Areas of practice:

Orlando qualified as a solicitor in 2013. Orlando advises on private client work with a focus on wills, trusts and tax planning. His clients cover the whole country and include trustees, entrepreneurs, family partnerships and landowners.

Orlando is qualified as a solicitor and a Chartered Tax Advisor.

Orlando’s specialisms include:

• advising farmers and landowners on succession, tax planning and business structures
• advising trustees, and acting as a trustee, for trusts with diverse assets and business interests
• farm partnerships and partnership agreements
• providing inheritance tax planning advice for mixed estates managing property portfolios alongside activities such as farming and forestry, having regard to so-called “Balfour planning”
• setting up grandparents’ trusts
• tax advice on woodland and forestry

Orlando volunteers as a trustee of the York Glaziers Trust, a stained glass conservation charity which is dedicated to the care and conservation of historic stained glass in York Minster and throughout the UK.

Professional memberships:

Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (TEP).

Chartered Institute of Taxation (CTA)

Agricultural Law Association

Publications:

Orlando has written the following articles:

Capital Gains Tax – second report from the Office of Tax Simplification

External publications

Orlando was recognised as one of the 2024 eprivateclient NextGen Leaders.