Richard Bate > Weightmans LLP > Manchester, England > Lawyer Profile
Weightmans LLP Offices
No 1 Spinningfields
Hardman Square
MANCHESTER
M3 3EB
England
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Richard Bate
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Richard leads the wills, trusts, and estates team nationally. He is a full member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners and the Law Society private client section. He has broad experience of working with clients from various backgrounds having worked in large commercial practices and smaller high street firms.
Richard advises clients on all aspects of estate planning including wills, trusts, family investment companies and probate matters. He has a particular specialism in tax mitigation and assisting business owners and those with more complicated family arrangements and asset structures with succession planning and wealth protection. He is a professional trustee on numerous family trusts, acts as an attorney for elderly clients and has been appointed by the High Court as an independent administrator in complex contentious Probate matters.
Richard works closely with the firm’s Owner Managed Business and family teams and often with accountants and independent financial advisors to ensure that clients receive broad based holistic advice.
Richard is a regular presenter of estate planning seminars for companies and local authorities. He is used to working with lawyers in different jurisdictions to achieve clients’ objectives in terms of their worldwide estate.
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Lawyer Rankings
North West > Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
(Leading individuals)Possessing a broad national footprint and the Legalink network to supplement complex cross-border estates work, Weightmans LLP is geared to act on a diverse range of wills, trusts and probate matters. The firm is known for the trusted counsel it provides to clients in the corporate, sport and entertainment sectors pertaining estate and trust management, but also bolsters its full service offering through expertise in Court of Protection work, alternative investment vehicle structures, and establishing philanthropic endeavours. National and Manchester team head Richard Bate is a go-to for tax mitigation, wealth protection, and family trusts advice, and also competently acts for the interests of disabled and vulnerable individuals. Nina Sperring, who leads the Liverpool office and joined from FDR Law in February 2022, has a broad private client practice and is praised for her expertise in cross-border matters and innovative tax planning, while the ‘technical’ Sally Cook advises domiciles and non-domiciles on estate management, succession planning and tax mitigation. Lorraine Wilson is also active in the practice and has established strength in cross-border matters and the establishment of trusts.
London > Private client > Court of protection
Weightmans LLP fields an excellent national team, which covers a wide range of health & welfare, as well as property & financial affairs matters. It acts for a large number of local authorities, NHS Trusts and private health and social care providers. Areas of expertise span advising on consent to medical treatment, the overlap between the Mental Health Act/Mental Capacity Act, and issues surrounding safeguarding. At the helm are Simon Goacher, Richard Jolly, Richard Bate and Sarah Louise Walker.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading individuals 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
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- Public sector > Education
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Private client > Family
- Public sector > Health
- Employment > Health and safety
- Employment > Pensions
- Insurance > Personal injury: defendant
- Insurance > Professional negligence
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Liverpool
- Employment > Employment
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Public sector > Local government
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media and entertainment
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Real estate > Social housing
- Transport
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Manchester
- Real estate > Commercial property: Liverpool
- Real estate > Construction
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Liverpool
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Manchester
- Real estate > Planning and environment
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Real estate > Commercial property: Manchester
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Crime: general crime and fraud