The Benefits Of Lifetime Giving An expert guide to tax-efficient charitable giving
At Collyer Bristow, we help individuals, families, and trustees plan strategically to maximise the impact of their charitable giving while preserving and protecting wealth. Charitable donations, whether made during your lifetime or through your Will, can provide significant opportunities to reduce tax liabilities and create a lasting legacy.
Our latest guide, The Benefits of Lifetime Giving, explores the full range of options available and illustrates how to integrate charitable donations into a broader estate planning strategy.
Published 9 September 2025
TAX & ESTATE PLANNING & UK TRUSTS, TAX AND ESTATE PLANNING
Future of Work: Employment and Immigration Update Seminar Slides
These slides summarise key insights from The Future of Work: A New Era – Employment and Immigration Seminar. They highlight the most significant upcoming changes in UK employment and immigration law, including the Employment Rights Bill, hybrid working practices, AI in the workplace, and Skilled Worker visa reforms. Designed for employers and HR professionals, the slides provide practical guidance on preparing for these developments, helping organisations stay compliant and strategically ready for the evolving workplace landscape.
Published 7 November 2025
EMPLOYMENT LAW FOR EMPLOYEES & EMPLOYMENT LAW FOR EMPLOYERS & IMMIGRATION
FIG Regime and more: The Reforms to Personal Taxation for UK Resident Foreign Individuals What the new rules mean for UK resident foreign taxpayers
From 6 April 2025, UK tax for foreign residents is based solely on tax residence, not domicile. The simplified system affects income, capital gains, and inheritance tax, offering some residents up to four years to shelter non-UK income and gains.
Published 2 October 2025
PRIVATE WEALTH & TAX & ESTATE PLANNING & TRUST & ESTATES DISPUTES & UK TRUSTS, TAX AND ESTATE PLANNING
The Benefits Of Lifetime Giving An expert guide to tax-efficient charitable giving
At Collyer Bristow, we help individuals, families, and trustees plan strategically to maximise the impact of their charitable giving while preserving and protecting wealth. Charitable donations, whether made during your lifetime or through your Will, can provide significant opportunities to reduce tax liabilities and create a lasting legacy.
Our latest guide, The Benefits of Lifetime Giving, explores the full range of options available and illustrates how to integrate charitable donations into a broader estate planning strategy.
Published 9 September 2025
TAX & ESTATE PLANNING & UK TRUSTS, TAX AND ESTATE PLANNING
A Basic Overview of the Property Buying process in England and Wales
Navigating the legal and procedural aspects of buying property can be complex – particularly if you’re unfamiliar with the process. Our downloadable guide, A Basic Overview of the Property Buying process in England and Wales, offers a clear and practical overview of the key stages involved in residential property transactions in England and Wales.
Employment Rights Bill: Emerging Trends & Considerations
At our recent HR Conversations roundtable, we explored the key changes proposed under the Employment Rights Bill and their potential impact on employers and HR teams.
This summary outlines the current legal position, anticipated reforms, and practical steps organisations can take to prepare. Topics covered include:
Topics covered include:
The new day-one right not to be unfairly dismissed
The future of fire and rehire practices
Evolving responsibilities around DEI and workplace culture
Flexible working requests and hybrid work models
The increasing role of AI in the workplace
Download the full summary below for insights and actionable recommendations from our Employment Law team.
Published 20 May 2025
EMPLOYMENT LAW FOR EMPLOYEES & EMPLOYMENT LAW FOR EMPLOYERS
An overview of our range of commercial litigation services, supporting businesses operating in a vast range of industries in the resolution of a full range of commercial disputes.
Establishing a business presence in the UK can be a transformative step for an overseas company. This guide explores the key differences between setting up a subsidiary or registering a branch, helping you navigate critical considerations like liability, financial reporting, and setup processes. Whether you’re looking to test the UK market or plan a long-term investment, this guide provides clarity on the most suitable structure for your needs.
The proactive duty to prevent sexual harassment: What do employers need to know?
From 26 October 2024, employers will have a new legal obligation to “take reasonable steps” to prevent sexual harassment. Here we explain how the law is changing, sanctions for non-compliance and what you can be doing now to prepare for the new duty in the run-up to October and beyond.
Published 12 September 2024
EMPLOYMENT LAW FOR EMPLOYEES & EMPLOYMENT LAW FOR EMPLOYERS
Creating new share classes can be a useful way of attracting new participants, allowing a company to offer shares that are particularly focussed towards their desired investors. Whether you are considering re-organising the ownership of your business or are keen to understand the most suitable structure for a planned investment, this guide can help you with some common questions in relation to share classes.
Discover our new series of Corporate Know-How guides.
Corporate Know-How Guides: Getting a Business Ready for Sale
Prior to approaching the market or agreeing terms with a prospective buyer, undertaking adequate preparations for sale can contribute to a smoother transaction for all parties. In this guide, we look at some key questions to consider in respect of the readiness of a business for a potential sale.
Discover our new series of Corporate Know-How guides.
Put simply, a share buyback is where a company purchases its own shares from an existing shareholder. In this guide, we will look at some key aspects of share buybacks in relation to private limited companies incorporated in England & Wales.
Discover our new series of Corporate Know-How guides.
In this guide we will look at heads of terms as they relate to the sale of a business or assets in England & Wales. Whether identified as “heads of terms”, a “letter of intent” or “heads of agreement”, these documents summarise the key terms of a proposed transaction.
Discover our new series of Corporate Know-How guides.
Whether you are a minority shareholder concerned about what influence you can exert over a company’s affairs, or a founding shareholder, considering the amount of equity you would be prepared to sell to investors without losing control – this guide is here to help you understand what shareholders can do and when.
Discover our new series of Corporate Know-How guides.
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion at Collyer Bristow – 2023 report
We have an increasingly diverse workforce and we are committed to furthering our inclusive and supportive culture, in line with our Values as a firm. This report summarises our diversity statistics for 2023 and is a full representation of our firm in relation to age, however, the other categories are based on responses received.
Hague Convention letters of request are an effective and common tool used by US litigants to obtain evidence and documents from potential witnesses in the UK where the witnesses are unwilling to give evidence voluntarily for US proceedings.
Discover our new series of practical know-how guides for those involved in commercial disputes.
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CB Checkpoint: Optimising your key business documentation, policies & procedures.
There are a number of key policies, procedures and documents your business should keep up to date, to be both legally protected and in preparation for investment or exit.
Collyer Bristow’s ‘CB Checkpoint’ team will give your business a full check-over, reviewing your key documentation and advising on any changes that are suggested or required. We will deliver a full report of our findings and offer support, should you need it, to ensure legal protection for your business, its assets, and ultimately its reputation.
CB Checkpoint: Optimising your key business documentation, policies & procedures.
There are a number of key policies, procedures and documents your business should keep up to date, to be both legally protected and in preparation for investment or exit.
Collyer Bristow’s ‘CB Checkpoint’ team will give your business a full check-over, reviewing your key documentation and advising on any changes that are suggested or required. We will deliver a full report of our findings and offer support, should you need it, to ensure legal protection for your business, its assets, and ultimately its reputation.
CB Comply: Data protection training
Collyer Bristow’s Data Privacy team offers live, interactive, engaging and practical training sessions on a variety of privacy-related topics.
Important change in Employment law
From 26 October 2024, employers have a new legal obligation to “take reasonable steps” to proactively prevent sexual harassment in the workplace.
Employers facing a sexual harassment claim will need to demonstrate the targeted measures they have implemented to comply with this new positive duty. Failure to comply may open employers up to both financial and reputational risks. Key measures include training staff and policy review/implementation.
Collyer Bristow's bespoke training is delivered by our experienced Employment lawyers in an engaging and informative way designed to ensure all employees in your organisation have a clear understanding of the new law (and the implications of it) to help you manage and prevent sexual harassment occurring in the workplace. We can then also review and/or draft all necessary policies and contracts, including those for clients and customers.
We work with clients across a vast range of industries supporting them through the full range of disputes. We provide dynamic and tailored strategies to get them back on track and focused on the day-to-day activities required for success.
CB Clarity: Pre and post nuptial agreement services
The purpose of a nuptial agreement is to agree a fair financial settlement between a couple in the event they get divorced/the civil partnership is dissolved, and it seeks to protect any pre- acquired assets such as inheritance, businesses or property and also seeks to deal with any future inheritance. Put simply, pre and post- nuptial agreements help to provide security, clarity and certainty in the future, for both parties.
CB Entrust: The personalised will writing service from Collyer Bristow
CB Entrust is not an off the shelf will such as those available on the high street, but a fixed price expert approach to writing one of the most significant documents of your life.
We work with property owners, investors, developers, funders and both landlords and tenants on the financing, growth, management and disposal of their property and portfolios.
We recognise that as each family office is unique in terms of culture, structure and scope, it is crucial to work with a multi-disciplinary team of trusted advisers with the ability to provide you with pragmatic and truly bespoke advice.
Our multi-disciplinary team has extensive experience advising clients on managing their investment portfolio whether this covers real estate, heritage property or private equity. When it comes to deploying capital, we take a commercial approach whilst striving to minimise the risk involved.
Helping those in the financial sector respond rapidly to market changes.
Now more than ever, your business needs to work with a legal team with a deep understanding of the changing financial markets which can provide you with practical, incisive guidance. Our work ranges from corporate finance, lending, and restructuring, to funding, regulation, high-value banking litigation and complex claims against financial institutions.
ENSURING THE BEST OUTCOME FOR BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE.
Whether you are an investor or dealing with a private equity fund, our team delivers tailored solutions with a commitment to ensuring the best possible outcome for both sides of the table.
SUPPORTING THE ENGINE OF GLOBAL COMMERCE & INDUSTRY.
We have a long history of supporting the manufacturing and logistics sectors. Our clients come from such diverse sub-sectors as FMCG, automotive, medical devices, digital technology, food & drink, construction, beauty and fashion. Whether you source or process raw materials, manufacture parts or products, or transport and store the goods, we have the sector and legal expertise you need.
Across our various specialisms we work with clients and contacts based in countries all around the world. However as a firm we maintain a particular focus upon; have a cultural awareness and language expertise in; and have built considerable professional contacts in Italy, USA, Turkey, Channel Islands, and Switzerland.
All of us have at least part of our lives online and in digital assets such as emails, social media profiles, cryptocurrency and online bank accounts, to name just a few. The law recognises that digital assets can be owned. However, there is no consistency between assets and you may find that some of your most valuable assets are mere licences to use a third-party provider’s service. This has significant consequences when attempting to access, manage and transfer digital assets after death.
As well as the obvious benefits to both employers and employees of continuing to combine working from home with going into the office and more flexible hours, there are employment law and other legal implications that employers will need to consider. Each organisation’s requirements will be slightly different.
The metaverse. Artificial intelligence. E-sports. Cryptocurrency. Traditional business models and industries have either been or are being disrupted by digital innovation, paving the way for new opportunities and changing “the way that things are done.”
