Brodies LLP‘s team acts for various institutional and high-net worth individual clients in a range of disputes relating to issues surrounding wills, executorship, cohabitation, trusts, and more. Practice head Mark Stewart handles matters relating to estates, trusts, executries, tax and succession planning. Angela McCulloch’s workload includes advising on the winding up of complex estates and the management of family trusts. Alan Barr has tax planning expertise, Richard Pike‘s reach spans England, the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey, and associate James Reekie represents clients at domestic court and in international arbitration contexts.
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- 'Angela McCulloch- Partner. She listens to our family situation and needs with understanding and suggests practical solutions.'
- ‘Richard Pike is excellent at what he does, he is very good with clients and offers practical solutions - I am always happy to refer work on to him where I am unable to act or need an expert opinion because I know any clients I refer on will be in safe hands and will receive excellent advice.'
- ‘The team has a lot of expertise to draw from on both the private client and litigation aspects, which is key to any contentious trust/probate matter, and it works very well collaboratively.'
- ‘Richard Pike is an incredibly experienced and talented trusts and probate litigator on English matters.’
- ‘Richard Pike is a great partner - very good on the law, pragmatic, and a pleasure to work with.’
- ‘Richard Pike has unique and impressive knowledge of both Scottish and English contentious trust and probate issues.’
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James Reekie
Practice head
Mark Stewart
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Angela McCulloch; Alan Barr; Richard Pike; James Reekie