Heartwood Wealth Management appoint Lesley Britton as Head of Tax Solutions

Lesley has over 18 years’ experience in the industry and joins Heartwood from Deloitte where she spent eight years as a Senior Manager in the company’s private client team. She will be based in the firm's Tunbridge Wells office.

Heartwood provides integrated investment, tax and retirement planning solutions for ultra high net worth individuals from its offices in London and the South East.

Private Client Expert Rupert Ticehurst to join BLP

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has recruited one of the UK’s leading private client experts, Rupert Ticehurst, to its Trusts and Personal Tax team.

Rupert has been a partner at Herbert Smith since 2005 and headed its Private Wealth and Charities practice. He specialises in tax and trusts, particularly legal disputes for families, individuals and charities, with clients based in both the UK and overseas. He is a regular keynote speaker at major industry events and was also voted one of City Wire’s ‘Top 10 Lawyers Wealth Managers Need to Know in 2010’.

Full story at:

http://www.blplaw.com/index.cfm/Press_Releases_Articles/1408/element/88044

Target appoint Rachel Sestini as Head of Private Client, Bath

Rachel joins from Coutts & Co. in London where she was a senior advisor in their Offshore Tax team, managing a portfolio of ultra wealthy non-dom clients. Rachel will lead Target's already significant Private Client offering in the West of England, providing advice on the full range of personal tax issues effecting entrepreneurial HNWIs, as well as developing new client relationships.

Coutts Private Office hires Maeve Colley-Russell

Coutts Private Office has hired Maeve Colley-Russell as Senior Client Partner
With over 20 years' experience, Maeve joins Coutts Private Office from Barclays Wealth and will oversee the affairs of ultra HNWIs with assets exceeding £30m.

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http://www.coutts.com/news-and-insights/press-releases/2011/coutts-private-office-appointment-/?goback=%2Egmp_2301341%2Egde_2301341_member_42065550

Boodle Hatfield hires Penningtons private client star Mark Lindley

Private client law firm Boodle Hatfield has strengthened its award winning contentious private client team with the appointment of solicitor Mark Lindley.

Mark joined the firm on 4 January from Penningtons and specialises in advising clients on contentious matters including disputes between trustees, beneficiaries, challenges to the validity of wills, professional negligence and disputed applications in the Court of Protection. Mark was also named as one the country’s top 35 private client solicitors under the age of 35 by Private Client Practitioner magazine in 2010.

http://www.boodlehatfield.com/default.asp?sID=1296149259622&goback=%2Egmp_2301341%2Egde_2301341_member_41850254

Aussie Flood Tax

Australian's earning more than 50,000 Aus Dollars face a new flood tax aimed at helping to pay for the recent devastation.
The new tax will charge an extra 0.5% on those earning A$50,000-A$100,000 and 1% more on those earning more than A$100,000.

It is expected to raise about A$1.8bn.

See:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12294834?goback=%252Egmp_2301341%252Egde_2301341_member_41678322