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Stephanie provides taxation, trust, estate planning, business succession and wealth protection services to high net worth individuals and corporations.

Stephanie takes the time to understand her client’s objectives and provides them with strategic advice in respect of their personal and business succession planning, wealth protection and asset structuring. She assists her clients to understand complex tax and trust law to achieve their overall objectives.

Stephanie also presents to various associations, professional development bodies and private entities on her core areas of expertise, including Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand, Legalwise and various accounting firms.

Qualifications/Memberships:

  • Master of Taxation (University of Sydney)
  • Bachelor of Law/Bachelor of Business and Commerce (Accounting) (Western Sydney University)

Career highlights include:

  • Advising a client on the restructure of their family business to achieve their succession objectives and the utilisation of various tax exemptions and rollovers to reduce tax applicable to the restructure to nil.
  • Successfully assisted a client under review by the ATO in relation to multiple related entities in respect of dealings with foreign persons.
  • Implementing a long-term multi-generational succession structure for the succession of an established family business.
  • Advising a client on extensive issues relating to a deficient testamentary trust and the strategic management of beneficiary expectations.
  • Assisting a widow to implement a wealth protection structure to accumulate and preserve family wealth for her children.

Contact & Links
Location
  • Level 25
    161 Castlereagh Street
    Sydney NSW 2000
    Australia

Bartier Perry
Headquarters: Sydney, Australia

4 The Best Lawyers in Australia awards

4 Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in Australia awards

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Recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in Australia 2024 for work in:
  • Wealth Management / Succession Planning Practice
Awards:
  • Doyle's Guide - Rising Star in Australia, 2020 in tax law
  • Lawyers Weekly 30 under 30 Finalist in Taxation, 2021

Specific areas of focus
  • Tax advice: Advising clients on a range of state and federal taxes including income tax, CGT, GST and stamp duty and preparing applications for private rulings from the ATO and Revenue NSW.
  • Estate planning: Advising clients in relation to their personal estate planning and the creation of structures to affect the multi-generational succession of family wealth.
  • Wealth protection: Advising clients on and implementing strategies to protect client’s wealth against risks of legal claims from disgruntled family members or other potential estate claimants.
  • Tax disputes: Assisting clients under audit or investigation with the ATO and preparation of objections in respect to ATO assessments.
  • Business succession: Preparation of tailored company Constitutions and trust documentation to provide for succession of control of entities.
  • Trusts: Advising clients on a range of issues relating to the establishment and administration of trusts and the preparation of trust documentation.

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