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Irwin Mitchell Offices

Irwin Mitchell
The Pinnacle
STATION WAY
CRAWLEY, WEST SUSSEX
RH10 1JH
England
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Rose Macfarlane

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0808 291 3926 rose.macfarlane@irwinmitchell.com

Work Department

Personal Tax, Trusts and Probate

Position

Legal 500 Rising Star and Senior Associate Solicitor, Rose joined IM in January 2020 from another Tier 1 private client in the South East, to assist in the leadership and growth of Irwin Mitchell’s Gatwick private client team. The team has doubled in size since.

 

Rose enjoys advising a wide range of clients, often business owners and entrepreneurs and those with complex assets, some with international elements. She advises on all aspects of asset protection, succession and tax planning using Wills, lifetime giving, trusts, and enjoys working with clients’ professional advisers and corporate and tax colleagues to achieve holistic planning aims.

 

Rose has a strong reputation as a trust specialist amongst her colleagues, peers and referrers, acting as or advising trustees of dynastic family trusts, as well as trusts for business assets. She is a general legal resource for her family office clients, and is honoured to be personally appointed to the trusted roles of executor, trustee and attorney for clients.

 

Law is Rose’s second career, her first being in film, music video and commercials production. She particularly appreciates working with junior lawyers, encouraging and supporting their growth and development.

Lawyer Rankings

South East > Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Kent, Surrey, Sussex

(Rising stars)

Rose Macfarlane   – Irwin Mitchell

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.

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