
Private Wealth Law
High Net Worth Guide 2025 : Australia
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About
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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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Strengths
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They are so flexible. They are my number one choice law firm.
Private Wealth Law respondentHigh Net WorthTheir solutions and ability to navigate through challenges help preserve and transition substantial wealth and interests across generations.
Private Wealth Law respondentHigh Net WorthIn my view, the private client team is the best contested wills, deceased estates and trusts team in Western Australia.
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Notable Practitioners
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Band 1 
Band 1 
Emma Woolley
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.
Private Wealth Law respondentHigh Net WorthShe understands the nature of the business and is willing to make a good outcome for the client.
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Band 2 
Band 2 
James Whiley
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.
Private Wealth Law respondentHigh Net WorthHe 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.
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Band 2 
Band 2 
William Moore
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.
Private Wealth Law respondentHigh Net WorthWilliam takes clients' situations into account. He's not cookie-cutter. He provides good, sound advice.
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Ranked Individuals at Hall & Wilcox (3)
Members
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William Moore
Head of Department

McLane Edinger

Erin Brown

Claire Hawke-Gundill

Laura Hanrahan

James Bon

Sam Baring

Juliet O'Brien

Casey Bombara

Jana Sosner

Olivia Hunt

Clare Hesbrook

Anna-Lisa Ryan

Arfa Shoukat

Hannah Willis

Isabella Urso

Emma Woolley
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