Ayesha Brown > Ashtons Legal > Bury St Edmunds, England > Lawyer Profile

Ashtons Legal
THE LONG BARN
Fornham Business Court, Fornham St Martin
BURY ST EDMUNDS, SUFFOLK
IP31 1SL
England

Work Department

Agriculture and Estates

Position

Partner

Career

Ayesha is a Partner within our Agricultural and Estates team.

She has more than 25 years of industry experience and offers comprehensive and expert advice on all aspects of private client work, focussing on those within the agricultural and rural community on Estate and Succession Planning, Wills, Trusts and Powers of Attorney. She advises a vast array of clients with a keen focus on the high-level succession planning that often concerns business owners with complex family arrangements.

Ayesha is committed to providing quality legal advice and exceptional client care. She is committed to building lasting relationships with her clients and professional advisors and provides practical, comprehensive support to achieve the best possible outcome.

She is a fully accredited member of STEP, the Association of Lifetime Lawyers (formerly known as the Solicitors for the Elderly), a Fellow of the Agricultural Law Association, and a Dementia Friend.

Ayesha is ranked as a Recommended Lawyer in the Legal 500, with reviews including:

“Ayesha epitomises all I would expect from a solicitor – she was pleasant, courteous and thoroughly knowledgeable in advising me on how to draft my Will. I feel confident that my affairs are in safe hands, and I know I can approach her by telephone or email should I have any further queries.”

“Ayesha has worked with me to make the complex and stressful executorship, which I am administering, as simple and straightforward as possible and at all times makes sure that my personal position is protected. She has considerable sympathy in relating to particular issues and my personal concerns, and I have always felt that she is “on my side”. She has been at pains to ensure that costs relating to my case are kept to a minimum. I count myself very fortunate to have found Ayesha to help me with my difficult executorship.”

Lawyer Rankings

East Anglia > Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: elsewhere in East Anglia

Roythornes Solicitors hired Tim Galloway from Birketts LLP in March 2022 to lead its private client practice from its Alconbury office, which works with offices across the East Midlands to advise on numerous high-value estates. Galloway frequently assists with estates with assets in excess of £10m. The team is noted as being ‘private and discreet‘ and as providing ‘first-class’ advice. Senior associate Ayesha Brown ‘always makes every effort to understand the needs of the client’, whilst associate Joseph Stoehr is described as ‘dynamic, yet thoughtful and mature’.