Tess is an Associate in the Private Client team. She advises individuals, families, trustees and family offices on a range of complex UK and international trust, tax and succession planning issues. Tess is involved in the preparation of wills and Lasting Powers of Attorney, probate work, trust structuring, and has particular experience assisting clients in a marital context.
Tess’s practice is a broad one and she regularly advises high profile private collectors, art dealers and cultural institutions as part of the firm’s Art and Cultural Property group.
Tess trained and qualified at Farrer & Co, before joining Payne Hicks Beach in 2024.
She read Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Oxford, obtaining First Class Honours. Tess went on to work at a bank and an auction house before training as a solicitor.