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MAURICE | TURNOR | GARDNER

Clare Maurice Senior Partner

Clare is the Senior Partner of Maurice Turnor Gardner LLP.

Clare’s main specialism is international tax and estate planning for UK and non-UK domiciled individuals and families with complex assets located in many jurisdictions looking for solutions to the tax and structural challenges of global wealth. She also advises both resident and non-UK resident trustees on legal and practical issues which are relevant to them and their beneficiaries.

Clare has a wealth of experience advising on philanthropy matters and, in particular, how to establish and operate charities.

Clare is a top-ranked Band 1 lawyer in the Chambers High Net Worth guide. In the 2019 edition, interviewees comment that "she is a force of nature, a really energetic, driven woman. She is really creative and wonderful to work with." Another enthuses: "She is superb, she has incredibly good judgement and clients love her," praising the combination of "her great intelligence, enormous experience and excellent judgement," and adding: "Clients love being advised by her. She will tell it how it is - she is very confident, she has been doing this a long time. She is very direct and clients love that."

She is also ranked as a Band 1 individual by the Chambers Global guide, where she features in the International Private Client - Global-wide category. A peer refers to her as "one of the top private client lawyers in the world" and adds "she has experience and judgement to a level that exceeds almost anybody else. She has really, really brilliant judgement and is a great person, which clients sense. Everybody I recommend her to has been delighted with her. She is a joy to work with."

Clare is named as a Leading Individual in the Legal 500 Directory and a Notable Practitioner in Chambers & Partners (UK). She was ranked by Best Lawyers 2020 as a leading specialist in the area of Trusts and Personal Tax, and named as a member of the Private Client Global Elite by Legal Week in 2019.

Clare qualified in October 1978 and details of her recent experience are outlined below.

Contact

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Experience

Private Wealth

Clare advises trustees, beneficiaries, family offices, entrepreneurs, private banks and trust companies on trust law, estate planning and personal taxation.

Her practice has a distinctly international focus and she advises clients from all over the world (and, in particular, the Americas, the Middle East and Europe) on all aspects of pre-arrival planning, residence/domicile issues and the establishment of asset holding structures. Clare has a particular interest in US/UK succession planning and speaks regularly in the US and the Caribbean.

Recent experience includes:

Advising a family on the reorganisation of a complex, cross-jurisdictional, multi billion dollar trust which involved six jurisdictions (US, Mexico, UK, Bermuda, The British Virgin Islands and Guernsey). Considerations included English, US and Central American taxation, retaining some control and involvement for the client's family and trusted advisors, incorporating flexibility to provide for the needs of several generations of beneficiaries and ensuring a high level of confidentiality in the structure.

Advising a Middle Eastern family on the structuring of their worldwide assets, which range from substantial business holdings, investment assets and private equity interests, to real estate in several jurisdictions, planes, a yacht and other assets. The exercise included the establishment of a private trust company to work alongside the family office in managing and monitoring the family's wealth.

In addition to acting as trustee of a number of private family trusts in the UK, Clare regularly advises UK resident and domiciled individuals and trustees on trust law and estate planning matters, ranging from traditional Wills and probate matters to mental capacity issues and trusts for disabled persons.

Recognised by Spear’s Wealth Management as one of the “Top 5 Tax and Trust Solicitors” and consistently ranked individually in the first tier of the legal directories, Clare's well-established position as one of the private wealth industry’s leading practitioners and longstanding “trusted adviser” to many means that she is one of 5 "Most Highly Regarded Individuals" by Who's Who Legal Private Client 2014. She is described as "an esteemed practitioner who enjoys a great reputation in the legal market."

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Philanthropy and Charities

Clare has a wealth of experience of all of the legal, practical and taxation issues which arise in the context of charity, philanthropy and chartered corporations, including the issues which are relevant to parties transacting with charitable bodies.

She works closely with her clients to establish and implement their philanthropic objectives and has advised on the establishment of a number of charitable foundations (both grant-making and operating charities), including:

the Drayson Foundation;
the Ingram Trust; and
the Bellhouse Foundation.

Clare also has invaluable first-hand experience of the operational management of charities, having acted as Chairman of Barts and the London Charity for eight years until March 2009. She was appointed Chairman of the charity Co-ordinated Action Against Domestic Abuse in 2011 and is also a trustee of the Childwick Trust.

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Articles by Clare

MTG appoints Emma-Jane Weider as Managing Partner

In brief We are delighted to announce that Emma-Jane Weider has been appointed the firm’s Managing Partner. This new role will be complemented with the continuing service of Clare Maurice as Senior Partner. Read more

New partner joining MTG as Head of Litigation

In brief We are delighted to announce that Rupert Ticehurst will join the firm as Head of Litigation. Read more

Clare Maurice Elected President of the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law

In brief Clare Maurice, Senior Partner, has been elected President of the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law. Membership is by invitation only and is a highly selective group of individuals who practise trust and estate planning. Read more

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Memberships

Clare is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) and is an elected member of both the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law and an International Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel.