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Carson McDowell’s ‘excellent’ team advises on complex estate administration matters with international elements, and tax relief matters. It also advises on trusts, and is growing its offering in the mental capacity area. Neil Bleakley is ‘meticulous’, with a broad knowledge of the law, and provides ‘first-class’ advice.

Cleaver Fulton Rankin advises on complex trust and estate matters, including insolvent estates, charitable trusts, and tax issues. Alastair Rankin and Michael Graham are recommended, and William Cross is noted for matrimonial and children matters, including international child abduction work.

Pinsent Masons Belfast LLP’s private wealth team advises in conjunction with the firm’s tax team, and specialises in strategic asset protection as well as the administration of estates. It has recently been active advising clients from the Far East, Russia and Ukraine. Ian Huddleston and senior associate Deborah Ward are recommended.

Tughans advises on a breadth of trusts, estates, and probate matters, including inheritance tax and matters involving the Office of Care and Protection. It recently advised in relation to a multimillion-pound estate where the deceased’s body had not been recovered. Brid McColgan heads the team.

Led by Gerard Small, John McKee & Son’s private client team has experience across property matters, controllerships, elderly issues, and enduring powers of attorney.

Millar McCall Wylie is advising on a probate matter involving a deed of variation the validity of which is being questioned by HMRC; and is also advising on a foreign double-taxation issue. ‘Astute, empathetic’ practice head Conor Wylie is a chartered tax adviser, and an ‘oracle’ in tax, estate, trust and probate matters.

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