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Mills & Reeve LLP Offices

Mills & Reeve LLP
78-84 COLMORE ROW
BIRMINGHAM
B3 2AB
England
Visit website 0344 880 2666

Matthew Hansell

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0121 456 8297 matthew.hansell@mills-reeve.com

Work Department

Private client.

Position

Head of private client group at Mills & Reeve, specialising in undertaking estate planning wills and trusts for high-net-worth individuals and entrepreneurs. Acts for three individuals in the top ten of the Midlands Rich List. Winner of the Birmingham Law Society Private Client Lawyer of The Year 2005. On behalf of the private client group at Mills & Reeve accepted the award for the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners ‘UK Regional Legal Team of the Year 2006/2007’.

Career

Trained Manby & Steward; assistant solicitor Ivens & Morton 1985-87; Martineau Johnson 1988-2004 (partner from 1993); partner Mills & Reeve 2004, initially heading up the private client team in Birmingham, becoming national head of private client from 2006. Director, Mills & Reeve Trust Corporation Limited.

Memberships

Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners; Solicitors for the Elderly; Law Society Capital Taxes Committee.

Education

King Edward VI Grammar School, Stourbridge; University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology, Cardiff (1982 LLB); College of Law, Chester (1983 Solicitors Finals).

Leisure

Walking.

Lawyer Rankings

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

(Hall of Fame)

Matthew Hansell – Mills & Reeve LLP

The ‘friendly team‘ at Mills & Reeve LLP ‘has built up a superb reputation in the Midlands’ for its work with business owners ( in particular family businesses) and for its advice to wealthy individuals, families and landed estate clients on the full range of estate planning and wealth structuring matters.  It also garners praise for its work on complex international estate planning matters and on family investment companies. Under the joint leadership of John Grundy  and Lucy Howard it frequently advises wealthy philanthropists on the establishment of charities and on other forms of charitable giving.  Matthew Hansell  receives plaudits for his work with business owners and high-net-worth individuals. Principal associate, Sarah Wood , heads up the national trust administration team.

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