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Withers LLP Offices

Withers LLP
20 Old Bailey
LONDON
EC4M 7AN
England
Visit website +44 20 7597 6364 +44 20 7597 6543

Living Wage

Dawn Goodman

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+4420 7597 6014 [email protected]

Work Department

Trust, estate and inheritance disputes.

Position

Partner.

Dawn has a wealth of experience litigating and working proactively with wealth-holding structures across the trust world, Europe, South America, Russia & CIS and the Middle East. She is tri-qualified (England & Wales, BVI and Eire) and acts in and advises on litigation spanning the whole range of trust and succession issues, from prophylactic litigation to the most hostile of cross border and multi jurisdiction cases. Previously a divorce lawyer, she also advises trustees and beneficiaries caught up in divorce proceedings. Garnering her experience as a litigator and fiduciary for a UNHW family, Dawn advises families, family offices and businesses, trustees and other power holders on governance and reduction and management of fiduciary risk. She applies her understanding of conflicts of laws, geopolitical risk, family tensions and succession to wealth and businesses to help clients create or restructure robust trust and succession vehicles with sufficient flexibility to continue through to succeeding generations.

Career

Publications
International Trusts and Divorce Litigation Third Edition, 2019 (Co-author)
Probate Disputes and Remedies Third Edition, 2014 (Co-author)

Languages

Reasonable French

Memberships

STEP; and
ACTAPS.

Lawyer Rankings

London > Private client > Contentious trusts and probate

(Hall of Fame)

Dawn Goodman – Withers LLP

Withers LLP ‘is at the top of the tree in terms of private client work and trust related matters. It has a wealth of experienced lawyers in its ranks and a well-earned reputation for being very client focused and diligent’. It has ‘great strength in depth in its lawyer bench’. Led by Suzanne Todd, it has continued to attract a variety of complex and high-value cases from around the globe. The entire team is adept at handling cross-border and complicated trusts, estate, inheritance, and Court of Protection disputes. It has a solid grounding in charity legacy disputes, and in domestic work too. Paul Hewitt continues to be recognised as one of the top contentious trusts and probate practitioners, along with Steven Kempster. Stephen Richards is increasingly advising families of which a vulnerable member, often with cognitive decline, has suffered financial abuse. Natasha Stourton has a particular interest in the succession and trusteeship of digital assets and cryptocurrencies. Senior Counsel Dawn Goodman is recommended, along with Alice Tomlin, Sarah Aughwane, and Alexandra Dix.

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