Jim Aveline
Partner and head of the firm's Private Client Services department. Specialises in tax and estate planning for both UK and offshore clients. This includes advising landed estates and diversified farm businesses on their various tax, trust and agricultural issues. He also has a particular focus on succession planning and structuring for family business owners and heads up Burges Salmon’s Family Business team. His international work includes advising resident and non-resident clients on their global trust and wealth structuring and advising on structures to pass their wealth on to the next generation. Recent examples of work include: advising an international family with £300m+ assets on their offshore structures, innovative partnership and trust structuring to claim CGT relief on a record breaking agricultural land sale; advising the trustees of a significant landed estate following the death of its main heir; drafting and advising on a Family Charter to set out the principles of how control and ownership will pass in a large diversified family business to give certainty to the next generation. Winner of STEP President’s prize for best thesis on international issues. · Burges Salmon LLP
About
Partner and head of the firm's Private Client Services department at Burges Salmon LLP, specialising in tax and estate planning for UK and offshore clients with extensive experience advising landed estates, diversified farm businesses and family business succession. Advises resident and non‑resident clients on global trust and wealth structuring and has acted on matters including offshore structuring for high‑net‑worth families and CGT relief structuring for agricultural land sales; trained at Burges Salmon, qualified 2004 and made partner 2012.
Practice areas
Office
Expertise
Education
- Nottingham High School, Nottingham
- Bristol University — Euro LLB (1995)
- University of the West of England, Bristol — LPC (2003, Distinction)
Admissions
- Qualified 2004