Luca Del Panta

Practice Areas

Luca advises individuals and institutions on a range of trust and succession disputes, both in the UK and abroad. His clients include entrepreneurs, charities, family businesses and trust companies. He is bilingual in Italian and English with a good knowledge of Spanish and Mandarin and enjoys using his language skills to the benefit of Stewarts’ international client base.

Luca has experience of disputes about the validity and administration of trusts (including directions applications, requests for information, and applications for the removal of trustees and protectors) as well as blessing applications in complex trust restructurings. He also has experience of a variety of will and probate disputes (including lack of capacity, want of knowledge and approval, and undue influence claims, as well as construction issues, claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975, and proprietary estoppel claims).

Luca has also acted in a number of commercial disputes with trust law aspects or allegations of fraud or breach of fiduciary duty.

Career

Luca read Classics and Sanskrit at Oxford. He trained at Withers LLP and spent three years at Farrer & Co before joining Stewarts in 2018.

Publications

Proceed with care: legacy disputes and the duties of charity trustees, Trusts & Trustees, May 2018

The cost of obstinacy (with Emma Holland), Trusts and Estates Law & Tax Journal, November 2019