Liz Palmer is a great private client lawyer: practical, approachable, responsive and attuned to a client’s needs.
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Liz Palmer provides clients with comprehensive, commercial, and tax-driven private wealth planning advice to achieve succession without dispute. She leads the Private Wealth sector and Private Client and Family teams.
Liz advises wealthy families, entrepreneurs, and property investors on inheritance tax mitigation and the effective devolution of family wealth.
She has particular expertise acting for non-UK resident/domiciled individuals and specialises in the creation of off shore trusts and complex asset structuring for high-net-worth individuals.
Her practice regularly involves cross-border succession planning for international clients who have personal and business assets all over the world. Her expertise extends to dealing with complexities of digital estates.
Liz deals with all forms of inheritance tax and capital gains tax planning and also advises on wills and estate planning particularly for clients with interests and connections with the US.
She has significant experience advising clients about succession, protection of family businesses and devising family governance.
Liz is a solicitor and chartered tax adviser (member of Chartered Institute of Taxation).
- Advising the trustees of offshore trusts about resettlement of beneficiaries interests - considering all aspects of UK anti-avoidance tax legislation.
- Providing English tax and succession advice to clients with US and UK estates, devising a joined up succession plan to ensure efficiency in both jurisdictions.
- Advising non-UK tax resident clients about the tax efficient ownership of UK real estate.
- Helping a family business to devise and implement governance structures and family charters.
- Acting as an independent trustee and director to implement a settlement agreement reached by parties in dispute.
- Listed as Key Lawyer, Private client: Personal tax, trusts and probate, Legal 500 2023
- "Liz Palmer is a great private client lawyer: practical, approachable, responsive and attuned to a client’s needs." Legal 500 2023
- "Liz Palmer is the next generation of excellent, technical, common sense advice and on top is a truly lovely person." Legal 500 2023
- "We have been working with Liz Palmer for many years. She is very knowledgeable about UK, offshore trust structures and is up to date with all the regulatory and legal changes affecting tax planning. The client always comes first with Liz, she always delivers good advice in a timely way". Legal 500 2023
- Ranked, Private Wealth Law, Chambers HNW 2022
- "I trust her judgement completely. She is able to explain the pros and cons of the options, which helps me make decisions easily." Chambers HNW 2022
- "She has a razor-sharp intellect, is incredibly relatable and able to build trust and confidence naturally." Chambers HNW 2022
- Listed as Key Lawyer, Personal Tax, Trusts and Probate, Legal 500 2022
- "Liz Palmer has great instincts in solving complex cross-jurisdictional issues." Legal 500 2022
- "High quality of advice. Personal and effective service. Finds solutions to complex issues. Liz Palmer." Legal 500 2022
- "Liz Palmer is very capable – she is always on top of her game, calm, commercially minded and very nice." Legal 500 2022
- Ranked, Private Wealth Law, Chambers HNW 2021
- "She is commercial, proactive and quick to respond. She has a rare expertise in understanding UK tax issues for US-connected clients." Chambers HNW 2021
- "Palmer stands out for her very nuanced understanding of the law and her ability to take a considered and pragmatic view on potential courses of action." Chambers HNW 2021
- Ranked, Private Wealth Law, Chambers HNW 2020
- "She has a rare expertise in understanding UK tax issues for US-connected clients." Chambers High Net Worth 2020
- "She is commercial, proactive and quick to respond." Chambers High Net Worth 2020
- Listed as Key Lawyer, Personal Tax, Trusts and Probate, Legal 500 2020
Liz is a keen cyclist both on and off the road (she regularly takes on London traffic by cycling to work), an enthusiastic open water swimmer and Blue Peter badge holder!