Edwin Coe LLP handles high-value, complex, and often cross-border trust and probate disputes for high-net-worth clients, including matters involving offshore structures and international estates. Practice head Shams Rahman leads on complex, high-value cross-border trust and estate disputes, including 1975 Act, beneficial ownership, and asset-tracing and freezing order cases. Joanna Osborne has been key in significant trusts litigation, and Harriet Turner, who joined from Russell-Cooke LLP in December 2025, has assisted in TOLATA matters.
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Key clients
- Virtue Trustees (Switzerland) AG
- Olga Scherbakova and Alexander Scherbakov
Work highlights
Advised a Swiss trust company on a £19m+ claim over a valuable London property held by a BVI trust set up by VT to hold the Property.
Advised individuals on a high-profile case for two individuals who were the Adult Children defendants in complex claims relating to the cross-border estate of their late father concerning considerable assets held in offshore trusts.
Practice head
Shams Rahman
Other key lawyers
Joanna Osborne; Harriet Turner