Gillian Brown > Blackadders LLP > Glasgow, United Kingdom > Lawyer Profile
Blackadders LLP Offices
53 Bothwell Street
GLASGOW
G2 6TS
United Kingdom
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Gillian Brown
Work Department
Private Client
Position
Partner
Career
Gillian is experienced in a broad range of private client matters including Adults with Incapacity, Later Life, Wealth Management & Tax, Wills, Trust & Estates.
Gillian has a particular interest in helping, older, infirm and disabled clients. She combines technical expertise with a genuine interest in this often under-supported sector, offering professional, caring advice.
Work Highlights:
- Advising on and establishing trusts, with a special interest in Trusts for beneficiaries who are vulnerable and/or lack capacity and advising families on the use and administration of these Trusts.
- Advising other firms and solicitors on matters relating to incapacity issues and providing opinions on such matters.
- Preparing reports for personal injury compensation claims, to be lodged in support of and to facilitate settlement of claims, thereafter setting up the trust and supervising administration of the trust including engaging with the adult and family/carers to agree care plan etc.
- Advise clients on Wills and Powers of Attorneys, Inheritance Tax Planning .
- I have acted as financial guardian as an approved provider of Legal Services for a Local Authority for 10 years and advise on how applications should be drafted in complex and/or unusual cases.
Memberships
- Accredited by the Law Society of Scotland in incapacity and mental disability law (since 2013).
Lawyer Rankings
Scotland > Private client > Personal tax, trusts and executries
With a strong presence in the north of Scotland, the private client practice at Blackadders LLP acts for a wide range of clients, including individuals, trustees, executors and businesses. The group handles the full range of tax, trusts and executries issues and has a particularly strong personal wealth offering. Laura McDowall and Gillian Brown jointly head the practice, which also includes Johnston Clark and Dale Ross. The team strengthened its estates and trusts planning and administration capabilities with the arrival of Karen Phillips from Balfour+Manson LLP in 2022.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Commercial property: elsewhere in Scotland
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: elsewhere in Scotland
- Private client > Family
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and executries
- Employment > Employment
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Real estate > Commercial property: Edinburgh and Glasgow
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Edinburgh and Glasgow