Boodle Hatfield LLP

Private client & tax

Nicola is a Partner in the firm's Private Wealth Disputes team. She specialises in trust and estate litigation for high and ultra-high net worth individuals and families, often involving complex capacity issues.

Nicola has particular expertise in claims for breach of trust, inter-family disputes in relation to the administration of estates and constructive trusts, Will disputes and setting aside transactions by reason of mental incapacity and undue influence. Her cases regularly involve multiple jurisdictions and recovering money held offshore.

She has enormous strength across the whole spectrum of Court of Protection work, with particular emphasis on contentious financial applications concerning the estates and businesses of those who may have lost capacity to manage them, financial abuse, gift and statutory Will disputes and the removal of attorneys and deputies.

She is particularly skilful and experienced at dealing with the dynamics of family disputes and adept at untangling the most difficult and challenging of cases.

Nicola qualified as a solicitor in 2012, and  joined Boodle Hatfield in 2023 from Irwin Mitchell.

University of East Anglia and University of Leiden