Unlike a lot of London law firms who are downsizing their private client teams Taylor Wessing has decided to expand its private client practice due to the sheer amount of work that is coming in, according to partner and head of private client Mark Buzzoni and partner in the private client team Ryan Myint.

In order to service the extra workload, the firm has been actively recruiting for six new people to join its team.

“We took the view at the beginning of March that we needed to expand our associate numbers, simply due to the volume of work, particularly as we approached the end of the last tax year, and...