Robert Brodrick

Spear’s Review

A fixture in recent years’ top 10 lists, Robert Brodrick relishes his role as chair of Payne Hicks Beach’s management board. But the high-flying lawyer insists he is still very much client-facing.

With a busy practice advising international HNWs (particularly from the Middle East), Brodrick tells Spear’s that mobility has become ‘so complicated’ that anyone looking to move to or from the UK should seek out ‘careful and considered’ legal advice. Despite these complications, Brodrick insists the UK remains an extremely attractive destination to international HNWs. This, he says, is due to its ‘rule of law, schools and geographic proximity to all the places they want to be’.

Adviser Profile

Robert is Chair and a partner in the firm’s Private Client department. He provides specialist tax, trust and estate planning advice for wealthy individuals, their advisers and trustees. His clients include non-domiciliaries, UK based families, international families with assets in multiple jurisdictions, landed estates owners and business people. He focuses on three main geographic areas: Middle East; US/UK and UK domestic (including UK resident non-doms). Known for his sensitive handling of complicated family situations, he has a reputation for advising high profile US families based in the UK and also Middle Eastern families on the creation/reorganisation of trusts, including Sharia compliant structures.