Company

Farrer & Co

Position

Partner

Index

Tax Lawyers

Legal

Location

London

Advice type

Cross-border litigation

Disputed estates

Family governance

Private banking

Risk

Succession planning

Sector Focus

Accounting

Business and Consumer Services

Legal Advisory Services

Wealth Management & Private Banking

Customer Type

Lawyer

Sarah von Schmidt

Spear’s Review

Sarah von Schmidt of Farrer & Co works with international families and their family offices, advising trustees and beneficiaries on significant trust restructuring and their strategic planning, as well as on family governance and succession matters.

Her UK-based clients include entrepreneurs, family businesses and senior executives, and her work includes succession planning, wealth structuring including establishing trusts and developing philanthropic plans. Von Schmidt also advises the trustees of a number of substantial UK trusts, and has a particular interest in next-generation issues.

The partner leads the firm’s private client group, developing an unusually broad range of expertise in the field.

Adviser Profile

Sarah is head of Private Client. She has a strong reputation for her work on trusts, wills and succession planning, and family constitution and governance issues.

On trust matters, she acts for trustees and beneficiaries, including those involved with onshore and international trusts, and associated with large corporations, landed estates, family offices, wealthy individuals and families.

She supports clients on the issues critical to their long-term interests, including governance and constitutions, succession planning, decision making and investments. She also advises on issues linked to holding and structuring wealth, such as planning, tax, philanthropy, wills and the transfer of wealth between generations.

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Address

66 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3LH

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