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Sophie Mazzier has more than 30 years’ experience in Private Wealth advice and provides both technical and practical professional legal support to the firm.
Sophie’s technical legal and practical support is a valuable resource for the fee-earning staff. She is an excellent communicator and fulfils the Private Wealth team’s know how and training needs. She monitors legal developments and is involved in producing articles and guides and delivering training on technical legal issues for the team and for clients.
Sophie has extensive experience of assisting those advising high net worth individuals on the full spectrum of non-contentious private client issues, including cross-border tax and succession planning issues particularly those with a philanthropic or charity element.
Sophie has contributed chapters to The Global Guide to Trusts, Tolley’s Trust Drafting, the Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedent and regularly contributes to articles published in the private wealth industry professional journals and for Spear’s Wealth Management Magazine.
In addition Sophie is involved in trainee recruitment and the development and training of trainees and junior solicitors as well as sharing her expertise and experience with lawyers at all levels.
She is a qualified solicitor (October 1991), a member of STEP and became a professional support lawyer in 2000.
The Private Wealth team at Maurice Turnor Gardner provides entrepreneurs, wealthy families and family offices (from both the UK and the rest of the world) with advice on their estate and succession planning.
In addition to drafting Wills and lasting powers of attorney and providing advice on personal taxation matters, we specialise in the establishment of structures (including trusts, foundations, companies and various forms of partnership) for the protection and preservation of assets ranging from privately owned companies to racehorses, works of art and heritage property to yachts and planes (as well as real estate).
Articles by Sophie
Lifetime tax planning (2024-25)
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“Good Deeds” – Do’s and Don’ts….
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Charities Act 2022: Changes to the disposal of land by charity trustees
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Tell me something I don’t already know…… Budget 2023
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France to require residential property owners to declare title and occupancy status
