Promotions from Senior Associate to Legal Director:

• Greg Horsford, Corporate
• Barry McGouran, Restructuring & Insolvency
• Fred Sheppard, Commercial Disputes & Class Actions

Promotions from Associate to Senior Associate:

• Henry Wright, Corporate
• Jessica Brittain, Private Client
• Bradley Gabriel, (Senior Tax Manager) Tax

Promotions from Solicitor to Associate:

• Lauren Barlow, Intellectual Property
• Harry Collins, Restructuring & Insolvency
• Hallam Lewis, Insurance Disputes
• Hannah Simpson, Intellectual Property
• Eva Wichtowski, Financial Regulation
• Madeleine Thomas, Corporate
• Stella Seimeni, Corporate
• Eloise Lloyd, Corporate
• Zoe Deckker, Construction
• Anil Gill Property, Disputes

The firm has been recognised in the following categories:

• Best International Tax Team
• Best Private Client Tax Practice
• Best Tax Disputes/Investigations team

Edwin Coe’s Tax team is a dedicated and market-leading team of tax specialists and lawyers with many years of experience advising clients both in the UK and overseas.

These highly prestigious awards celebrate the outstanding achievements across the whole of the tax profession, including professional practices of all sizes, specialist firms, and those working in-house or in the public sector, and are judged by a panel of leading figures from the tax profession, and beyond.  The winners will be announced at an awards ceremony and dinner on Thursday 14^th May 2026 at the Hilton Park Lane.

You can read more about the Awards and see the full 2026 shortlists here.

For years the issue of taxpayer flight has been framed as an international wealth issue, but today a growing number of entrepreneurs and investors, most in their prime wealth creation years, are leaving the UK to build businesses elsewhere. Increasingly, it is founders and investors who are scaling businesses that are actively considering a UK exit. It is domestic wealth that is at jeopardy. When people at that stage begin to look elsewhere, it points to something more structural than a narrow financial calculation and carries real implications for entrepreneurship and innovation.

Tax still features in decision-making, but it rarely stands alone as the driving force. What comes through more clearly is a sense that building in the UK has become harder to navigate, with less predictability and a tone that feels more cautious than ambitious. Remote working has made that shift more tangible, reducing the friction associated with relocating and making it easier to operate across jurisdictions. Once location becomes flexible, founders begin to weigh where momentum feels strongest rather than where they are tied.

Conversations with those exploring their options suggest this is not a reaction to a single policy change, but a gradual accumulation of signals shaping how the UK is perceived. Confidence and perception play a significant role, particularly for founders making long-term bets about where to anchor their businesses. The technical strengths of a market matter, but so does the story it tells about itself, and this is where the UK is losing ground.

To read the full article, visit the City A.M website here.

Joanne McIvor was featured in The Times on Saturday, speaking about being a Partner, in light of the Chancellor’s plans to add national insurance to the tax bills of limited liability partnerships in November’s Budget.

From the moment Joanne McIvor become a partner at Edwin Coe, she felt a sense of duty towards the 110-year-old law firm. “You feel you’re a custodian of something, which is quite a responsibility,” she said.

For ambitious white-collar professionals across Britain, being made a partner — whether in law, accounting or consulting — is still seen as the benchmark of success. Getting there is no small feat. In some cases, especially in larger businesses, it can require waging a draining, Machiavellian campaign with no guarantee of victory…

…LLPs are in the line of fire even though they were not specifically designed for tax purposes, but to try to take some of the risk out of going into business. Their members are in effect sole traders who have clubbed together. Those who understand how they operate argue that they cannot be compared to companies as their members have paid up to join the LLP, often by borrowing money to participate. “Our capital is at risk at the end of the day and we are reinvesting it into the business,” said McIvor at Edwin Coe…

You can read the full article on The Times’ website (subscription required)