Geoffrey Shindler
Lane-Smith & Shindler LLP

Geoffrey Shindler is now a partner in Lane-Smith & Shindler LLP a Manchester, England based firm that specialises in trust and estate work.

He has a degree and post graduate degree in law from the University of Cambridge and is a solicitor and registered Trust and Estate Practitioner. He was one of the founder members of STEP and its Chairman between 1994 and 1998 Until recently he was Chairman of its Education Committee. He has recently been elected as President of STEP. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, Lancashire County Cricket Club General Committee, the Trust Law Committee and has sat on various committees studying the working of inheritance tax legislation in the UK. He is a member of the International Academy of Estate & Trust Law. He is the Consulting Editor of Trusts & Estates Law & Tax Journal and a member of the Editorial Board of Wills & Trusts Law Reports, and on the Board of Tottel’s Trust Law International.