Orlando Bridgeman

Areas of practice:

Orlando specialises in strategic tax planning for landed estates and rural businesses, particularly as they navigate the shifting landscape following the 2024 inheritance tax reforms.

Orlando’s work includes but is not limited to:

• Inheritance tax and succession planning. Structuring lifetime gift strategies, with a focus on preserving agricultural and business reliefs while meeting succession aims;

• Assisting rural clients when launching and growing non-farming ventures, making use of inheritance and capital gains tax reliefs while protecting core assets. His clients’ businesses encompass activities such as tourism, events, fishing, golf, forestry and renewable energy;

• Drafting tailored partnership agreements and advising on profit-sharing, partner changes, and business structures to support tax planning;

• Providing general wills, trust and tax advice to non-rural clients who value his clear communication and prompt support.

Career:

Orlando is dual qualified as a solicitor (2014) and a Chartered Tax Adviser (2023). Orlando joined Wrigleys in April 2020 and was made a Managing Associate in November 2024. Orlando leads technical training within Wrigleys’ private client team, mentors junior fee-earners and sits on the firm’s Stamp Duty Land Tax committee and Precedents committee, ensuring colleagues are kept abreast of legislative change. Orlando acts pro bono as a trustee of the York Glaziers Trust, overseeing management of its investment portfolio.

Professional memberships:

Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners

Chartered Institute of Taxation

Agricultural Law Association

Association of Partnership Practitioners

Accreditations and Accolades:

A Private Client Rising Star in the Legal 500 Northern Powerhouse Awards 2024.

Recognised as one of the 2024 eprivateclient NextGen Leaders.

Publications:

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