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Overview
Rosamond specialises in tax and estate planning advice for individual private clients, families and trustees, onshore and offshore.
Awards & Accolades
Spears 500 2026 ranks Rosamond McDowell as ‘Top Recommended’ for Tax & Trust Lawyers with a focus on Tax and estate planning.
The Legal 500 UK 2026 ranks Rosamond McDowell in the ‘Hall of Fame’ for ‘Personal Tax, Trusts and Probate’ and highlights Rosamond McDowell as a ‘Recommended Key Lawyer’ for ‘Agriculture and Estates’, ‘Charities and Not-for-Profit’, ‘Personal Tax, Trusts and Probate’ and ‘Contentious Trusts and Probate’.
Chambers UK Guide 2025 and Chambers HNW 2025 ranks Rosamond McDowell for ‘Private Wealth Law (London Firms)’.
Spear’s UK 2025 ranks Rosamond McDowell as ‘Top Recommended’ for the ‘Tax and estate planning’ within the ‘Tax Lawyers’ category. (Page 293)
The Legal 500 UK 2025 ranks Rosamond McDowell in the ‘Hall of Fame’, for the ‘Private Client: Personal Tax, Trusts and Probate’ category.
Rosamond McDowell is listed in the Spear’s Tax & Trust Adviser’s Index 2024 as a “Top Recommended ” Tax Lawyer.
Rosamond is listed in Chambers HNW 2023 as a Leading Individual and as as a ranked top private client solicitor specialising in private wealth law, contentious trusts & estates, agriculture & landed estates and charities and not-for-profit.
Chambers HNW 2023 highlights Rosamond for her expertise in trusts, and cross-border and domestic estate planning, with one comment advising that “Rosamond knew the technical, multi-jurisdictional side of things as well as the softer, emotional side. Rosamond understands the issues and immediately puts the client at ease.”
Comments to Chambers HNW and the Legal 500 UK advise that Rosamond “is wonderful and definitely has a unique skill set,” that “she has considerable litigation skills and is also very good on planning,” that “she is calm and thorough and conveys her client’s position clearly and robustly,” and that “she is very bright and great to work with, a sensible lawyer, advises her clients sensibly and is an original thinker who is good at strategy tactics.” The law directories recognise that “she speaks several languages and is very good on the international scene as a result – she speaks both fluent German and Arabic,” that “she has a rare combination of skills and a very interesting background” and that “she is very competent and a real consummate private client lawyer with strong dispute-handling skills.” Highlighting her expertise in trusts, and cross-border and domestic estate planning, a source says she “brings a wealth of family matter experience and relates well to each of the different generations involved” another adding “A joy to work with, combining tremendous fun with astonishing efficiency”.
Rosamond is listed in eprivateclient’s 50 Most Influential 2023. She has been included in the Citywealth Leaders List for many years and endorsed by Who’s Who Legal: Private Client. The Spear’s 500 2024 and Spear’s Tax & Trust Advisers List 2023 list Rosamond as a “Top Recommended Tax & Trust Lawyer”.
