Hugh specialises in tax disputes and investigations. His clients include internationally mobile high net worth clients and other private individuals, family businesses, trustees, entrepreneurs and corporates, both small and large. His practice covers the full range of UK taxes, both direct and indirect; including income tax, CGT, inheritance tax, SDLT, corporation tax and VAT.

Hugh has experience of litigating tax cases at all levels, from the specialist tax tribunals through to the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court. A significant element of Hugh’s practice involves remedying unsuccessful planning (often involving complex trust arrangements), including by way of claims for mistake and rectification in both the UK and offshore jurisdictions. He also acts on tax-related professional negligence disputes and other trust and commercial disputes with a tax angle.

Hugh has been recognised as a 'Rising Leader' in Legal Week’s Private Client Global Elite 2022.

Emily provides international private wealth and tax advice to families and trustees of family trusts on a variety of issues. Her areas of expertise include establishing wealth preservation structures such as offshore trusts, foundations and companies, family governance and business succession planning, the reporting of beneficial ownership under the various global initiatives and structuring the acquisition and ownership of UK residential property.

Emily also works closely with families on their philanthropic objectives, including advising on establishment, administration and governance of UK charities and other not-for-profit organisations, as well as advising on charity and UK tax implications of proposed donations and helping to set, monitor and implement philanthropic initiatives.

Much of Emily's work has a cross border element and she has a particular focus on the Middle East, often advising on the use of local structures to hold regional assets, alongside any international structures.

Frederick is a partner at London private client law firm Payne Hicks Beach. He advises a broad range of UK and international clients on personal tax and trust issues. His practice is focused on advising entrepreneurial, business families on long term structuring and succession planning (often through the use of trusts). A number of Frederick’s clients are UK resident non-domiciliaries, who he advises on UK tax, residence and asset structuring (including ‘pre-arrival planning’). Frederick’s offshore work has a particular focus on Scandinavia but he also advises clients from a number of other jurisdictions most notably those with a US connection. Consequently Frederick is used to working with advisors in multiple jurisdictions to coordinate consolidated advice for clients with international connections.

Helen is a Partner in the Joseph Hage Aaronson contentious tax team specialising in UK and international tax disputes. She is a Solicitor and Chartered Tax Adviser, a member of the Society of Tax and Estate Practitioners and is a CEDR accredited mediator. She has recently been included in the City Wealth Leaders List Top 100 Private Client lawyers, is included in the Private Client Global Elite Directory 2023 and appears the Tatler Address Book 2023. Helen writes prolifically for numerous tax publications and is an active committee member at the Chartered Institute of Tax and the Worshipful Company of Tax Advisers.

Helen advises both individuals and corporates either engaged directly or as a consultant to an extensive network of professional firms and financial institutions who repeatedly call upon her expertise.

Helen has successfully run numerous residence and domicile cases but will also turn her hand to a wide variety of contentious and advisory tax matters. Helen is an industry leading specialist at running highly technical COP9 investigations where she has a proven track record of successfully negotiating very favourable settlements.