Ben Davies

Ben Davies is an established private client solicitor and associate member of Prince Evans Solicitors LLP who heads their wills, trusts and probate team.

Ben has a wealth of technical knowledge and practical experience in handling a wide variety of prolific private client matters, and is a professional who recognises the utmost importance of providing exceptional standards of client care.

As a commercially-focussed solicitor, Ben is also an affiliate of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP), as well as a web, marketing and social media executive of his firm.

George Lyall

George has 30 years’ experience in providing advice to individuals, their businesses and trusts.

George qualified as a Scottish solicitor and worked as a court lawyer. He joined Ernst and Young in 1985. There, he qualified as a chartered accountant and worked as a senior tax manager. George joined Dickinson Dees (now Womble Bond Dickinson) in 1994 (re-qualifying as an English lawyer) and became a partner in 1997.

George has particular experience in capital tax planning. He acts as a trustee of clients’ private and charitable settlements and as an executor of a number of deceased’s estates. He is a worldwide board director of STEP. 

Kerry Morgan-Gould

Kerry is a legal director in the wills, trusts and estates disputes team at Ashfords LLP.

She advises private individuals, charities and trustees in relation to all matters arising out of contentious wills, trusts and estates. Kerry also advises clients in relation to contentious Court of Protection matters.

Kerry regularly delivers training on the latest developments in the sector and is an accomplished conference speaker.

Katie Alsop

Katie Alsop is a senior associate in the contentious probate team at Wright Hassall LLP.

Katie specialises in contested wills, disputed estates and the removal and substitution of executors. She also advises on professional negligence claims, particularly in relation to the drafting of wills and the administration of estates.

With her agricultural background, Katie takes a keen interest in disputes with an agricultural aspect, in particular, proprietary estoppel claims. She has also been named as a 2018 ePrivateClient Top 35, Under 35 Private Client Practitioner.

Richard Guy

Richard Guy is an Associate at Gotelee Solicitors LLP and specialises in Private Client work for a range of clients from business owners, farmers, high net worth individuals and retirees. I advise clients on a wide variety of matters including wills, trusts, tax/estate planning, powers of attorney and probate/estate administration.

He was recognised as a "Rising Star" in multiple editions of the Legal 500 directory (2020, 2021, 2022).

Eamonn Daly

Eamonn Daly is a partner at Meridian Private Client LLP with over 30 years’ experience in advising high net worth individuals and families including entrepreneurs, family business owners, land owners and senior professionals on tax planning, wealth succession between generations and asset protection.

Eamonn is a Chartered Tax Adviser and a full member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners for which he sits on the Birmingham branch committee. He has been consistently recommended for tax and estate planning advice in the Legal 500 independent guide to the legal profession.