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Tim Williams

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About

Tim is a partner in firm and a private wealth lawyer specialising in tax, estate planning and trust work.

He advises a broad range of clients, including trustees, entrepreneurs, landed estates and families, and his work covers complex succession planning, capital gains tax and inheritance tax issues, and wealth and asset structuring.

Tim also works with a number of family business, in particular landowning and farming businesses, to advise on succession and tax structures, including partnerships, trusts and companies. His work with landowners includes advising on the taxation and structuring of strategic land holdings and development sales, with a particular focus on equalisation arrangements in multi-landowner deals.

He also advises the owners and managers of sporting estates on the establishment and management of sporting clubs for the purposes of the VAT exemption.

Tim is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) and regularly speaks at conferences and events, and is a co-host of ‘Death and Taxes’, the private wealth podcast from Burges Salmon.

He was named by the Legal 500 in 2024 as a Leading Associate in both Personal Tax, Trusts and Probate, and Agriculture and Estates.

Experience

  • Owners of development land: Advising on equalisation arrangements between the owners of development land and the implementation of cross option and land pooling arrangements.
  • Farming and land management businesses: Advising on partnership structures for tax and succession planning.
  • Large farming businesses: Advising on the tax consequences of the partition of large farming businesses between family members.
  • Trustees and individuals: Advising on claims for business relief and agricultural property relief for inheritance tax.
  • Trustees: Advising trustees on momentous decision making regarding restructuring and tax events.
  • Sporting clubs: Advising on the establishment and running of sporting clubs within the VAT exemption to manage shoots around the country.

Credentials

  • Admitted as a solicitor: England & Wales (2011)
  • Member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners

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“The team are all very personable and give good practical advice. Tim Williams, in particular, gives good, clear advice, both verbally and in writing.”

Legal 500 UK, 2024

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