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With an impressive list of long-term clients, the team at Wrigleys Solicitors LLP provides a ‘high level of service’ and ‘appropriate advice and consistent quality’. The ‘wise, patient and extremely knowledgeable’ Matthew Wrigley leads the team in Leeds, and is an ‘outstanding lawyer’. The firms acts for over 100 landed estates.

Addleshaw Goddard LLP has a cross-departmental team which advises on issues such as trustees’ duties, restructuring family settlements and indemnities. It regularly acts for international clients. Pervinder Kaur leads the team.

The ‘very professional and knowledgeable’ team at Gordons LLP acts for a number of wealthy families, and is well known for its high-quality non-contentious probate work. Martin Holdsworth is noted for his ‘commercial attitude’.

Irwin Mitchell LLP’s ‘tenacious’ team, led by Craig Marshall, is instructed by a number of major international financial institutions including Barclays and HSBC. It was also instructed by Mandy Tennant in her high-profile fight to gain reasonable financial provision from her late husband’s estate.

Duncan Milwain leads the ‘competent’ team at Lupton Fawcett LLP.

Janet Hoskin leads the team at Pinsent Masons LLP, whose clients include the trustees of a large offshore commercial unit trust, and a major insurer.

The team at Rollits LLP provides estate and planning advice to high-net-worth clients, and is also regularly instructed to draft bespoke wills.

Andrew Jackson’s team is appreciated for its ‘strength in depth, professional nature and knowledge’, and receives referrals from other firms nationwide. Highlights in 2010 included advising on the administration of a substantial UK estate for a non-domiciled individual. The ‘outstanding’ Kevin Webster heads the department.

Sara Rogers heads the ‘excellent’ team at Clarion. The team’s response times are ‘fantastic’.

Denison Till’s team often attracts instructions from abroad in relation to the assets of non-domiciliaries.

Eatons has a bespoke will-writing service, and advises on tax and trust matters.

The team at Ford & Warren provides tax-planning advice to high-net-worth individuals.

Grays provides tax planning advice.

Keeble Hawson’s ‘excellent’ team focuses on planning and offshore asset preservation matters for high-net-worth clients, as well as Court of Protection work. The ‘very professional’ George Connell heads the department, and the ‘approachable and professional’ Michele Todd is also recommended.

Julia Rangecroft heads McCormicks’ department, which is experienced in tax planning issues such as offshore trusts, capital gains and the restructuring of trusts.

Taylor & Emmet LLP deals with all aspects of private client work, with a particular focus on tax and trust issues.

Wake Smith & Tofields in 2010 advised on several high-value estates in the course of administration. Niche strengths include inheritance tax mitigation.

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