Andrew Hine – Partner

Andrew Hine

5 New Street Square
London EC4A 3TW
United Kingdom
DX 41 London

Tel. +44 (0) 20 7300 4942
Fax. +44 (0) 20 7300 7100
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Andrew Hine is a partner in the rated Private Client Tax and Incentives group and his practice involves all elements of private client work.  He advises clients, both resident and domiciled in the UK and overseas, on tax matters generally and has extensive experience in advising trustees and beneficiaries on all trust matters, both domestic and offshore, and related issues.  Andrew advises trustees in a wide variety of financial centres: Jersey, Guernsey, Bermuda, Bahamas, Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands and Liechtenstein.

He is experienced in the areas of probate, succession and wills.  He has advised on substantial multi-jurisdictional probates, involving conflict of law issues and on contentious probates and contentious trusts.  He is a member of the Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists, the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners and the Heritage Group of Lawyers.  He has significant experience of acting for both beneficiaries and trustees in multi party trust actions within the consent jurisdiction under both variation of trust applications or agreed compromises both in the UK and offshore jurisdictions.

Andrew is listed as one of the top 15 leading private client solicitors in London by the current edition of Chambers Guide to the UK Legal Profession and is also recommended in the latest edition of the Legal 500.  He has been commended over the years in Chambers:

  "conscientious, clever, and good at working through effective solutions."

  "an absolutely first-class intellect, and to be easy-going and affable." 

  "if you want a sensitive lawyer, then he’s your man"

  "if I were a high net worth individual I would entrust my estate to him"

  "very good at guiding people through complex and difficult issues"

  "technical specialist"

  "honourable and user friendly"

   "commercially minded and very easy to work with"

   "with his excellent legal brain he has a panache for even the most difficult work"

Andrew graduated from Bristol University in 1986.  He trained at Boodle Hatfield and was admitted as a solicitor in 1989.  He has been a partner at Taylor Wessing since 1998.

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