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Annabel Spearman

Associate

Farrer & Co | Annabel Spearman, Associate

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Practice areas

  • Private Client Services

Annabel advises high net worth domestic and international individuals, trustees, and family offices on complex trusts, personal tax and succession planning.

Annabel is an Associate in the Farrer & Co Private Client team.

Annabel advises on trust structuring, tax and estate planning, often with an international dimension. She has particular expertise in advising trustees of landed estates, and multi-generational families with inherited wealth. She specialises in trust and will drafting, including cross border succession planning.    

Annabel advises clients with calm, good nature and focus. She is a well-respected and trusted adviser, working regularly with senior professionals from other organisations as well as with colleagues across the firm to produce holistic solutions to legal problems.

In 2018, Annabel was named one of ePrivateclient’s Top 35 private client professionals aged under 35.

Expertise

Trustees

Annabel advises trustees and settlors on all aspects of trust law including the creation, use and variation of trusts. She also has experience advising trust beneficiaries. Annabel provides ongoing advice on complex and unusual family trusts, in particular in relation to governance, trustees' duties and protection of wealth for future generations. Annabel has assisted with successful court applications including to modernise trustee powers and to rectify trust deeds.

Private Wealth

Annabel advises international and UK individuals on personal succession planning and wealth structuring. A recent highlight was advising a non-UK domiciled high net worth individual including considering the impact of the European Succession Regulation, forced heirship rules and matrimonial property regimes on different types of assets in different jurisdictions.

Family Offices

Annabel works collaboratively with family offices for clients with personal and business interests in the UK and internationally. She has recently worked closely with a family office to restructure a significant residential property holding.

  • Annabel is a member of AIJA (International Association of Young Lawyers).
    She volunteers as a mentor for charity IntoUniversity.
    Annabel won the ePrivate Client Top 35 under 35 award in 2018.

  • The Chief Executive of a significant landed estate reports: "Annabel has drive, dedication, technical expertise and is able to operate at all levels of a business. She is first class and I view her as a core member of my own team".

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