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Clarke Willmott

Contact:
Address: 1 Georges Square Bath Street  
Town: Bristol 
Postcode: BS1 6BA 
Phone: 0843 0051 330 
Web: http://www.clarkewillmott.com 
Fax: (0845) 209 2002 
DX: 78247 Bristol 1 
Areas of law: Accidents / Bankruptcy / Building and Construction / Commercial Property / Compensation Claims / Corporate / Corporate Finance / Divorce / Elderly Clients / Employment / Insolvency and Business Recovery / Pensions / Property / Sports Law 
Profile: Clarke Willmott LLP is a national law firm. Operating throughout the country from offices in London, Birmingham, Bristol, Taunton and Southampton, the firm covers a wide range of legal services for businesses, banks and private clients.

The firm's roots are in the south west of England and go back as far as 1898, when Charles Peard Clarke established the firm in Somerset. Since then the firm has progressed in leaps and bounds having doubled in size and turnover in the space of 4 years.

Clarke Willmott has invested heavily in building expertise in existing practice areas, which is fuelled by its sector approach, including: real estate & construction, retail, international, sport, agriculture, renewable energy and private client.

Clarke Willmott has taken the lead on several specialist legal industry areas such as personal Islamic finance, elderly care law, international divorce, agricultural law, catastrophic injury, employment, renewable energy and sports law.

Most recently the firm has forged very strong links with firms in both China and India and has embarked upon several exchange visits as it continues to enhance far eastern business relationships with the UK business community.

The firms expansion has seen it described as "the most ambitious of the next generation of national firms". Clarke Willmott is not led by any particular service, but client led, a strategic resolve which has paid off handsomely with a strong reputation in its core sectors. 
Other Offices: Birmingham, Southampton & Taunton  
No. of fee earners: 137 

Solicitors

Anthony Fairweather
Anthony Fairweather (Ptnr)
Professional Profile
Anthony was called to the Bar in 1994 before joining Clarke Willmott in 1997. Anthony is a full member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners as well as Solicitors for the Elderly. He is also a member of the Law Society Clinical and Mediation panels.
Legal 500 2010 states that he 'knows his subject inside out'.
Anthony advises on lifetime tax planning. He has considerable experience dealing with the law surrounding mental capacity and elderly care. He recently represented the mother in the Baby RB "right to life" case.
Anthony regularly represents families bringing NHS Continuing Care appeals.
Elizabeth Smithers
Elizabeth Smithers (Ptnr)
Professional Profile
Liz has particular expertise in probate, trusts and capital tax planning in particular ensuring wills are tax effective. Inheritance tax is always a major concern but capital gains tax and income tax are all taken into account as well as other forms of depreciation. Asset protection is an increasing concern particularly the effects of divorce, bankruptcy, nursing home fees and the protection of children's inheritance.
Liz also advises on the use of the immediate inheritance tax exemptions, capital gains tax implications of gifts and setting up tax efficient appropriate trusts for lifetime gifts plus the use of pension death benefit trusts. She deals with the administration of a growing number of estates and also oversees the ongoing management of trusts and has developed a specialism in the creation and administration of trusts for personal injury awards.
Gareth Schofield
Gareth Schofield (Ptnr)
Professional Profile
Gareth is head of the Clarke Willmott LLP family team which was described in Legal 500 (2009) as "among the best in the country", and is a matrimonial specialist focusing solely in privately funded ancillary relief matters and complex cohabitation/unmarried family disputes, in which he is an accredited Resolution specialist.
He is acknowledged as a leader in his field in Chambers directory (2009) who describe him as "able to get to the heart of a matter and quickly sort it out", and Legal 500 (2009) who describe him as "brilliant". Gareth is editor of Family Law's Debt and Insolvency (3rd Edition to be published late 2009) on family breakdown and has a particular interest in insolvency on matrimonial breakdown, a subject on which he also lectures. He is a former chair of Bristol Resolution and a member of Resolution's national training committee.