Contentious trusts and probate

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Mark Stewart
Brodies LLP
Mark heads up the firm's Personal and Family Practice area. His principal areas of practice include succession planning, asset protection, trusts, executries and personal tax planning. Mark acts for a broad range of individual clients and trustees, including some of the wealthiest families in the country. They rely on him for his practical and technical advice and appreciate his ability to clearly communicate complex legal and tax matters. With 25 years of experience, Mark is very much a private client specialist. He believes that it is necessary to advise clients with an overall understanding of their unique objectives, assets, business interests and family relationships. Mark is based in the firm's Aberdeen and Inverness offices, although he is often spotted in all corners of the country, meeting clients or speaking at conferences.
Elaine Brailsford
Shepherd and Wedderburn
Elaine is a partner in commercial litigation, primarily focusing on commercial, financial and property related disputes. She has vast experience in the Court of Session, Sheriff Courts, Land Court and Lands Tribunal, and works closely with our real estate and banking teams. Elaine's work includes groundbreaking property litigation, including the cases on dilapidations and extraordinary repairs under a commercial lease, and a recent case for damages in relation to the encroachment by a major house builder into neighbouring land; a major litigation involving breach of warranty claims in a sale of a business, and the resulting professional negligence claim against solicitors; leading the team involved in complex pension litigation in relation to equalisation of rights; and a long running case involving an oil rig where claims exceed $65m, acting with our banking team she brought the first case of its kind in Scotland where an administration order was made in respect of a non-UK company with heritable assets in Scotland.
Peter Littlefield
Turcan Connell
Partner specialising in contentious and non-contentious probate, succession law, will drafting, trust law, tax planning, asset protection and executry administration.
Agnes Mallon
Gillespie Macandrew LLP
Agnes is a Partner in the Private Client Department and advises on a wide range of personal, legal and tax issues, including Wills, Trusts, Inheritance Tax and all aspects of wealth preservation.Agnes has a wide range of experience advising on contentious and complex estates and trusts, often with multi jurisdictional assets with specialist knowledge of judicial factories (borne from litigation claims). She also has substantial experience working on contentious cases regarding foreign assets.Agnes has a keen interest in advising on Succession Planning for Family Businesses, including farming businesses, and strongly believes that working closely with clients other Advisors achieve best results.
Richard McMeeken
Morton Fraser MacRoberts
Next Generation Partners
Junior partners with significant recognition from clients and peers in the market and key roles on multiple matters.
Angela McCulloch
Brodies LLP
Angela acts for trustees, executors, individuals and families. She advises on wills; estate and succession planning; the use, creation, administration and winding up of trusts; adult incapacity issues including preparation of powers of attorney; pensions; and the administration of executries. Angela is experienced in dealing with contentious trust and estate matters, including breach of trust, deadlock with trustees, legal rights claims and executry disputes.In addition to acting for trustees, executors, individuals and families, Angela also acts for large financial institutions on the private client law services provided to their clients and customers – our “volume” services. Unique in terms of volume and number of institutions involved, Angela manages the provision of Scottish private client law services to financial institutions and is experienced in supporting the customer experience for these organisations and operating to agreed service levels.
Eilidh Adams
Gillespie Macandrew LLP
Legal Director in the firm’s Private Client team specialising in tax and estate planning for individuals, families and trusts. Advises on lifetime and post death tax planning, Will drafting, trust and executry administration and asset protection. Also advises on Powers of Attorney and Living Wills.
Stephanie Hepburn
Shepherd and Wedderburn
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