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Private Wealth Disputes - London (Firms)
What the Team is Known For
Kingsley Napley handles trust and probate litigation and global asset recovery matters.
Private Wealth Disputes
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Private Wealth Disputes
About
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Our specialist Private Wealth Disputes lawyers have extensive experience acting in disputes for HNW and UHNW clients.
We act for trustees, executors, personal representatives, protectors, beneficiaries, charities and for individuals in a wide range of disputes involving estates, trusts and land.
We often advise on complex and cross-jurisdictional issues, and regularly work alongside other intermediaries based offshore. We have specialist expertise in fraud cases involving trusts and estates, and we work with our top ranked criminal team on cases which involve criminal allegations, and with our media and reputation team on cases which where our clients have a public profile or in cases which might involve a wider public interest. We also work closely alongside our leading family team in divorce cases involving trust property.
We are regularly instructed in relation to contentious matters arising in the Court of Protection and are experienced in advising charities in relation to their potential fraud exposure as well as defending charitable legacies and other such related disputes. We also act often in disputes arising in relation to family farms and landed estates.
Strengths
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They all work in an incredibly integrated way as a team and have a common approach and sense for running contentious matters.
The Kingsley Napley team is friendly and approachable whilst also providing high-quality advice, often at short notice. A great team that clearly works well together.
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They're a really dynamic, hungry team. They are good at coming into difficult, long-running cases and moving them forward in a tough, efficient way. They focus on clients' goals and are commercial.
They all work in an incredibly integrated way as a team and have a common approach and sense for running contentious matters.
The Kingsley Napley team is friendly and approachable whilst also providing high-quality advice, often at short notice. A great team that clearly works well together.
They're a really dynamic, hungry team. They are good at coming into difficult, long-running cases and moving them forward in a tough, efficient way. They focus on clients' goals and are commercial.
Notable Practitioners
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Ryan Mowat
Head of Private Wealth Disputes
Ryan Mowat leads Kingsley Napley's private wealth disputes practice and is regularly involved in trust litigation, Court of Protection cases and asset recovery issues.
He is cool, calm and collected, straight to the point and impressively insightful.
Ryan Mowat is a real fighter, but in an understated way. He has good instincts in litigation and can see where it is going.
Ryan has a fantastic sense of what will work with the client and judge. He is good at managing big teams and gets great results. I would readily recommend his team for contentious trust or estates.
Ryan Mowat is a really good fighter. He is very, very commercial and clued up. He is always impressive.
Katherine Pymont
Katherine Pymont is a partner in the private wealth disputes team at Kingsley Napley. She is experienced in acting for high net worth clients in a variety of multi-jurisdictional trust and estate disputes.
Katherine Pymont is technically really excellent. She really knows her stuff, but is not overly academic and applies her technical skills well. She is also good with people, clients or opponents.
She is very attentive to details, calm, measured and with a good sense of what might go wrong.
She is very calm and level-headed. I have really high praise for her. She manages clients very well and is very comfortable on choice of law and conflicts of law in litigation contexts.
Kate Salter
Kate Salter is a senior associate in the contentious trusts and probate team, often assisting on sizeable litigation surrounding asset disputes and will forgery claims. Salter also has experience in contentious Court of Protection work.
Kate Salter is good to work with.
Kate has more experience than many other associates at her level. She is excellent.
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Anna O’Carroll
Cally Brosnan
Katherine Pymont
Laura Phillips
Lavanya Loganathan
Head of Department
Sophie Mass