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Permission to Visit - Goldilocks and the Three Bank Statements
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Charles Richardson recently took part in '60-seconds with...' for the ThoughtLeaders4 Private Client Magazine (November 2022 Edition).
What do you like most about your job?
Having the chance to work with so many interesting and high achieving people, and being trusted by them to play a key role in their most personal and important affairs.
What would you be doing if you weren’t in this profession?
An English wine-maker.
What’s the strangest, most exciting thing you have done in your career?
As a landed estates lawyer with a curious mindset it is always fascinating to see where client visits will take you. ‘Getting to know your client’ time has included visits to some of the oldest topiary gardens in Europe, site visits in national parks, lunch in historic halls surrounded by priceless paintings, and even sampling the produce at an English vineyard and gin distillery.
What is one of your greatest work-related achievements?
Becoming a partner at 6 yrs PQE.
What has been the most interesting case you have seen in 2022?
I prepared a Will for an English artist whose wife is Japanese. It was interesting to work with a lawyer in Tokyo and to find common ground through our working practices. The work also required solutions to significant mismatches in the UK and Japan tax codes. The revisions woven into the UK Will were lauded by independent Japanese experts and, apparently, introduced an entirely new strategy for Japanese estate planning.
What do you see as the most significant trend in your practice in a year’s time?
A recent trend has been to see greater engagement of younger people with private client legal affairs. They seem increasingly knowledgeable and engaged with their legal needs, and understand the importance of having their affairs in good shape. While uncertainties remain in the world I can see this trend continuing. It’s fantastic to work with next-generation clients to understand their needs better and the challenges they may face, as well as how we as legal advisors can help them.
What personality trait do you most attribute to your success?
Being cool, calm and collected!
Who has been your biggest role model in the industry?
Alexandra Sarkis - former partner and head of private client at Hunters Law LLP. I admire her for her legal brain, but also her ability to manage numerous fantastic and demanding clients simultaneously over a long period of time.
What is something you think everyone should do at least once in their lives?
Cryotherapy. It’s great.
You’ve been granted a one-way ticket to another country of your choice. Where are you going and why?
Italy - it isn’t too far away and it has all the variety that a private client lawyer likes.
What is a book you think everyone should read and why?
The Maddaddam Trilogy Series by Margaret Atwood. She described the books as speculative fiction when she wrote them fifteen or so years ago, but the stories now feel eerily real.
Reflecting on 2022, what three words would you use to sum up the year?
Hot; challenging; eventful.
This article was first published in TL4 Private Client Magazine (November 2022). You can read the full magazine here.
FURTHER INFORMATION
For more information on the issues raised in this blog, please contact Charles Richardson or a member of our Private Client team.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Charles Richardson is a Partner in Kingsley Napley's Private Client group and leads the firm's Landed Estates practice. Charles joined Kingsley Napley in 2022 from Hunters Law LLP, where he began his career and became partner in 2018. He has a well-established general Private Client practice, advising individuals, families, trustees and executors, with an emphasis on complex lifetime tax and succession planning, often with an international element.
This article was first published in Solicitors Journal on 17 November 2022. You can view the original article here.
FURTHER INFORMATION
For more information on the issues raised in this blog, please contact Charles Richardson or a member of our Private Client team.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Charles Richardson is a Partner in Kingsley Napley's Private Client group and leads the firm's Landed Estates practice. Charles joined Kingsley Napley in 2022 from Hunters Law LLP, where he began his career and became partner in 2018. He has a well-established general Private Client practice, advising individuals, families, trustees and executors, with an emphasis on complex lifetime tax and succession planning, often with an international element.
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