Brodies LLP

Mark Stewart

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.

Angela McCulloch

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.