“Emma Heelis-Adams in particular is incredible and very technically knowledgeable and her advice is incredibly easy to read.”
Legal 500 UK, 2025
About
Emma is a partner in the firm’s Private Client team, specialising in providing estate planning and UK tax advice to high net worth and ultra-high net worth clients and their associated entities.
She advises a broad range of individuals, including those who are originally from the UK, those who have moved to the UK from abroad and non-UK residents. Her advice covers personal taxation and succession planning, including drafting Wills to cover assets in multiple jurisdictions and the use of corporate, trust and partnership structures. Emma has extensive experience of advising on the UK tax implications of the ownership of UK real estate.
Emma’s clients are from a wide range of backgrounds, including business owners, those who have exited successful businesses and those who have inherited wealth. She also acts for a range of financial institutions and trust companies, in particular advising corporate trustees who administer non-UK resident trusts with a UK connection, such as UK resident beneficiaries or UK assets.
She regularly speaks at conferences and seminars both in the UK and overseas.
Experience
- Jersey trust owning UK landed estate: Advising on a significant restructuring of the corporate entities owning a UK landed estate to simplify the ownership structure and make fit-for-purpose for future generations.
- UK estate beneficiaries: Advising the beneficiaries of an estate on the implications of the sale of the estate’s major asset, with the sale one of the largest ever in its asset class.
- UK resident ‘non doms’: Advising numerous UK resident non-UK domiciled individuals and their related entities on the incoming abolition of the ‘non-dom’ regime.
- UAE resident: Providing advice on the UK tax implications associated with creating a Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Foundation, where one branch of the family is UK resident.
- UK private trust company: Ongoing advice to a UK PTC on its trusteeship of numerous family trusts and related entities, including a full structure review and simplification process.
Credentials
- Admitted as a solicitor: England & Wales (2009)
- Trust & Estate Practitioner (Member of Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners (2013)
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Death and Taxes S4:E4 – Autumn Budget 2024: Implications for non-doms and international individuals
29 November 2024
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