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Tanner De Witt

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Eddie Look and Joanne Brown jointly lead the private client, family and wills, probate and trusts offering at Tanner De Witt. The firm spans expertise across non-contentious estate planning, cross-border contentious probate and estate administration. Look acts for high-net-worth individuals and families in a wide array of business and family wealth planning issues. Brown has extensive experience in family matters, in particular those with a cross-border element, and is also an expert in ADR. Pamela Mak is a skilled commercial litigator and routinely handles high-value, cross-border shareholders disputes.
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Testimonials

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  • ‘Considering this is a large firm with a huge client base, I cannot express enough how every team member we were involved with treated us with courtesy and competence, making our experience feel like we were the only clients where nothing was too much effort.'

  • 'Eddie Look always made time to respond to our queries.'

  • 'The qualities I valued in Eddie Look were flexibility to fit our very individual needs, kindness and human understanding in dealing with our situation, a thorough knowledge of our situation and most of all very clear, easy-to-understand explanations of legal matters. It never felt like anything was too much trouble for him, however small.'

  • 'All of the team members we had the pleasure of working with were everything I could have hoped for in a law firm.'

Work highlights

Acting for the intended administrator of a high-value estate, valued at approximately HK$100 million, in a contentious probate dispute that interplays between pre-handover Chinese customary law, private international law, and modern Hong Kong probate principles.

Practice head

Eddie Look; Joanne Brown

Other key lawyers

Pamela Mak