Jane Halton joins Clarke Willmott (from Gateley) as Private Client Partner

Clarke Willmott has recruited Jane Halton as a Partner in the Private Client Team. She joins from Gateley LLP in Birmingham, where she worked in the Private Client Team for the last 14 years.

Jane specialises in wills, trusts, estate planning, estate administrations and powers of attorney. She also deals with the creation and administration of trusts, as well as dealing with the winding up of complex and taxable estates.

Experience:

• Working with Accountants and Financial Advisors to produce Estate Planning Solutions for those clientswho have sold businesses and related generational planning.
• Deputyship applications and addressing the need for a statutory will.
• The Administration of estates subject to Inheritance Tax using Deeds of Variation where appropriate.

Jane will be working alongside Anthony Fairweather, Liz Smithers and Carol Cummins who are supported by a further 13 lawyers, paralegals and administrative assistants.

Anthony Fairweather, Partner and Managing Director of the Private Client team, said: “I am delighted that Jane has joined us to further strengthen our presence in the Bristol market where our client focused clear thinking approach has led to a 65% growth in turnover in the last three years making us one of the largest Private Client teams in the area”.