Emily O’Donnell
Emily is a Partner in our Private Client Advisory Team and spearheads the firm’s cross office Landed Estates practice group.
Emily specialises in advising Landed Estate owners, whether trustee, corporate or individuals, on succession planning matters including trust work (including Settled Land Act trusts) and tax planning.
Emily has a wealth of experience in matters relating to inheritance tax mitigation, particularly agricultural and business reliefs, including “Balfour” planning. Emily also has a particular interest in heritage property tax reliefs.
Prior to joining Birketts, Emily qualified and practised as a Solicitor with a specialist private wealth City law firm before joining the Landed Estates Team for a large national law firm.
Emily is part of the Cambridge Private Client Advisory Team but also spends time across all our offices developing and supporting the Landed Estates practice group.
Areas of Expertise
Accreditations
Legal 500 [UK 2025]
Leading Associate
Emily O’Donnell has been very thoughtful, responsive, creative and has brought a huge range of knowledge and experience to achieve a smooth advisory process and successful outcome. The service and advice we have received compares very favourably indeed with trusts advice we have received elsewhere before.
Legal 500 [UK 2024]
Insights
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Budget 2024: restrictions to agricultural property relief and business property relieflegal updateBudget 2024: restrictions to agricultural property relief and business property relief
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Budget 2023: Consultation on the taxation of environmental land management schemeslegal updateBudget 2023: Consultation on the taxation of environmental land management schemes
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Heritage property and the favourable tax incentiveslegal updateHeritage property and the favourable tax incentives
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Considering the tax consequences of farm and estate diversification updatelegal updateConsidering the tax consequences of farm and estate diversification update
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Considering the tax consequences of farm and estate diversificationlegal updateConsidering the tax consequences of farm and estate diversification
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