Lucy Gordon

Lucy is a Director and dedicated Private Client lawyer with over 30 years’ experience, advising clients on how to navigate the complexities of family wealth. She works with landowners, farmers, families, trustees and family offices on all aspects of estate planning including wills, trusts, lasting powers of attorney and family governance.

Lucy regularly advises on the administration of larger complex family estates and acts as both solicitor and trustee for clients.  She has particular expertise in wealth preservation, tax and succession planning. As a trust specialist, Lucy has extensive experience in establishing, managing and sitting on trusts, guiding trustees through their legal duties and tax considerations.

Clients value her personable and collaborative style and is known for advice that is practicable and pragmatic. She is often called upon to help families resolve situations where legal crises have arisen as a result of deteriorating mental or physical health.

Her experience extends to supporting entrepreneurial and multi-generational private business-owning clients, as well as individuals from the fields of music, entertainment, literature and art. She works closely with other professionals including private bankers, investment managers and accountants.

Lucy ensures her clients receive the highest standard legal advice, blending knowledge across SE-Solicitors to resolve challenges requiring property, corporate, family, disputes and other expertise, or drawing on her network of trusted professional advisers.

A graduate of the University of Cambridge and the College of Law, she spent 10 years practising in London before joining SE-Solicitors, where she became a partner in 2011. She is Chairman of SE-Solicitors and is Head of the firm’s growing Private Client Department.