Private Wealth Law - Reading and surrounds
Band 1
What the Team is Known For
Strengths
Field Seymour Parkes impresses across the board. The team provides a very good quality of work. I would not hesitate to recommend them.
The team is very caring of its clients, and it is very careful to make sure it gives the best advice, provided in a sympathetic way.
Field Seymour Parkes' strengths are its specialist knowledge and personable approach.
Notable practitioners
Katharine Riley represents private clients in contentious trust and estate matters. She also handles Court of Protection work.
Katharine Riley is experienced, technically brilliant and very personable.
Katherine is a very experienced and competent litigator. She is good at pressing matters forward and getting good outcomes, and she has good technical knowledge too.
Katharine is tenacious and works hard for her clients. She knows her clients' needs, she is pragmatic and she gets good resolutions.
Robert Crowther advises on complex private client matters, particularly on estate administration and succession planning.
Robert is very aware of what is happening in the wider private client area.
Robert Crowther is an excellent lawyer who puts commerciality at the forefront.
Ben Oliver is a partner in the team with expertise advising on inheritance tax planning and the creation of trusts and wills.
Ben is extremely thoughtful, hard-working and technically very strong. He always brings new perspectives and interesting ideas to the table that are in his clients' best interests.
Susan Vandersteen advises on wills, trusts and estates. She has particular experience advising vulnerable clients on asset protection.
Susan Vandersteen provides excellent advice.
