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Almas Patankar

Almas Patankar

Gorvins Solicitors, North West

Work Department

Wills, Trust and Probate

Position

Almas qualified in 2018 and joined Gorvins in 2020 as an Associate in the Wills, Trust and Probate Team. She is on track to become STEP qualified by the end of the year. Almas deals with difficult family situations and always aims to act in a sensitive yet efficient manner for all clients. She acts for a wide variety of clients and matters including providing advice on contentious Court of Protection, deputyships, asset protection and complex estate administration. Almas also advises on the use of trusts and set up of trusts within the will or during lifetime.

Career

Trained at Chafes Hague Lambert Solicitors and qualified in 2018.

Joined Gorvins Solicitors in 2020.

Memberships

Society of Trusts and estates practitioners (STEP)

Education

2012-2015 The University of Law Manchester (GDL & LPC)

2009-2012 The University of Nottingham (BSc Hons)

Personal

Providing advice and representation on an estate administration where the executors had a poor working relationship.

Conducting my own advocacy in a hearing successfully representing a client in a contentious Court of Protection matter.