Clare Stirzaker - Private Wealth Partner - Boodle Hatfield

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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 & 2023

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 & 2023

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 Nov 2023 Governance Masterclass with Family Business UK

We are delighted that Private Wealth Partner, Clare Stirzaker will be joining Family Business UK for their Governance Masterclass on 29 November.

 Read more 5 min read 11 Sep 2023 The Lessons in Legacy Podcast, Philanthropy Edition, In Conversation with Sarah Woolnough

In this episode, Alberto Lidji and Clare Stirzaker are joined by Sarah Woolnough. Sarah is the CEO of Asthma + Lung UK, a charity leading the fight to improve care and support for everyone with a lung condition. Together Alberto, Sarah and Clare look at the impact donations and supporters have on charities and the work undertaken to build personal relationships with philanthropists to build trust and ensure a mutual partnership is aligning with the objectives of both parties.

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Immigration Partner, Zoe Jacob has today been appointed as a member of the Law Society’s Immigration Law Committee where she will help shape Law Society policy on immigration related issues affecting the profession, access to justice and the rule of law – now and into the future.

 Read more 4 min read 04 Sep 2023 Family businesses and turbulent economies – building on strengths

In turbulent economic times family-run businesses have shown their ability to often cope with economic ups and downs relatively well. In Family Business United, Senior Associate, Charlie Hewlett looks at the reasons behind the intrinsic resilience of family businesses and highlights the practical measures that should be considered in the current economic environment.

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