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Nasima Ansary

Nasima Ansary

Nasima advises on all aspects of estates and trust litigation including challenges to the validity of wills, applications for rectification and interpretation of testamentary documents, Inheritance Act claims, actions against trustee and executors including applications for accounts and removal and replacement of PRs, disputes between executors including applications in the administration process and disputes relating to the beneficial ownership of property. Nasima also advises attorneys and families in relation to property and financial affairs disputes and challenges to lifetime gifts, both before and after death.
Faye Cook

Faye Cook

Faye is an experienced Corporate / M&A Partner who specialises in all aspects of corporate transactions. She has particular expertise in domestic and cross-border M&A (both sale-side and buy-side), EOTs, corporate restructuring, succession / exit planning, Management Buy-outs / Buy-ins and general corporate advisory work. Faye acts for a full range of corporate clients in the national mid-market from private limited companies to owner-managed businesses and private equity investors. Her approach is to work closely with her clients from the early stages of a transaction, and work collaboratively with the other advisors and stakeholders involved in order to drive the project smoothly and efficiently to a successful completion.
James Cradick

James Cradick

James is a recognised expert advising a multinational client base in relation to a broad range of commercial disputes. Described as an ‘experienced and effective litigator’ he specialises in arbitration and commercial litigation arising in respect to sale and purchase contracts, supply chain and distribution issues, disputes and risk management in the logistics, insurance, shipping and commodities sectors. He regularly acts in a wide range of high value general business disputes, many of which are cross-border. He jointly heads the firm’s Transport & Logistics team and is a former barrister retaining higher rights of audience.
Catherine Fuller

Catherine Fuller

Catherine is a partner in the highly regarded Court of Protection team at Thomson Snell and Passmore, and a Director in the firm's trust corporation. She specialises in deputyship work with particular experience in complex brain injury cases. She manages high value clinical negligence and personal injury damages awards on behalf of clients and deals with all aspects of Court of Protection work, including gift and statutory will applications. Rosie acts as an expert witness and prepares reports for litigation lawyers, commenting on costs in Court of Protection cases.
Fiona Higgott

Fiona Higgott

Fiona is a Partner at Thomson Snell & Passmore and is a member of the Wills, Estate & Tax Planning Team. She helps clients with all aspects of estate work including lifetime planning, the preparation of wills and post-death work.Fiona has a particular interest in the rural community, having come from a farming family herself, so specialises in assisting farming clients with structuring and passing on their estate in a tax efficient manner, as well as advising on farm partnership agreements
Nicholas Horton

Nicholas Horton

Head of Will, Trust & Estate DisputesNick specialises in heavyweight cases where there are disputes relating to wills, trusts and estates, and in related professional negligence matters. He has excellent working relationships with colleagues in the firm’s Wills, Estate & Tax Planning team, the firm’s Probate team and the firm’s Trust Management team, collaborating with them on multiple matters including Independent Estate Administrations where relationships between parties are often strained. He also has wide-ranging contacts with contentious trust and probate lawyers in other firms, with specialist counsel and with expert witnesses in this field.
Kate Jardine

Kate Jardine

Kate is an experienced planning solicitor who leads the firm’s Planning practice, working alongside colleagues in Real Estate, Dispute Resolution and Residential Property & Conveyancing to provide an all-round service to clients across the firm. She is part of our Development Team, a tailored service to provide the industry with all its legal needs. She is also a member of the firm’s Construction Sector and Agricultural Sector, advising key clients in those sectors on planning-related matters.
Chris Kirby-Turner

Chris Kirby-Turner

Chris leads on the team’s dispute resolution, litigation and adjudication matters. His practice encompasses all stages of construction disputes from initial advisory work and input on ongoing commercial negotiations on live projects through to complex adjudications and multi-party claims in the Technology & Construction Court (TCC). He has considerable experience in devising and implementing effective strategies to resolve disputes at an early stage, and regularly resolves complex disputes by way of mediation.
Esther Lee

Esther Lee

Esther is a Partner specialising in probate and estate administration and is also part of the Agriculture & Rural Affairs sector team, and has particular expertise in agricultural estates.  Esther advises farmers and land owners in connection with passing on their estate in a tax efficient manner and on farm partnership agreements. With over 20 years’ experience Esther has a broad range of understanding for all areas of private client work and also assists her clients with their lifetime estate planning.
Helen Maddison-White

Helen Maddison-White

Helen specialises in all types of estate administration, inheritance tax and grant applications. She is a Partner in the Estates, Tax & Succession Team with a broad wealth of knowledge in private client work.In addition, Helen acts on behalf of the Thomson Snell & Passmore Trust Corporation Ltd as an Independent Administrator, in cases where for a variety of reasons, the personal representatives are either unable or are unwilling to act, often against a challenging back drop of testing family dynamics.
Katherine Morgan

Katherine Morgan

Katherine is an experienced real estate solicitor at Thomson Snell & Passmore. She has more than 14 years’ experience advising on all aspects of real estate transactions. This includes advising and assisting clients in the industrial warehouse, office and commercial waste sectors, covering all aspects of general and strategic portfolio management; lettings; lease renewals; securitisation and investment and commercial development; and acquisitions and disposals. Katherine has considerable experience in real estate finance matters, acting for major UK lenders and clearing banks and in particular, dealing with development finance transactions.
Anthony Morton

Anthony Morton

Anthony is a banking and finance lawyer who has significant expertise in Corporate M&A and Real Estate Finance. He has extensive experience of working with lenders and borrowers across a range of complex banking and finance transactions both domestic and international. He advises on work across the capital structure including corporate finance, leveraged acquisition finance, asset-based lending, structured finance, debt finance, secured lending, refinancings, restructurings, MBOs and private equity.
Nicole Priestley

Nicole Priestley

Nicole is a partner in the Real Estate Finance team and works with a number of institutional lenders in respect of development and bridging loan facilities ranging in size and scope. The nature of the work requires knowledge and expertise in property, planning, construction and corporate matters, and often input from other departments within the firm which Nicole manages and leads. The work often requires a commercial and risk based analysis of any matters that may arise during the course of a transaction, along with a solution based approach, in order to provide advice to clients that is thorough and accurate, but at the same time concise, along with options to allow clients to make informed decisions that are appropriate for their business.
Helen Stewart

Helen Stewart

Helen is an experienced Private Client Partner who leads the Probate team as part of the Estates, Tax & Succession team. With over 25 years’ experience covering a broad range of Private Client work including contentious estates.Helen’s experience has led her to be panel listed as an Independent Administrator where she is appointed to deal with complex and often fractious estates. She deals with and leads on high net worth estates including multijurisdictional assets and estates that include domicile issues. Helen enjoys dealing with Agricultural and Business estates where relief claims have to be negotiated with HMRC-IHT.
Joanne Wright

Joanne Wright

Joanne is an experienced real estate Partner who leads the portfolio asset management team at Thomson Snell & Passmore. She has more than 20 years’ experience advising on all aspects of real estate transactions, working alongside our real estate dispute resolution team. This includes advising and assisting clients in the motor retail, office, retail and logistics and warehouse sectors, covering all aspects of general and strategic portfolio management; lettings; lease renewals; securitisation and investment and commercial development; and acquisitions and disposals.Joanne leads the corporate support Real Estate team working closely with the firm’s corporate M&A and banking & finance teams in providing corporate support on property aspects to clients undertaking corporate acquisitions or disposals. Joanne routinely assists the corporate M&A team on complex property/large property portfolio M&A transactions in the corporate mid-market space.