Sally Cook > Weightmans LLP > Manchester, England > Lawyer Profile
Weightmans LLP Offices
No 1 Spinningfields
Hardman Square
MANCHESTER
M3 3EB
England
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Sally Cook
Position
Sally is a Legal Director in the Private Wealth team at Weightmans LLP and is based in the Manchester office.
Sally is a fully accredited member of STEP (the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners), the Law Society Private Client Section and The Association of Lifetime Lawyers (formerly Solicitors for the Elderly). Sally also sits on the Manchester Law Society’s Private Client section committee.
Sally qualified as a solicitor in 2008 and joined Weightmans LLP in 2018, having left her role as Head of the Private Client department at her previous firm.
Sally has practised solely in the field of Private Client since qualification and she has extensive experience in advising clients in relation to their estate planning, including the preparation of Wills, Inheritance Tax planning, the creation of and the onward administration of trusts and the preparation of Lasting Powers of Attorney. Sally has a particular interest in the administration of estates, and often deals with high value, complex estates on behalf of both professional and lay executors.
Lawyer Rankings
North West > Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
(Leading associates)Praised for its ‘knowledge, expertise and the team’s strength in depth‘, Weightmans LLP in Manchester acts for a broad range of high-net-worth clients in personal tax, trusts, and probate matters. The group has particular expertise advising business owners on structuring their personal affairs, such as succession planning and exit strategies, and trust administration and tax work, as well as handling cases with international elements. The practice is led by estate planning and tax mitigation expert Richard Bate, who is ‘fantastic with clients and commercially aware‘. The ‘personable, understanding and professional‘ Sally Cook, who advises clients on a broad range of issues in wills, trusts, and estates, is also a notable practitioner.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading associates North West > Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Personal tax, trusts and probate North West > Private client
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: defendant
- Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- Public sector > Education
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Private client > Family
- Public sector > Health
- Transport
- Employment > Pensions
- Insurance > Personal injury: defendant
- Insurance > Professional negligence
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Liverpool
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Employment > Employment
- Employment > Health and safety
- Public sector > Local government
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media and entertainment
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Real estate > Social housing
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Manchester
- Real estate > Commercial property: Liverpool
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Liverpool
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Manchester
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Real estate > Planning and environment
- Transport
- Real estate > Construction
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Crime: general crime and fraud
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Real estate > Commercial property: Manchester