Victoria Mahon

Victoria has extensive expertise in private client work, covering general estate planning, wills and trusts. A key area for Victoria is advising vulnerable clients and their families who need additional support in protecting their assets where there are concerns over mental capacity or financial abuse. This includes managing Court of Protection applications, advising attorneys under lasting powers of attorney and court-appointed deputies, and setting up trusts for the vulnerable.

A further key area for Victoria is guiding clients with philanthropic aims on how to structure their charitable giving, setting up foundations tailored to their aims and guiding the trustees on the running of such foundations.

Victoria leads the Private Client team’s work in the philanthropy field; the team was shortlisted for the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) philanthropy team of the year award in 2024.

• Applying to the Court of Protection for authority for gifts to be made on behalf of incapacitated individuals.
• Setting up and advising on trusts for individuals with disabilities.
• Advising on the restructuring of charities, including the conversion of charitable trusts to charitable incorporated organisations (CIOs).
• Advising mixed US/UK citizen couples on their UK tax and estate planning.

• Victoria is a contributing author to Lexis Nexis PSL’s practice notes on lasting powers of attorney and issues relating to elderly clients.
• Contributing author to the UK private client section of the online jurisdictional guide “Lexology Panoramic 2025” (charities section).
• Contributing to responses to readers in the Financial Times on predatory marriage.
• Author of article in Today’s Wills and Probate on predatory marriage.
• Author of various articles in Charities Management magazine (on trustee loans, responsible investing and trustee conflicts).
• Author of the introductory chapter to ARK’s Private Client: An Expert Guide.

Victoria is ranked as a Top Recommended Private Client Tax Lawyer named in Spear’s 500. She was named in the Citywealth Top 100 Private Client Lawyers list 2021 (particularly due to her work in the philanthropy sector) and was awarded Silver in Citywealth’s Lawyer of the Year, Senior/Managing Associate in 2020.

Victoria is a member of the Society of Trusts and Estates Practitioners (STEP) as well as the STEP Mental Capacity Special Interest Group, the STEP Philanthropy Special Interest Group and the Charity Law Association.