As a specialist in UK trust taxation, individual taxation, non-resident trust beneficiaries, and remittance basis users, Adrian addresses diverse family situations, providing comprehensive legal and administrative support to trustees, executors, and individuals. Since joining Penningtons Manches Cooper in 2002, Adrian has amassed extensive experience in assisting UK clients with wealth structures. He helps protect family wealth through effective gifting to future generations while maintaining management control of assets. His expertise encompasses the establishment and ongoing administration of trusts, family investment companies, and family limited partnerships.

With broad and in-depth knowledge of the UK tax system and wealth structure administration, Adrian advises clients on the implications of different options, empowering them to make informed decisions. He also has significant experience of advising business owners on pre-sale strategies and creating vehicles to preserve and enhance family wealth. Adrian frequently contributes thought leadership articles on private wealth topics.

She specialises in acting for registered providers (including housing associations and local authorities) and other housing providers in the sale and purchase of both outright and affordable housing. Laura has led teams delivering shared ownership and other sales on some of the largest development and regeneration sites in the country. She also has significant experience specialising in advising clients on the sales programmes on large joint venture/mixed tenure schemes.

Laura also deals with all after-sales matters and is one of the leading experts in delivering significant high-volume re-sales, staircasing and lease extension programmes. She has a reputation of delivering significant sales and after-sales programmes on time and on budget. Laura is a member of the Chartered Institute of Housing, the National Sales Group and Women in Social Housing.

He has acted for private individuals, family offices and landed estates, through to prominent investment institutions and developers, including dealing with both borrower and lender funding, asset management and landlord and tenant matters. James also has extensive experience of acting for the public sector, having previously spent a number of years working for and advising numerous social housing providers on a mix of project types, including outright development, section 106 purchases, commercial lettings and disposals and dealing with energy centre infrastructure and leasing.

His main focus is on institutional investment work, together with commercial and residential development for private and public sector developers, with a particular interest in sustainability, and in providing commercial advice and action, tailored to the particular client and transaction in order to achieve the best and most comprehensive outcome.

She specialises in the administration of estates which often involves complex matters including unusual assets, intestacies, offshore estates and resealing the Grant of Probate in other jurisdictions.  Hannah also advises the trustees of a number of family established charities and offers advice on the establishment and management of these charitable trusts.

Hannah joined the firm in 2008 as a trainee solicitor, qualifying in 2010.  She was promoted to her current role as associate director in 2020. She is a full member of the Society of Trusts and Estate Practitioners (STEP), the world’s leading organization for private wealth professionals and has been ranked in Chambers High Net Worth and the Legal 500.