Private Wealth Law - Exeter and surrounds
Band 2
What the Team is Known For
Stephens Scown provides a broad private wealth law practice with a strong private client and inheritance and trust disputes team. The team is engaged in complex high-value estate planning and administration as well as trust planning. It works with high net worth individuals and for rural and other landed estates.
Strengths
From the initial phone call and face-to-face meeting, I felt my case was understood from both a legal and personal viewpoint.
Stephens Scown gives excellent client service. The team has a really good understanding of legal issues, driven by common sense.
Stephens Scown is a really classy outfit. It is the best firm in Cornwall. They handle client affairs very well.
Notable practitioners
Phil Reed is the head of the private client team in Cornwall, acting on wills, Inheritance Tax planning, and administration of estates and trusts.
James Burrows has a wealth of experience acting for high net worth clients in a range of inheritance and trusts disputes.
James is a pleasure to work with and leads an excellent team.
James is always very well prepared.
Thomas Biddick advises high net worth clients on a wide range of wills, estate administration and tax planning matters. Biddick recently joined Stephens Scown from Ashfords.
Thomas is a good lawyer who knows his stuff.
