Philip Harrison joined Wilkes in September 2019 as a Consultant in the Private Client Team. A solicitor of over thirty years’ experience and well-known in the West Midlands and beyond, he works out of both the City and Solihull offices.
Philip advises business owners and high net worth individuals on estate planning, involving the protection of family wealth as well as inheritance tax mitigation. He helps his clients to devise a comprehensive estate planning strategy with the aim of taking maximum advantage of available tax reliefs, especially for business or agricultural assets. He also manages the implementation of his clients’ estate planning strategies, which might involve direct gifts to children or grandchildren or the creation of family trusts or family investment companies. The strategies invariably also involve making sophisticated and tax-efficient wills. Estate planning has become much more complex in recent years due to tax changes and also due to the increased frequency of successive marriages and families.