Fairchild Oldfield Limited is an estate planning firm working with families, homeowners and business owners across England and Wales.
Estate planning often stops at the legal documents. Our approach is to look at the numbers too, considering the inheritance tax position alongside the drafting, so a plan is set up with the tax in mind as well as the law. That is only possible because of the range of experience on the team: someone who came up where estate planning law meets tax, an independent financial adviser, an estate planner with a risk-first background, and a manager whose job is to keep every case moving.
We are estate planning specialists and will writers. We are not a firm of solicitors, and this website provides general information rather than personalised legal, tax or financial advice. Where regulated financial advice is appropriate, it is provided by an independent financial adviser, and independent financial advice is regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.
Our team
Gordon Cook
Managing DirectorGordon has spent his career at the point where estate planning law meets tax. He came up through the legal side of a regulated law firm in Kent, handling private client and estate work, before moving across to a tax and estate planning practice in 2015, at a time when the two disciplines were converging in exactly the way our own work does.
That background shapes how he advises. Wills, trusts and lasting powers of attorney are drafted with the tax position in view, and the tax position is considered in light of what the documents can actually achieve. He takes the view that clients should pay the correct amount of tax, using the reliefs and allowances genuinely available to them, without recourse to aggressive planning that may not survive scrutiny.
Clients tend to value his patience with the detail and his willingness to explain the reasoning rather than simply present a conclusion.
Focus: estate planning law, inheritance tax, wills, trusts and lasting powers of attorney.
Kieran Bradbury is an independent financial adviser with 20 years of experience in pensions, investments and tax planning. Having gone independent after years at a large firm, he offers impartial advice shaped around each client's circumstances, and works alongside our estate planning team so the tax position is considered together with the wills, trusts and gifting.
Independent financial advice is regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.
Focus: pensions, investments and tax planning.
How we work
Every plan starts with a confidential conversation about your family, your assets and your wishes. We set out the options and agree any fees before work begins, so there are no surprises. The documents are then prepared and, where needed, submitted for registration, and the plan can be reviewed as the rules and your circumstances change. You can see our full price list, and read the thinking behind our approach in our estate planning guide.
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