Our services
We deal with estate planning in the widest sense, from tax planning to complex property issues, including:

• Sales and purchases of estates, farms and country houses


• Development land sales and associated tax advice


• Drafting wills and advising on will disputes


• Inheritance tax and pre-owned assets tax planning


• Capital gains tax advice and mitigation


• Formation, administration and taxation of trusts


• Probates


• Powers of attorney


• Family arrangements and deeds of variation


• Formation and taxation of farm partnerships


• Family farming disputes


• Agricultural tenancies, including farmhouses and cottages


• Single farm payment


• Environmental issues


• Farm contracting and share farming

What our clients say about us
“Fantastic” Jeremy Heal leads the tax team and is considered to have a “tremendous brain which he applies to estate planning matters with palpable success.”
“Jeremy Heal is rated by market voices as ‘technically excellent – he has the most wonderful brain and enjoys a tremendous rapport with clients’.”
Chambers and Partners

“Catherine Scott is easy to work with and sets a very high standard.”
“Jeremy Heal and Catherine Scott are popular with clients, who describe a ‘first-class, professional service’.”
“Howes Percival’s team is strong on complex tax planning, and administers some substantial estates. Clients say that Jeremy Heal ‘understands the issues and gets to the nub of a question’, and is ‘one of the leading private client lawyers in the country’.”
Legal 500