As one of BKL’s senior trust and estate practitioners, Ryan combines complex advisory work on UK and offshore trusts with broad tax advisory experience.
Ryan’s expertise covers all areas of trusts, with specialisms in offshore trusts, non-UK trustees, landed estates, employment related trusts and the HMRC Trust Registration Service. He has experience of complex structuring involving trusts, foundations, corporate groups and other hybrid and offshore entities.
In guiding private clients through succession planning, Ryan balances the sensitive, competing family needs that are often involved, while applying his high-level technical expertise to set out a bespoke tax-efficient plan for holding family wealth for the future.
Joining BKL’s trusts team in 2024, Ryan brings over a decade of experience in the fields of tax and trust advice. This includes a senior position at Deloitte.
Ryan’s experience in audit and banking, gained in the UK and New Zealand, enables him to share commercial and strategic perspectives with business clients. Ryan is a full member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP), ICAEW and CIOT.
Away from work, Ryan enjoys watching rugby, looking after his vegetable patch and exploring the Welsh countryside with his family.
