Expertise: Capital Tax Planning, Estate Planning, Trusts

Telephone: 01284 717410 (Direct Dial)

Suzanne is dual-qualified as a solicitor and a chartered tax adviser. She is retained directly by individual and corporate clients as well as on a consultancy basis by accountants and other professionals. Her expertise and recent instructions include:

• Capital tax and estate planning for individuals including tax planning through the incorporated and unincorporated business, business and agricultural reliefs, and inheritance tax.

• Acting for shareholders in relation to capital tax reduction strategies prior to selling private companies.

• Inland Revenue special compliance division tax enquiries for executors and individuals where fraud is suspected.

• Tax negligence.

• Variation of trusts and estates.

• Strategic capital tax planning involving family private wealth.

Suzanne has been a partner since 1987.  Chambers & Partners Independent guide to the legal profession rates her as one of the leading tax lawyers in East Anglia, describing her as "approachable, thorough" and "technically very competent".