DWF
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DWF has a comprehensive contentious trusts and probate offering, enabling the team to advise trustee companies, private banks, and charitable trusts on a wide range of complex trusts and probate issues. The practice group is collectively led by a trio of experienced individuals: Daniel Williams, Ian Sydenham, and Paul Maddock. Williams has significant experience in high-value and international probate disputes relating to will validity and Inheritance Act claims, Sydenham specialises in advising high-net-worth individuals, as well as corporate entities, and Liverpool-based Maddock advises on the rectification and removal of executor claims. Other key members of the team include Chris Gee and Shaun Johnson, and their practices encompass all areas of trusts and probate work.
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Key clients
- Lloyds Bank plc
- ARAG Legal Expenses Insurer
Work highlights
Advising a beneficiary and executor on an inheritance act claim brought by the deceased's wife in respect of an estate worth c.£10m, which, due to the terms of the deceased's will, is to be left to a discretionary trust.