GEOFFREY SHINDLER

Geoffrey Shindler OBE is a Consultant with DWF LLP Solicitors. He specialises in wills, trusts, capital taxation and estate work.

Geoffrey has a degree and post graduate degree in law from the University of Cambridge and is a solicitor and egistered Trust and Estate Practitioner. He was one of the founder members of STEP and its Chairman between 1994 and 1998 and was Chairman of its Education Committee when its Diploma examination was developed and introduced. He is now its President.

He is Chairman of Manchester Camerata Charity and he serves on the Board of Directors of the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester; he is a trustee of the Manchester Portico Library Charitable Trust. He is Vice Chairman of Lancashire County Cricket Club and a member of the UK based Trust Law Committee and has sat on various committees studying the working of inheritance tax legislation in the UK. He is also a member of the International Academy of Estate & Trust Law.

Geoffrey is the Consulting Editor of Trusts & Estates Law & Tax Journal and a member of the Editorial Board of Wills & Trusts Law Reports.