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Clare Stirzaker

Clare Stirzaker, Private Wealth Partner, Boodle Hatfield

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Private Client & Tax

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Clare Stirzaker, Private Wealth Partner, Boodle Hatfield

Clare specialises in succession planning and related legal and tax matters for multi-generational families and their family offices.

She works alongside some of the world’s leading private businesses and her practice focuses on how to help individuals developing their succession planning strategy and designing bespoke asset holding and wealth management structures including PTCs, limited partnership structures and foundations. Clare has particular experience of advising and supporting families on implementing family and corporate governance frameworks to support successful wealth transition. She also supports clients in developing their philanthropic strategy to enable greater and more effective wealth distribution.

Clare is recognised for her work having won multiple awards from the leading private wealth award bodies.

Prior to joining the firm, Clare was a Partner at PwC and also worked at Barclays Wealth, providing her with a real breadth of experience and commercial insight across the private client sector.

Areas of Practice

Private Client, International Wealth Planning, Family Business, International, Tax & Advisory, Charities, Philanthropy and Non-Profit, Families and Family Office, Trust and Succession Planning, Wills and Lasting Powers of Attorney, Probate and Administration of Estate

Awards & Rankings

Chambers HNW, Ranked Individual, 2022

Spear’s Top 10 Tax Lawyers Index,  2022

Eprivateclient, Top 50 most Influential Private Client Advisors, 2020

Spear’s Top 10 Tax & Trust Advisers Index, 2019-2020

STEP awards, Family Business Advisory Team of the Year, 2017

Memberships

Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP)

Education & Qualification

Keele University

Kellogg School of Management, Family Business Advanced Education Program

Qualified as a Solicitor in 2008

Chambers HNW, Ranked Individual, 2022

Spear’s Top 10 Tax Lawyers Index,  2022

Eprivateclient, Top 50 most Influential Private Client Advisors, 2020

Spear’s Top 10 Tax & Trust Advisers Index, 2019-2020

STEP awards, Family Business Advisory Team of the Year, 2017

Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP)

Keele University

Kellogg School of Management, Family Business Advanced Education Program

Qualified as a Solicitor in 2008

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3 min read 29 Sep 2022 Boodle Hatfield’s Private Wealth team uplifted to tier one in Legal 500 UK 2023

Boodle Hatfield’s ‘highly respected’ ‘standout’ Private Wealth team have been elevated to tier one in the ‘Personal Tax, Trusts and Probate’ category of the 2023 guide. The firm is also delighted to report that as well as being uplifted, it has retained its top tier status in six other categories, affirming its position as one of London’s leading law firms.

 Read more 2 min read 24 Aug 2022 James Woods-Davison speaks at the ThoughtLeaders4 & ContTrA event on ‘Investment & ESG’

Senior Associate, James Woods-Davison is speaking the at the ThoughtLeaders4 & ConTrA Private Client Summer School: The Ultimate Insider’s Guide, taking place at Downing College, Cambridge on 24th – 26th August 2022.

 Read more 4 min read 27 Jul 2022 Boodle Hatfield publishes guide to help family businesses to survive the impact of divorce

Boodle Hatfield has today published a comprehensive legal guide to help family businesses manage the fallout of divorce. Written by Partner, Katie O’Callaghan the book – A Legacy Intact: safeguarding your family business in the event of divorce, will be distributed and made available online today, as part of the firm’s series of 300-year anniversary initiatives.

 Read more 3 min read 24 Jun 2022 Boodle Hatfield shortlisted for four awards in the STEP Private Client Awards

We are delighted to announce that we have been shortlisted for four categories in the STEP Private Client Awards.

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