Nigel advises UK-based and international clients on tax and trust planning; landed estates; farming families; trust restructuring; complex estate administrations where he also acts as an independent administrator and judicial trustee; literary estates; heritage property and charity issues.
He is a trustee of many private trusts and is Clerk to the Trustees of a substantial local Charity.
Nigel trained at Lightfoots and qualified in 1989. He joined Morrell, Peel & Gamlen in 1990 and became a partner there, then moved to Boodle Hatfield where he was also a partner. He joined Henmans as a partner in 2003.
He is a member of the Charity Law Association, the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners; the Law Society's group for Lawyers for Persons with a Learning Disability; the Land Trusts Association and the Law Society Probate Section. Nigel lectures widely on tax and trust matters.
The Legal 500 Legal Experts directory ranks Nigel among its top experts for private client work outside London. Nigel also acts as a Judicial Trustee and independent administrator in cases that are in dispute. Nigel speaks German.