Private Wealth Disputes
High Net Worth Guide 2024 : London (Firms)
Band 1
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Provided by Boodle Hatfield LLP
Boodle Hatfield's award-winning private wealth disputes team specialises in high value and complex disputes, including contentious trusts and estates matters. The team provides bespoke strategic advice alongside a full dispute resolution practice. The team has extensive experience working in key trust jurisdictions around the world and navigating complex cross border disputes.
Chambers Review
Boodle Hatfield's private wealth litigators are regularly involved in international as well as domestic trust and estate matters.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Boodle Hatfield are very client-focused and very alive to getting the best result for their clients. The team are strategic and sensible."
"They offer a Rolls-Royce service."
"The team has got some top-quality practitioners. They are very sensible, always have their eye on the goal, are very outcome-focused and are easy to work with."
"Boodle Hatfield are very client-focused and very alive to getting the best result for their clients. The team are strategic and sensible."
"They offer a Rolls-Royce service."
"The team has got some top-quality practitioners. They are very sensible, always have their eye on the goal, are very outcome-focused and are easy to work with."
Notable Practitioners
Andrea Zavos is the firm's senior partner. She is a respected litigator who draws on her considerable experience in the field when handling high-value trusts work.
"She is very well respected in this space and she is very technical in her approach to matters."
"She's very good at building relationships and exercising good judgement."
"She is so easy to deal with, so down to earth, and her advice is really no-nonsense. I feel very calm if I refer business to her that it will be well looked after."
Mark Lindley advises fiduciaries, individuals and families on offshore and onshore trust and estate disputes.
"Mark is fabulous, really capable, very personable, and has a really good mix of technical ability and good relationship skills."
"He's very reasonable, easy to deal with and very commercial. He clearly knows his way round a complex trust case."
Simon Rylatt assists clients with both contentious and non-contentious private wealth mandates. He advises on domestic and international matters.
"Simon is very thorough and has great judgement."
"He's well organised, intelligent and commercially astute, He's got a good way with clients and is conscientious."
Nicola Bushby specialises in trust and estate litigation. She regularly handles matters that involve capacity and undue influence elements, and she also assists with Court of Protection cases.
"Nicola is incredibly committed to her clients. She is able to remain calm in stressful scenarios. She understands the practice and procedure of the Court of Protection exceptionally well."
"The work that she does is excellent. She is strong in cases involving a Court of Protection element. She is really effective."