At Birchall Blackburn Law we build strong personal relationships with business and individual clients to ensure the advice we provide is tailored to their individual needs. We are happy to work with your accountant or financial adviser to find a cost-effective, seamless solution.

Our trust team, recognised as one of the most highly respected in the North West, is led by Kristina Smith. Kristina regularly addresses seminars on wills and inheritance tax for business organisations, MENCAP, private individuals, entertainers and the medical profession.

As part of our Trusts, Tax and Estate Planning service, our specialist team will offer practical advice on:

• Inheritance tax and capital gains tax planning
• Trust and tax planning for individuals and businesses
• Creation of Interest in Possession Trusts and Discretionary Trusts
• Winding up of Trusts
• Tax treatment of trusts
• Trusts for vulnerable beneficiaries
• Protection of pension and life policy lump sum death benefits
• Preserving business property relief and agricultural property relief
• Succession planning for individuals and businesses
• Asset preservation
• Post-death arrangements/deeds of variation

We are proud to be members of the Law Society’s Wills & Inheritance Quality Scheme (WIQS), a prestigious mark of high quality which requires us to provide enhanced standards of expertise, client care and service. Some individual people in our team also have additional specialist qualifications as members of respected professional bodies such as: the Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners (STEP), The Association of Lifetime Lawyers (ALL) and the Law Society’s Private Client Section.