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Private Wealth: Trusts - UK
Individual Editorial
Penelope Reed KC is an exceptionally eminent silk with a formidable depth of experience in trusts and inheritance matters. She is noted for her work on high-profile cases and particularly for her trial advocacy. Her practice also includes acting as a mediator in major trust disputes.
Strengths
Approachable, very easy to work with and excellent both in terms of her advocacy and in her dealings with clients.
Penelope is extremely personable and invested in the client and the case. She is evidently highly technical and just a very safe pair of hands.
Calm, sensible and on top of everything, she's legendary in this circle and just a lovely person to work with.
Penelope is a great barrister and a very pleasant person, who is at the top of the game, a position she has maintained for many years now.
Offshore (Bar) - UK
Individual Editorial
Penelope Reed KC of 5 Stone Buildings focuses her practice on the representation of private clients in such matters as trusts, estates and inheritance disputes. She has experience acting in such jurisdictions as the Channel Islands and the Bahamas.
Strengths
Penelope has the ability to predict where matters might head using her experience and knowledge. She can see the pitfalls and so she is able to provide a good strategic oversight and steer the ship.
Penelope Reed has a great reputation and deservedly so. She's sensible and measured. For trusts she's all over the law.
Penny is excellent. The court listens to her, she's seen as a hugely persuasive authority. Someone definitely to go to for an influential opinion.