About

Provided by Hall & Wilcox

Our Private Clients team advise business owners, high net worth individuals and families. We are mindful of the often emotional nature of dealing with a client’s personal affairs and are skilled at navigating all relevant issues with sensitivity to achieve the desired and appropriate outcomes.

Our team’s extensive experience includes:

  • preparing or updating estate and succession planning documents
  • advising on trusts, including establishing trusts, continuing administration, dealing with succession of control of trusts, managing special disability trusts, undertaking trust deed reviews, and advising on trust interpretation and trust disputes
  • preparing business succession planning, including by way of sale and inter-generational transfer, buy sell agreements and shareholder/unitholder agreements
  • administering estates (probate and letters of administration)
  • resolving private client disputes, including trust disputes and claims for further provision to be made out of the estate of a deceased person
  • advising on asset protection structuring to minimise the exposure of assets to creditors and the Family Court
  • advising on charity and philanthropy, including establishing and administering charitable trusts and foundations
  • advising on superannuation and taxation
  • advising on migration and international wealth.

Our team also work closely with other teams within the firm including financial services, tax, dispute resolution, and property.

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Private Wealth Law - Australia

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What the Team is Known For

Hall & Wilcox advises high net worth clients on trust and estate matters. Its lawyers regularly assist with business succession planning, estate administration and charitable giving strategies.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Emma Woolley
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Emma Woolley
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Emma Woolley has broad expertise in contentious and non-contentious estate, trust and family business matters. She also advises on tax and offshore trusts.

Emma is just a superb intellectual and professional technical expert. She is a leader in her field.

She understands the nature of the business and is willing to make a good outcome for the client.

James Whiley
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James Whiley
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James Whiley provides trust and estate planning advice at both a domestic and international level. He also engages in tax work.

James is very professional, extremely knowledgeable, and very proactive and energetic.

He is a very capable and able lawyer. He does an awful lot in the Australia/UK cross-border planning space. He seems to be very well liked and forms strong relationships with his clients.

William Moore
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William Moore
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William Moore advises on contentious and non-contentious estate matters. He also acts on tax, trusts and succession planning issues.

He's very good at understanding the problem and presents it in a simple way to the clients.

William takes clients' situations into account. He's not cookie-cutter. He provides good, sound advice.

Ranked Individuals at
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Emma Woolley
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Emma Woolley
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James Whiley
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James Whiley
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Band 2
William Moore
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William Moore
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Band 2

Members

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Anna-Lisa Ryan

Arfa Shoukat

Casey Bombara

Claire Hawke-Gundill

Clare Hesbrook

Erin Brown

Hannah Willis

Isabella Urso

James Bon

Jana Sosner

Juliet O'Brien

Laura Hanrahan

McLane Edinger

Olivia Hunt

Sam Baring

William Moore

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