Charlotte Evans-Tipping

Partner, Private Client

Charlotte is a Partner in Forsters LLP's Private Client team. She advises high net worth international individuals, families, trustees, beneficiaries, family offices and private banks on estate and succession planning, trust law and personal taxation.

Her work focuses on the creation of wealth structures that are bespoke to the international individuals and families that she works with. This involves the creation and structuring of trusts, family governance, succession planning, residence, domicile and general UK tax planning work. Charlotte has particular expertise in advising clients from the Middle East in this field.

Charlotte also has experience in wealth protection, risk analysis and defensive structuring. This work includes undertaking reviews of existing structures in order to identify weaknesses that would render them vulnerable to attack by third parties, regulatory authorities or other family members.

Finally, Charlotte has experience advising on contentious trust matters, both onshore and offshore, including issues relating to the validity of trusts, claims for removal of trustees, investment disputes, division of trust assets and applications to the court for directions. She acts for settlors, trustees and beneficiaries.

Charlotte was promoted to Partner in April 2023.

Charlotte is a ranked lawyer in the 2023 edition of The Legal 500.

Charlotte qualified as a Solicitor in September 2012 at Lawrence Graham LLP (now Gowling WLG) and joined Forsters with the rest of the Gowling WLG London Private Client team in May 2017.

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