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Bryan Dean

01483 467476 bryan.dean@dmhstallard.com View profile

Work Department

Private Client

Position

Bryan is a Partner in the Guildford Private Client department.

Career

Bryan’s practice focuses on estate administration, wills, trust administration, residential conveyancing sales, powers of attorney and Court of Protection work.

With some 35 years’ experience, Bryan ensures that his clients are given the benefit of his knowledge as well as the best advice. Bryan has many clients that return time and again.

Bryan’s particular expertise is in the administration of both simple and complex estates, high value and intestate estates, and, where possible, ensuring inheritance tax savings.

He advises on and drafts wills (mirror wills, life interest wills and discretionary trust wills), inheritance tax planning, powers of attorney (general, lasting and trustee), deputyship applications and other Court of Protection applications.

He deals with sales on behalf of returning clients and executors. He also undertakes more specialist conveyancing work such as deeds of gift of shares in a property and equity releases.

Work highlights

• Creating a £100k saving on Inheritance Tax on an estate valued at £1million+ by submitting a Deed of Variation to HMRC
• Preparing deeds to provide children of the deceased with the benefit of two annual CGT allowances upon sale of a property following the death of a parent

Languages

English

Memberships

STEP

Solicitors for the elderly

Education

Bryan qualified as a solicitor in 1985