Paul Whitehead

Senior Partner

PA: Lauren Foster

His ability to translate complex tax matters is unsurpassed.

The Legal 500

Paul Whitehead is the Senior Partner at Maurice Turnor Gardner and a private wealth specialist with more than 30 years’ experience advising on complex tax, trust and succession matters.

He advises UK and international individuals, families and trustees on wealth protection, personal tax, residence and domicile, Wills, estate planning, trusts and offshore structures. His work often involves making technically difficult tax and trust issues clear, practical and manageable for clients and their advisers.

Paul is a former treasurer and chair of the STEP City of London Committee and is a regular speaker on private wealth law, tax and international estate planning, including at events across the UK and internationally.

Expertise

Private Wealth

Paul advises individuals, families and trustees on the creation, use and taxation of trusts and similar structures.

His work includes residence and domicile advice, planning for individuals and families moving to or from the UK, structuring and restructuring family businesses, Wills, lasting powers of attorney and Advance Decisions.

Paul’s practice covers:

Onshore and offshore trusts.
UK personal taxation.
Residence and domicile.
International estate planning.
Family business structuring.
Succession planning and incapacity planning.

Maurice Turnor Gardner are distinguished by their deep understanding of the issues arising in connection with ultra high net worth individuals. They also stand out for their practical advice which is understood by clients, and for keeping to deadlines.

Chambers and Partners (HNW) 2026

Paul Whitehead recommends

Any Human Heart

William Boyd

My favourite author has written so many fantastic books – other favourites of mine are The Blue Afternoon and An Ice Cream War – but this one, diarising the life of a fictitious individual through the 20th Century, is moving and emotional, funny and sad, entertaining and educating. A wonderful book!

The Night Circus

Erin Morgenstern

A quite magical book. Original and tremendously imaginative, I was totally captivated from cover to cover.

Bleak House

Charles Dickens

I could have chosen several Dickens, but this is just about my favourite. Although a rather daunting thousand pages (give or take a few), it is full of wonderful characters, twists, and one of the most famous (or infamous) legal cases in fiction. The BBC television adaption is also worth watching – it was quite brilliant.

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Of the several South American writers I love (with Isabel Allende and Mario Vargas Llosa), this book stands out as an epic family saga, with a bit of magical realism thrown in.

Shantaram

Gregory David Roberts

I believe I was “late to the party” with this one, but it is the most amazing and gripping story (based, loosely, on the author’s own experience) of a bank robber who escapes from jail to live in the slums of Mumbai and then joins the local mafia.

Gulliver’s Travels

Jonathan Swift

To be honest, I was torn between including this and Alice Through The Looking Glass (my favourite “children’s” book), but I went for Gulliver’s Travels, because over the years I keep coming back to it – the sheer inventiveness still feels fresh and relevant – and it was written in 1726!

Recognition

Paul is recommended by Chambers High Net Worth and Legal 500 for private wealth work. He is regularly recognised for his ability to explain complex tax issues clearly and practically.