Company

Macfarlanes

Position

Partner

Index

Tax Lawyers

Legal

Location

London

Advice type

Legal - Tax, wills & trusts

Tax planning

Cross-border

Estate planning

Succession planning

Client Types

Private clients

UHNW

International UHNWs

Sector Focus

Accounting

Business and Consumer Services

Legal Advisory Services

Customer Type

Lawyer

Edward Reed

Spear’s Review

A go-to sage at Macfarlanes for international UHNWs on wills, trusts and personal tax planning, Edward Reed has spent his career dealing with ‘Western European matters’: matters he is well suited to handling, having spent his formative years in France.

Reed owns property there, so his take on continental thinking isn’t the ‘purely academic’ exercise it is for other lawyers. ‘A lot of what a lawyer does... is translating other people’s strange codes into some of form of comprehensible vernacular for the punter,’ he says.

Tax law has acquired a rather ‘fiddly’ language of its own: ‘There’s no chance of the man in the street being able to follow tax provisions, or doing a deal without advice any longer. It’s pretty retrograde.’

Rank: Top Recommended

Top Recommended 2023, Tax Lawyers

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