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Gorvins Solicitors Offices

Gorvins Solicitors
DALE HOUSE
TIVIOT DALE
STOCKPORT
SK1 1TA
England
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Almas Patankar

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0161 930 5151 almas.patankar@gorvins.com View profile

Work Department

Wills, Trust and Probate

Position

Almas qualified in 2018 and joined Gorvins in 2020 as an Associate in the Wills, Trust and Probate Team. She is on track to become STEP qualified by the end of the year. Almas deals with difficult family situations and always aims to act in a sensitive yet efficient manner for all clients. She acts for a wide variety of clients and matters including providing advice on contentious Court of Protection, deputyships, asset protection and complex estate administration. Almas also advises on the use of trusts and set up of trusts within the will or during lifetime.

 

Career

Trained at Chafes Hague Lambert Solicitors and qualified in 2018.

Joined Gorvins Solicitors in 2020.

Memberships

Society of Trusts and estates practitioners (STEP)

Education

2012-2015 The University of Law Manchester (GDL & LPC)

2009-2012 The University of Nottingham (BSc Hons)

 

Personal

Providing advice and representation on an estate administration where the executors had a poor working relationship.

Conducting my own advocacy in a hearing successfully representing a client in a contentious Court of Protection matter.

Lawyer Rankings

North West > Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate

Gorvins Solicitors advises on a broad range of wills, trusts and succession planning mandates, as well as undertaking Court of Protection work, such as acting as deputies and submitting applications. The firm has a specialist family business team which leverages expertise from its deep bench of private client lawyers to offer a full service including corporate and commercial, wills, trusts and probate, and also employment law counsel. Head of department Michael Smoult jointly heads the family business team and has extensive experience in matters concerning inheritance tax planning, will preparation, and protecting the assets of clients with disabled beneficiaries. Julie Burgess has expertise advising on complex estates, including agricultural property and foreign assets, as well as lifetime planning for disabled and vulnerable children. Almas Patankar is involved with inheritance tax planning and Court of Protection matters.

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