Helen Ratcliffe

Helen Ratcliffe is a Consultant at Broadfield (Broadfield Law UK) in London and a former head of private wealth and senior partner, providing specialist advisory services to an international clientele. Her practice encompasses estate planning, asset protection, tax planning, regulatory developments, governance matters, wealth vehicles and succession planning, and she frequently collaborates with advisers across multiple jurisdictions. Her technical scope includes Common Reporting Standard compliance, Persons of Significant Control matters, the UK Trust Register and Register of Overseas Entities, beneficial property ownership issues, the Requirement to Correct regime, and contentious trust and estate matters.

Her client base comprises individuals, families, trustees and beneficiaries from offshore trust jurisdictions, Europe, the Middle East, the Far East and the US. She is recognised in the Legal 500 Hall of Fame and the Private Client Global Elite, and is a member of the Law Society and the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP).