Our leading Private Wealth team is dedicated to achieving your objectives. We understand that business success and family wealth bring great responsibility.

Our lawyers help UK and international clients navigate the legal issues that arise through the opportunities and challenges life brings, providing commercially astute and pragmatic advice on wealth protection, succession planning, and personal tax matters.

Whether advising on wills and trusts, resolving disputes, tax planning, or assisting on global real estate matters, our Private Wealth specialists have a leading reputation for providing practical and effective advice and will work with you to grow, protect and share your wealth.

Our long-standing client relationships often span several generations of the same family and we work with a skilled network of trusted, hand-picked professional advisers to ensure that you receive outstanding commercial advice. We are also adept at working closely with our clients’ professional advisers.

What we advise on
  • Agriculture, farms and estates
  • Business owners and entrepreneurs
  • Charities, impact businesses & philanthropy
  • Court of Protection & deputyship
  • Employee benefits consultancy services
  • Family law
  • Immigration and global mobility
  • Inheritance and trust disputes
  • Inheritance tax strategies
  • International wealth structuring
  • Private client
  • Probate services
  • Residential property
  • Senior executive employment advice
  • Wills, trusts, and estate planning
  • Digitalisation and digital transformation, including in relation to investment in adjacent industries and sectors
  • Design, creative and corporate branding and advertising, sponsorship and brand placement, reputation and brand management
  • Investment in Fintech, blockchain and smart contracts, cryptocurrency, token and securities, ICOs and other digital financial products
  • Space regulation and policy, and commercial exploitation of outer space activities, including IP/IT arrangements
  • Responsible AI
Who we work with
  • High-net-worth individuals
  • Business owners
  • Multi-generational families
  • Investors
  • Inheritors
  • Real-estate developers
  • Business advisors

Meet our team

Stephen Abletshauser
Founding Partner BVI - Corporate, Private Client & Estate Planning
Hilesh Chavda
Partner - Private Client
Valerie Cooper
Partner - Family Law
Ursula Danagher
Partner - International Family Law
Natalie Gefen
Partner - Real Estate, Probate & Wills
Richard Gilbert
Partner - Family, Contested Trust & Probate
Diane Liston
Partner - Family, Private Client and Litigation
Zac Lucas
Partner – International Private Client
Hudda Sara Morgan
Partner - Probate, Administration of Estates
Katherine Muldoon FCIArb
Partner - Private Client
Kelly Nottage, Founding Partner Spencer West Bahamas
K. Kelly Nottage
Founding Partner Bahamas - International Private Client, Trusts and Estates
Tony Pearce
Consultant – Will, Trust and Estate Disputes
Sangeeta Rabadia
Partner - Private Client
Rich Risino
Partner - Private Client
Daniel Russell, Spencer West corporate lawyer
Daniel Russell
Partner - Corporate, Investment Funds, Finance
Venisha Shah
Partner – Family Law
Mark Tan
Partner - International Tax
Gregory Walsh
Founding Partner Switzerland – Tax, Private Wealth & Financial Services