Elizabeth Neale

PARTNER
Liz is a partner in the Private Client team, specialising in tax, probate, trusts and estate planning for UK families and non-UK domiciliaries.

She acts for a wide range of clients, including those with inherited wealth, city professionals and lottery winners, and has a particular interest in complex probates, especially those with an international dimension. Liz has developed particular expertise in structuring trusts for the long-term management of death in service benefits and the related inheritance tax issues, and regularly advises on the tax and trust aspects of trust and estate disputes.

Liz acts as trustee of a variety of trusts, including landed estates, bringing both technical expertise and practical experience of stewardship to her advice to trustees and families managing wealth across generations.

Throughout her career, Liz has enjoyed helping individuals and families navigate significant decisions around succession, wealth preservation and long-term planning. Building trusted relationships and supporting clients through changing circumstances is one of the most rewarding aspects of private client work for her.

She joined Edwin Coe in 2026.

 

Expertise
Private Client Estate Planning Trusts Wills Probate and Estate Administration
Credentials
Eprivateclient Most Influential 2017
Member of the Law Society Private Client Section
Member of PAIAM (Professional Advisers to the International Art Market)
Advising on Will planning for a couple where one party was at risk of insolvency, and subsequently advising the appointed executors on their position and whether to accept appointment where litigation was ongoing.
Advising the English family of the playwright Anthony Shaffer in Shaffer v Cilento and Others [2004] EWCA Civ 631, a leading case on domicile.
Advising on the restructuring of a group of trusts owning a landed estate, to consolidate land ownership within one branch of the family while making appropriate provision for other family members.
Administering two connected Anglo/Swiss/Turkish estates where the English Wills were disputed by the Turkish family.
Negotiating a settlement with HMRC of the inheritance tax liabilities on an offshore trust receiving significant royalties from an internationally successful stage show.