Wendy Walton is the head of global private clients at BDO LLP, specialising in the taxation of high-net-worth individuals.  She has over 30 years’ experience, all at BDO, in corporate, personal inheritance and trust tax with a particular focus on private clients.

Wendy deals with UK and international families with complex tax issues.  She particularly enjoys dealing with the interaction between corporate entities, individual shareholders and their trusts. Wendy works with her clients to develop tax solutions that ensure their tax risk is managed and supports her clients overall family wealth and succession objectives.

Wendy works closely with the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP), and was the chair of STEP’s England and Wales technical committee from 2011 to 2015.  She has also been recognised through independent research by Citywealth and Spears; more recently Wendy was once again recognised by eprivateclient as one of the 50 most influential practitioners of 2018.