Ruth McKeown

Senior Associate

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Practice areas

Private Client Services

Ruth helps individuals and families plan for the future and understand their UK tax exposure. She works with individuals and trustees, both based in the UK and abroad, on a wide range of private client matters.

Her expertise includes estate planning and preparing wills, often for clients with international links. She also enjoys helping clients with matters relating to their domicile and residence and provides UK tax advice for offshore trusts and other wealth-holding structures. Ruth has experience in matters relating to mental capacity and probate.

Ruth is committed to promoting diversity and inclusion and is actively involved in the firm’s initiatives in this area. Her experience in cultural dialogue and exchange programmes in Northern Ireland has shaped her approach with clients, enabling her to work collaboratively with a wide range of individuals from different cultural backgrounds and to recognise their key concerns.

Ruth qualified as a solicitor in 2015.

Expertise

Individuals & Families

Ruth’s work for UK and international individuals includes estate planning advice, drafting wills and advice on international succession. Ruth advises on the tax implications of coming to the UK, long-term residence and the taxation of international wealth-holding structures. Ruth's work often touches on complex matters of law, such as recent advice for a family about historic tax issues arising from an attempt to hold UK land by a continental usufruct.

Trustees

Ruth advises lay and professional trustees, settlors and beneficiaries. Her work includes drafting trust documents, problem solving at critical junctures, advising on changes of trustees, restructuring and terminations. Recently she has worked closely with offshore trustees to plan for legal changes affecting non-domiciled individuals.