Naomi Neville > Irwin Mitchell > Chichester, England > Lawyer Profile
Irwin Mitchell Offices
THOMAS EGGAR HOUSE
FRIARY LANE
CHICHESTER
PO19 1UF
England
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Naomi Neville
Work Department
Lifestyle & Estate Planning
Position
Partner
Career
I head up the Lifetime Estate Planning team on the south coast, across our Southampton and Chichester offices. I assist my clients with estate and tax planning, advising on wills, lifetime giving, and on the preparation of Lasting Powers of Attorney (for personal and business use).
I also have expertise is setting up and advising upon trusts and Family Investment Companies. I particularly enjoy finding creative solutions for business owners, entrepreneurs and directors, property owners, and those who have inherited wealth.
Lawyer Rankings
South East > Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Hampshire
Co-headed by Naomi Neville and Paula James, the Irwin Mitchell lifetime and estate planning department has considerable expertise in dealing with international tax issues, drafting complex wills, and handling estate disputes. Splitting her time between Southampton and Chichester, Neville regularly assists companies with their succession planning, while Chichester-based senior associate Laura Colville specialises in powers of attorney and probate matters. Amy Comins supports elderly and vulnerable individuals with property and financial affairs, and Emily Wentworth focuses on legal and beneficial co-ownership issues. Associate Nicola Hawkins is also noted.
South East > Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
The ‘brilliant’ lifetime and estate planning team at Irwin Mitchell offers advice to clients in the business wealth, rural business and private wealth spaces on all elements of tax, trusts and estate planning, including financial administration for individuals that lack capacity and Court of Protection work. Offering two trust companies and its in-house service, Irwin Mitchell Asset Management Limited, the team in Gatwick is led by the ‘fantastic’ and ‘exceptionally good’ Caroline Shelton, who acts for business owners as well as professional sportsmen and landowners with complex assets, wealth preservation issues and succession planning needs. Leading the Chichester office is Naomi Neville, who focuses on instructions from high-net-worth clients and handles probate and estate administration work for those with urban and rural businesses. Also co-heading the team is the national director of legal services for private clients Paula Myers, and national head Paula James. Rose Macfarlane is ‘a standout’ lawyer with a niche practice in non-contentious court applications for trustees.
Lawyer Rankings
- Personal tax, trusts and probate: Kent, Surrey, Sussex South East > Private client
- Personal tax, trusts and probate: Hampshire South East > Private client
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Real estate > Environment and planning
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media and entertainment
- Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Hampshire
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Commercial property: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Real estate > Construction
- Employment > Employment: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Private client > Family: Hampshire
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Hampshire
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Hampshire
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Kent, Surrey and Sussex
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Real estate > Commercial property: Hampshire
- Public sector > Public sector
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media and entertainment