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Private wealth and probate

Amy Proferes

Amy Proferes

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Supported by an ‘excellent’ clerking team, members of Serle Court regularly represent clients in major litigation. Thomas Fletcher acts unled against Richard Wilson KC and Oliver Jones in JTC Employer Solutions Trustee v Garnett, a High Court claim seeking the rescission of trust appointments on the grounds of mistake. Amy Proferes is acting in the factual complex Re Klein, a probate case where the estate was tied up in shareholdings in fifteen companies. Jonathan Harris KC is instructed in Kea Investments v Wikeley Family Trustee, where his client was able to obtain rare anti-enforcement injunctions in this case concerning an allegedly fraudulent agreement - the matter involved cross-border litigaiton involving New Zealand.
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Position

Amy has a broad commercial Chancery practice and appears regularly in the County Courts and High Court, primarily unled. She has particular interests in property, wills and probate, and civil fraud, and is experienced in dealing with cases where these areas overlap. She is ranked as a leading junior in Private Client: Trusts and Probate by Legal 500.

Before coming to the Bar, Amy worked at a mergers and acquisitions advisory firm specialising in aerospace and industrials, following postgraduate studies in History & Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University.

Amy is an advocacy tutor at Lincoln's Inn and also helps run the Inn's debating society.

Career

Called 2012, Lincoln’s Inn.

Memberships

Chancery Bar Association; Property Bar Association; Young Fraud Lawyers’ Association.

Education

Framingham High School; Harvard University (1996 BA Sociology (cum laude)); School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (1997 MA Islamic Art and Archaeology – Merit); Harvard University (1999 MA Middle Eastern Studies; 1999-2004 Doctoral work in History and Middle Eastern studies); Birkbeck, University of London (2010 Accelerated LLB – First); City University (BPTC - Very Competent).

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Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • 'Arron Snipe in particular has been a pleasure to work with - always available, thorough and goes above and beyond to assist.'
  • 'Serle is a top class set in the chancery field, with some of the most able practitioners.'
  • 'The chambers has a very good reputation for trust and probate litigation and for general commercial litigation.'
  • 'Excellent clerking team.'
  • 'The set has strength in depth in private client work, with a focus on high-value and offshore work.'
  • 'Serle Court are a very strong set and have a number of the best barristers in the field. They are particularly impressive in those cases involving commercial, offshore or more complex structures.'
  • 'Serle Court is the go to and class-defining, excellent across the board.'
  • 'The clerks are universally excellent. Responsive and knowledgeable.'