Thrings private client team boosts expertise with new partner appointment

By Peter Davison

25 October 2023

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Ben Coulson

Law firm Thrings has strengthened its private client team with the appointment of a new partner in its office in Lydney in the Forest of Dean.

Succession and tax expert Ben Coulson joins the firm from Shakespeare Martineau, bringing 10 years of experience in all areas of private client law from UK tax matters to personal estate planning affairs.

Regularly acting for High Net Worth clients, Ben has amassed a great deal of experience in areas such as Will planning, trusts and Lasting Powers of Attorney and has advised clients on matters ranging from bespoke inheritance tax advice, complex and high value trust and estate administration to international assets and succession law.

Having expanded to Lydney and Ross-on-Wye through its merger with Okells FrancisLaw in 2022, Thrings is continuing to strengthen its presence in the Severn and Wye valleys with key appointments to its teams, benefitting its clients across the South West.

Ben said: “I am delighted to join a firm with the reputation Thrings has for putting clients first.

"Private client law is wide-ranging, but it consists of some of the most personal matters to individuals and families and we take the responsibility very seriously in ensuring our clients receive the best care and advice.”

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Samantha Doherty, partner in the private client team, said: “It is fantastic to have a lawyer of Ben’s calibre join us in the Lydney office. He is a proven champion for his clients and is committed to providing the best possible advice and we are delighted to have him as part of the team.”

By Peter Davison

Peter Davison is deputy editor of The Business Magazine. He has spent his life in journalism – doing work experience in newsrooms in and around Bristol while still at school, and landing his first job on a local newspaper aged 19. By 28 he was the youngest newspaper editor in the country.

An early advocate of online news, he spent the first years of the 2000s telling his bosses that the internet posed both the biggest opportunity and greatest threat to the newspaper industry and the art of journalism. He was right on both counts.

Since 2006 he has enjoyed a career as a freelance journalist. He lives in rural Wiltshire with one wife, two children, and three cats.