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Private Wealth: Trusts - UK
Individual Editorial
James MacDougald provides comprehensive trust advice to various clients and has specific expertise in estate administration and variations of trust. He has also acquired significant offshore expertise and has acted for parties in several key jurisdictions.
Strengths
A delightful barrister, who is wise beyond his year and always quick to assist.
He is highly practical, extremely nice to deal with and brilliant with the client.
He is technically excellent and his advocacy is very good.
James is a considered, measured and very bright barrister with a brilliant memory, who has a great sense of strategy. He never lets you down and possesses great drafting skills. .
James is first class. He is unflappable, incredibly user-friendly and someone who deals with matters in a very timely fashion.