Sarah Phillips > Irwin Mitchell > Reading, England > Lawyer Profile

Irwin Mitchell
DAVIDSON HOUSE
KING'S ROAD
RG1 3EU
England

Work Department

Lifestyle & Estate Planning

Position

Partner

Career

Sarah is the Regional Managing Partner for Irwin Mitchell’s Reading and Newbury offices, where she also heads up the local private client team.

She helps individuals and their families with all aspects of succession, tax and asset protection planning. This includes advice on wills, inheritance tax, capital gains tax, trusts, probate, powers of attorney and Court of Protection matters.

Whether it’s guiding clients through their options to maximise wealth for themselves and the next generation or helping them through the emotional time of bereavement or poor health, Sarah’s approach is refreshingly ‘unstuffy’, always professional, hopefully with a few smiles along the way and focussed on building long term relationships as a trusted adviser.

She works closely with other private client professionals, such as financial advisers, accountants and wealth managers, to complement the advice and services they give their clients

Memberships

STEP; the Private Client Section of the Law Society; Solicitors For The Elderly; The Notaries Society.

Education

Chiltern Edge School, Reading (1992); The Henley College, Henley-On-Thames (A levels, 1994); University of Leicester (LLB Law and French Law, 1998); Nottingham Law School (Legal Practice Course, 1999); University of Cambridge (Notarial Practice Postgraduate Diploma, 2009).

Leisure

Travel, general fitness, photography.

Lawyer Rankings

South East > Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40

Sarah Phillips leads the Thames Valley private client offering at Irwin Mitchell and, as the point of contact for all things related to inter-generational wealth, has a robust track record for representing high-net-worth individuals, alongside business and C-suite executives. ‘Brilliant legal mind’ Stewart Stretton-Hill  focuses on advising high net-worth individuals on legal, tax and practical issues in diminished mental capacity cases – he is the firm’s national lead for Later Life and chairs the elderly and vulnerable client technical committee. Sarah Paton advises on complex wills, trusts and wealth protection matters.