Private Wealth Law - Lincoln and surrounds
Band 1
What the Team is Known For
The private client team at Shakespeare Martineau has expensive experience advising its clients on matters related to estates, contentious trusts and probate.
Strengths
The Shakespeare Martineau team is highly specialised, tactically astute and takes a commercially-minded and pragmatic approach.
The firm's size means that they have the appropriate resources to handle complex matters, but they manage to combine that with a very friendly and approachable feel that you often only get from smaller firms.
The team at Shakespeare Martineau are always responsive, practical and helpful. Everyone I have worked with has been a genuine pleasure to work with.
Everyone I have interacted with at Shakespeare's have been incredibly welcoming, supportive and responsive to our needs.
Notable practitioners
Andrew Wilkinson is head of the contentious probate team at the firm and handles a range of contentious matters for local and international clients.
Andrew is brilliant. He is a really safe pair of hands.
Emma Carr is a legal director in the private client team at Shakespeare Martineau. Carr has specialist expertise in succession planning for farmers and rural landowners.
Emma Carr is great to work with.
Sarah Brack advises high net worth clients on inheritance tax planning in relation to trusts, gifting and APR and BPR. She also assists in relation to the administration personal injury trusts and acts as a financial deputy.
Sarah is a fantastic solicitor. She is calm, compassionate, has great knowledge and is attentive.
Sarah Brack is an exceptional lawyer. She patiently handles difficult family dynamics professionally.
Sarah in particular has a huge amount of experience in Court of Protection and this gives her a certain level of gravitas, while still remaining approachable and friendly.
Suzanne Leggott is a partner at Shakespeare Martineau and leads its national private client team. She has particular expertise in advising family businesses.
I rate Suzanne's expertise very highly, and always enjoy working with her.
Suzanne is first-class. She is technically very strong and has provided great advice to our clients.
Christina Polychronakis is experienced in a range of private wealth matters and regularly advises on high-value estate administration. She also specialises in probate-related issues. She recently moved to Shakespeare Martineau's Birmingham office.
Debra Burton is a specialist contentious trust and probate solicitor. She represents private individuals, trusts and charities.
Debra is very easy to communicate with and sets very clear explanations.
Debra Burton gives clear and helpful advice.
Hannah Tait is a private client specialist working with a range of clients on matters relating to asset protection and providing estate planning solutions.
Hannah Tait is compassionate, understanding, empathetic, realistic and extremely helpful.
Lesley Davis works with her clients on estate planning and asset protection matters, wills and powers of attorney.
Lesley Davis is very accessible and very pleasant to deal with.
Lilly Toop advises clients on estate administration, trusts and wills. Working in partnership with the firm's corporate department, she often supports business owners on their wealth planning matters.
Lilly has great empathy and is very easy to communicate with. She responds to queries with clear explanations.
Kim Ryan is a senior associate who specialises in will and probate disputes, as well as trust litigation. She also has experience Court of Protection cases.
Lauren Crowhurst is a senior associate at Shakespeare Martineau who focuses on estate administration matters. She acts on behalf of individuals executors and charities.
Lauren manages difficult situations efficiently and keeps me well informed at every stage.
Lauren is extremely helpful both on the practical and legal sides of estate administration.
