Tessa Lorimer
High Net Worth Guide 2024
Band 2 : Tax: Private Client
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About
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Practice Areas
Tessa is a consultant in the private client and tax team, focusing on tax investigations. She is a barrister who specialises in both civil and criminal tax fraud investigations and litigation conducted by the Special Investigation and Criminal Investigation departments of HMRC. Tessa has extensive experience in advising the Board of the former Inland Revenue, Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office as well as HMRC and SOCA (now NCA) in relation to their most complex direct and indirect tax investigations and prosecutions, as well as money laundering, organised / white collar crime, and regulatory offences.
Most of her work has been international in nature and Tessa has considerable experience of mutual legal assistance, extradition, search warrants, judicial review, injunctions, SOCPA production orders and legal professional privilege issues. Tessa now specialises in representing both companies and individuals who are subject to civil and criminal, direct and indirect tax fraud investigations and litigation, as well as defending white collar crime and regulatory offences.
Career
Tessa joined Withers in 2014.
Publications
Tax Investigation Practitioners Group
Lincolns Inn
Chambers Review
High Net Worth
Tessa Lorimer is a consultant at the firm and a qualified barrister who advises high net worth individuals on HMRC investigations.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Tessa Lorimer is as dedicated and sophisticated a practitioner as I have ever come across."
"Tessa Lorimer is an excellent lawyer: very knowledgeable, good judgment, hard-working and pleasant to deal with."
"Tessa Lorimer used to work for the Revenue and Customs Office and used to be a barrister; she is brilliant to have in your corner. She makes you feel at ease, despite the length of matters."
"Tessa Lorimer is as dedicated and sophisticated a practitioner as I have ever come across."
"Tessa Lorimer is an excellent lawyer: very knowledgeable, good judgment, hard-working and pleasant to deal with."
"Tessa Lorimer used to work for the Revenue and Customs Office and used to be a barrister; she is brilliant to have in your corner. She makes you feel at ease, despite the length of matters."
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