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Sarah von Schmidt

Partner | Farrer & Co

Office Location: United Kingdom

Jurisdiction

England and Wales

Top Specialisms

Estates: Planning

Tax Advisory

Trusts & Trusteeship

Professional Biography

Sarah is an experienced private client lawyer with a broad range of clients and a strong reputation for her work on trusts, tax, wills and succession planning, and family constitution and governance issues. Her clients include family offices, entrepreneurs, UK and international families, the executors of significant estates usually with complex assets including cross-border and the trustees or beneficiaries of trusts including those holding landed estates or family businesses.

What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?

Michael Nadra, Primrose Hill

What was your first job?

Bar work

What is the book you recommend to everyone?

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver