Claire Randall

Partner at Farrer & Co

Speaker

Claire advises UK-based and international individuals, families, trustees and family offices on complex UK and international tax matters, including UK tax advisory and tax dispute work, with a practice spanning high-value private wealth planning, cross-border structuring and tax risk management. She regularly acts for ultra-high-net-worth clients and multi-generational families, often where assets, residences or family structures span multiple jurisdictions.

Claire is recognised as a technical authority on complex UK tax law and is frequently consulted on novel or difficult points. She advises internationally mobile clients and families under the post-2025 UK tax regime and is fully up to date with the foreign income and gains regime and the long-term residence rules. Claire regularly advises on the interaction between UK tax and overseas regimes, including the application of double taxation agreements, managing exposure to double taxation, and addressing historic positions as clients move to, return to or invest in the UK. Her work also includes advising on the tax treatment of digital and alternative assets, including cryptoassets, often in the context of international structures and historic compliance issues.

Alongside her advisory work, Claire has extensive experience in tax dispute resolution and is widely known for her work on HMRC enquiries, investigations and disclosures. She assists clients with negotiated settlements and complex, high-value disputes arising from historic planning, offshore structures and succession arrangements, and has experience of representing clients through to proceedings before the tax tribunal. Her disputes practice is closely aligned with her advisory work, with a focus on resolving issues efficiently while preserving long-term planning objectives.

Claire is known for her calm and methodical approach. She is skilled at analysing complex international structures, identifying historic tax exposure, and presenting issues clearly to HMRC and other authorities to achieve practical, fair outcomes.

Where matters cross borders, Claire often acts as the central point of coordination for international advisers, ensuring a consistent and coherent approach.

Clients value her ability to translate complex tax issues into clear, actionable advice and her role as a trusted long-term adviser, often working with families and family offices across generations.

Claire qualified as a solicitor in 2007.