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JMW Solicitors LLP Offices

JMW Solicitors LLP
1 BYROM PLACE
SPINNINGFIELDS
MANCHESTER
M3 3HG
England
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Joe Cobb

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Work Department

Private Client

Position

Partner & Head of Private Client

Joe joined JMW in July 2019 in the Private Client Department, having spent ten years at Addleshaw Goddard. His expertise relates to providing tax, estate and succession planning to ultra-high net worth individuals, institutional clients and entrepreneurs, with a focus on owner-managed businesses and corporate vehicles. He also has extensive experience advising on trust formation and administration, high value and international estate administration, and contentions trusts and estates.

Career

JMW Solicitors (2019-Present):

Head of Private Client (2021-)

Partner (2019-)

Addleshaw Goddard (2009-2019):

 

Trainee Solicitor (2009-2011)

Associate (2011-2018)

Managing Associate (2018-2019)

Languages

Spanish (conversational)

Memberships

The Society of Trusts and Estates Practitioners (Full Member)

Education

The University of Manchester, LLB (2005-2008), BPP Law School, LPC (2008-2009)

Leisure

Foreign travel and plenty of sport!

Lawyer Rankings

North West > Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate

(Leading partners)

Joe Cobb –JMW Solicitors LLP

JMW Solicitors LLP in Manchester provides specialist private client advice to high and ultra-high-net-worth clients, with particular expertise in family investment companies, trust planning, and restructuring, and cases involving multi-jurisdictional assets. The firm also has a knowledgeable Court of Protection group that handles all types of deputyship issues, including local authority cases, investigations, and expert witness work. The practice is co-led by the ‘fantastic’ Joe Cobb, who is an expert in providing tax, estate, and succession planning advice to clients, and particularly to owner-managed businesses and corporate vehicles, and Megan Christie-Copeland, who heads the Court of Protection department and ‘has expert knowledge in the best practice around deputyships’. Other notable practitioners include the ‘knowledgeable, highly responsive and very client focused‘ Andrew Cusworth, who specialises in a broad range of work relating to individuals who lack mental capacity, and Rebecca Brown, who advises on all aspects of mental capacity work.’

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