David Catchpole > Mills & Reeve LLP > Norwich, England > Lawyer Profile

Mills & Reeve LLP handles contentious matters in ‘a highly effective, but calm, measured and practical way’. Practice head David Catchpole in Norwich takes the lead role in all of the firm’s complex and high-value matters, which frequently involve assets in excess of £10m; he is ‘a careful, thoughtful and conscientious solicitor who asks the right questions’. Associate James Russ in Cambridge is ‘hardworking, has a considered manner and is attentive-to-details’. The majority of the team are members of ACTAPS and the cohort is described as being ‘really specialist and deeply involved in estate and trusts disputes, and so offers real expertise and a deep understanding‘. Partner Lucinda Brown joined from BDB Pitmans in late 2023.

Mills & Reeve LLP has an ‘experienced specialist team that forms part of a high quality full service firm with a national reach’. It is ably led by Norwich-based David Catchpole , Manchester/Leeds-based Simon Pedley, and Lucy Howard who is at the Birmingham office. It is skilled at handling a diverse range of complex and high-value disputes spanning actions involving trustees and executors, and issues over the validity of wills. It also acts for a number of charities in a range of contested legacy disputes.