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Farrer & Co
66 LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS
LONDON
WC2A 3LH
England

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Work Department

Disputes

Position

Charlotte has broad experience acting for both private and corporate clients on a wide range of commercial disputes including breach of contract and fiduciary duty as well as fraud. She also regularly advises on trusts and estates disputes both offshore and in England and Wales, acting for both trustees and beneficiaries. Charlotte has particular experience of will and probate disputes to include claims for proprietary estoppel, validity, capacity and construction issues as well as claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 and in the Court of Protection. She has also assisted on a number of complex multi-jurisdictional trust disputes on issues involving breach of trust, beneficiary rights of information and jurisdictional issues. Charlotte has been recognised as a ‘Rising Star’ by Thomas Reuters in its 2014 London Super Lawyers list.

Career

Trained at Farrer & Co; qualified as a solicitor in September 2008 and became an Associate in 2012.

Memberships

Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists (ACTAPS)

Education

Brasenose College, Oxford

Lawyer Rankings

London > Private client > Contentious trusts and probate

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Charlotte Fraser – Farrer & Co

The ‘extremely experienced’ and ‘simply outstanding’ team at Farrer & Co is led by Toby Graham , Jeremy Gordon and Charlotte Fraser. It has many other ‘brilliant’ partners among them Joanna Poole, Elizabeth Sainsbury and Henrietta Mason. This first-class team, which has ‘real strength in depth’, is involved in many of the largest trust/estates disputes each year, often involving assets of several billion pounds. It regularly advises trustees and beneficiaries on the full range of onshore and offshore contentious matters. The practice continues to act in the big-ticket trust litigation, international succession disputes, and the restructuring of high-value trust structures. Increasingly, it is instructed to act as administrator of UHNW estates, which are the subject of litigation. It has also been busy acting in cases involving very high value capacity issues and court of protection work. Another highlight was Jennifer Ridgway joining the team from Michelmores LLP. Clients remark that ‘all of the associates, without exception, are excellent’. Tom McPhail and Joseph de Lacey receive particular praise for their work in this area.

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