Emma-Jane brought comfort to clients in complicated cases with clear communications and constructive arguments.

Chambers & Partners (HNW)

Emma-Jane Weider is Managing Partner of Maurice Turnor Gardner and advises wealthy families, trustees, banks and charitable organisations on tax, estate planning, trust and philanthropy matters.

Her practice combines international private wealth advice with experience in charity, immigration and commercial trusts. She is often instructed where clients need practical, coordinated advice across several areas, including tax, trust structuring, family governance, property, immigration and philanthropy.
She has particular experience advising international clients on UK tax and estate planning, especially in connection with arrival in or departure from the UK. She also advises on tax-efficient cross-border giving and the issues that arise when clients or counterparties transact with charities.

Expertise

Private Wealth

Emma-Jane advises UK and international clients on tax, estate planning, trusts, asset-holding structures, and the private client aspects of residential property.

She has particular experience advising international individuals on pre-arrival planning, UK residence, and ownership of UK real estate. She also advises UK clients on inheritance planning, Wills, lasting powers of attorney and trust law.

She regularly works alongside advisers in banking, accountancy, insurance, family, employment, real estate and corporate tax to coordinate advice for clients with complex personal and business interests.

Philanthropy and Charities

Emma-Jane advises operating and grant-making charities, philanthropists and counterparties dealing with charitable bodies.

Her work includes charity governance, trustee duties, tax-efficient giving, cross-border philanthropy, international charity structures and charity law issues arising in probate, banking, investment and commercial transactions.

She has particular experience advising arts, education, religious and cross-border charities.

Commercial Trusts and Chartered Bodies

Emma-Jane advises on trust, tax and charity issues arising in commercial contexts, including share trusts, escrow arrangements, management acquisitions and trustee powers.

She also advises chartered corporations on constitutional, governance, and Privy Council matters.

Immigration

Emma-Jane advises individuals and families on the immigration aspects of moving to the UK, including applications for spouses and dependents.

Her work includes advising international clients, private banks and financial institutions on visa requirements and the practical steps involved in obtaining the correct permissions to enter or remain in the UK.

A calm head who can see clearly the way forward.

Chambers & Partners (HNW)

Emma-Jane Weider recommends

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

Giorgio Bassani
Bitter sweet novel about a group of young friends in Ferrara, Italy in the 1930s and the ominous rise of fascism. It was recommended to me by my college room mate many years ago and I named my daughter after its captivating central character.

Nora Jane, a Life in Stories

Ellen Gillchrist
Ellen Gillchrist has taken my favourite character Nora Jane Whittington from her various compilations of short stories of the American South and gathered them together in one collection with some wonderful new material. I love that Gillchrist has continued to develop this strong female character over the length of her writing career.

The Return of the Native

Thomas Hardy
My favourite of all of Hardy’s books. I have a strong and almost tangible image of Egdon Heath, the untameable space in which the tragic story of Eustacia Vye and Clym Yeobright plays out.

Half of A Yellow Sun

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi
I came to this with very little understanding of Nigerian history.  Adichi is a fantastic storyteller, the three main characters are beautifully drawn and her depiction of the violence and suffering in the Biafran civil war is sobering. 

All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr
Intense yet beautifully written Pulitzer Prize winning historical novel about war and free will through the story of two teenagers (a French girl who is blind and a German boy) on either side of World War Two and how their worlds collide. 

The History of Love

Nicole Krauss
I have read this book so many times. It is both funny and sad. It is a thriller and a Holocaust memoir and a romantic novel all rolled into one. I love that Krauss dedicates it to her grandparents ‘who taught me the opposite of disappearing’.

Recognition

Emma-Jane is ranked by Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 for private wealth and charity work. She is also recognised by Best Lawyers, Who’s Who Legal and the Private Client Global Elite.