Geoffrey Shindler

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Geoffrey Shindler is a UK (England and Wales) solicitor specialising in the field of Wills, Trusts and Estates law. He is a graduate (with first class honours) of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University (having been a W.M. Tapp scholar) and qualified as a solicitor in 1969. He is recognised as a leader in the profession within his specialty, in Chambers Guide to the UK Legal Profession and the UK Legal 500.

He is a member of the editorial board of the Wills and Trusts Law Reports and Tottel's Trust Law International and Consulting Editor of the Trusts and Estates Law and Tax Journal.

One of the founding members of the Society of Trusts and Estate Practitioners (STEP), he was appointed president of STEP worldwide in November 2006. He is a former chairman of the organisation.

He is the Director of the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, a committee member of the Lancashire County Cricket Club, and a trustee of Manchester Camerata Trust and the Portico Library. He is also a member of the Board of Advisors of the International Compliance Association.

In April 2006 Shindler left Manchester-based law firm Halliwells LLP, after 20 years' with the firm, to establish a new firm in partnership with Roger Lane-Smith, former Senior Partner of DLA Piper. The new firm, Lane-Smith & Shindler LLP, opened on 2 May 2006.

He is the father of British television producer Nicola Shindler and brother of the novelist and scholar Colin Shindler.