People

Rachel Brooks

Partner


Career & Experience

Rachel is a Partner in the Private Wealth team who advises clients on tax and estate planning, with a particular niche in rural and landed estates.

She can help her clients with drafting a Will, tax planning and administration of complex estates, particularly where there are succession issues. Rachel looks at the strategic planning of assets through the generations for landed estate clients and Farming families.

Recently, she has advised on how to do this using business property relief and agricultural property relief to reduce inheritance tax bills and so avoid the need to sell part of the estate. She has also helped clients with creating trust structures and family offices for the protection of assets through successive generations.

Rachel can provide sensitive and pragmatic advice to families on the law of mental capacity as well, which many families now find themselves needing to understand when it comes to supporting a loved one with their affairs.

In her free time away from work, Rachel enjoys walking in the New Forest with her dogs.

Accolades

  • Trust and Estate Practitioner
  • Under Sheriff of Hampshire
  • Leader in her Field (Chambers and Partners)
People

Rachel Brooks

Partner


Career & Experience

Rachel is a Partner in the Private Wealth team who advises clients on tax and estate planning, with a particular niche in rural and landed estates.

She can help her clients with drafting a Will, tax planning and administration of complex estates, particularly where there are succession issues. Rachel looks at the strategic planning of assets through the generations for landed estate clients and Farming families.

Recently, she has advised on how to do this using business property relief and agricultural property relief to reduce inheritance tax bills and so avoid the need to sell part of the estate. She has also helped clients with creating trust structures and family offices for the protection of assets through successive generations.

Rachel can provide sensitive and pragmatic advice to families on the law of mental capacity as well, which many families now find themselves needing to understand when it comes to supporting a loved one with their affairs.

In her free time away from work, Rachel enjoys walking in the New Forest with her dogs.

Accolades

  • Trust and Estate Practitioner
  • Under Sheriff of Hampshire
  • Leader in her Field (Chambers and Partners)

Expertise

  • Rural and landed estates
  • Tax and succession planning
  • Wills and Power of Attorney
  • Private and trust ownership
  • Estate administration
  • Heritage assets

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Testimonials

Don't just take our word for it

“She’s really very good with clients. They have a great deal of trust in her.”

Chambers 2020

“Rachel is excellent. She’s professional and empathetic, and explains legal stuff in laymen’s terms, which makes it easy to understand.”

“Rachel is an excellent lawyer with significant levels of understanding of all aspects of private law. She is commercially aware but treats clients as individuals.”

Chambers 2022

‘Rachel Brooks leads the department. She is very personable and thorough.’

Legal 500 UK 2025

‘‘Rachel Brooks and her team are very responsive and are able to provide complex advice in an approachable manner.’

Legal 500 UK 2025

‘Rachel Brooks is a real expert. She’s able to provide advice and guidance across a wide spectrum of issues. She leads a team that really shows strength and depth.’

Legal 500 UK 2025

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