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Position

Partner

Head of department

Index

Tax Lawyers

Location

City of Bristol

Advice type

Estate planning

Inter-generational tax

Legal - Tax, wills & trusts

Probate

Succession planning

Asset Class

Landed estates

Client type

Entrepreneurs

Sector Focus

Legal Advisory Services

Jim Aveline

Spear’s Review

Jim Aveline is a long-time Burges Salmon partner and head of the firm’s private client services department.

‘Some clients are international; some are more UK res-dom focused. [I see] lots of landed estates work, old farming families or people who have bought farms recently, and family business and succession work,’ he says.

Aveline advises on tax, trusts, estate planning and intergenerational tax, and often delves into high-value probate cases. He observes a great deal of change in the way in which structures are now used to hold wealth; trusts, companies or partnerships are increasingly widespread. This has caused a definite shift away from complex structures likely to be challenged by HMRC.

‘Clients are reaching the point where they would rather pay the tax,’ he says.

Rank: Recommended

Recommended 2025, Tax Lawyers

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