About

Provided by Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP

Penningtons Manches Cooper is a leading UK law firm with a focus on private wealth. We offer innovative, clear and tailored advice across a full spectrum of legal services.

High net worth individuals, families, family offices and business owners with complex, multi-jurisdictional requirements have, for generations, turned to us for high quality, and frequently pioneering, advice on complicated tax, family law and succession issues.

We enable our clients to safeguard, grow and future-proof their wealth, addressing both short-term challenges and long-term strategies.

Our clients appreciate our open and sensitive approach to bringing family members together to start conversations about their hopes and fears for the future. Our warm personal service means that we have strong relationships with our clients, built up over many years.

We understand that every family or family business – regardless of their wealth – has issues and challenges that need to be resolved and we are not afraid to think creatively about their situation and work collaboratively with our colleagues to find solutions that work for all family members and business owners.

International mobility and multi-jurisdictional interests are realities of modern life for many of our clients. We have a strong international capability, assisting UK resident and non-resident, non-domiciled individuals, international families and family offices and business owners in numerous countries across the globe.

Chambers Review

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Private Wealth Disputes - The South

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Band 2

What the Team is Known For

Penningtons Manches Cooper is an acclaimed private wealth team. The team advises on private client planning and disputes matters and is particularly praised for its depth and breadth of knowledge.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Lucy Edwards
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Lucy Edwards
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Band 1
Lucy Edwards advises on wills, estate planning and tax matters.

Lucy provides a thoroughly professional and diligent service. She is always timely in her responses and her insightful knowledge is demonstrated with an emphatic approach.

Lucy is very knowledgeable, efficient, kind, professional and human.

Lucy Edwards is deeply technical and extremely user-friendly.

Michael Cash
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Michael Cash
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Band 1
Michael Cash is esteemed in the field of trusts and estates disputes. Cash regularly represents wealthy clients in complex and often cross-border trust and estate disputes.

Michael Cash is a legend in his own right and leads a big team.

Michael Cash is very methodical and his attention to detail in excellent. He is on the ball.

Michael Cash has a stellar reputation in the private client world.

Cecelia Ward
Star Associates

Cecelia Ward is a managing associate at Penningtons Manches Cooper. Ward has significant experience in advising wealthy clients on trusts and estates planning and wealth planning matters.

Cecelia Ward is a first-class lawyer.

Cecelia Ward is very knowledgeable in trusts, probate and related taxes.

Cecelia not only provides the necessary legal advice but is also sensitive to the potential impact on relationships within the family, allowing the client to approach matters appropriately.

Andrew Bird
Andrew Bird
Associates to watch

Andrew Bird is an associate in the contentious private client team. Bird is commended for his efficiency and expertise in private wealth disputes.

Andrew Bird is incredibly client-focused and conducts himself as if he were a partner.

Andrew Bird is very bright, extremely hard-working, dedicated and great with clients.

Andrew Bird is very switched on and has great attention to detail.

Ranked Individuals at
Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP

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Guildford and surrounds

Private Wealth Law

Lucy Edwards
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Lucy Edwards
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Band 1
Cecelia Ward
Star Associates

The South

Private Wealth Disputes

Michael Cash
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Michael Cash
1
Band 1
Andrew Bird
Andrew Bird
Associates to watch

Members

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Elizabeth Nicholas

Emma McCarthy