Private client team news and updates—January 2024

In this latest newsletter, we offer further insights on how to deal with missing assets, people or documents. A reminder that it is important to regularly review documents and estate planning, so that if any issues are identified, they can be resolved during your lifetime, before it is too late. We recommend professional advice is sought, to ensure the correct process is followed, to protect and prepare your personal representatives and to ensure your loved ones and / or charities receive their intended entitlement from your estate.

We are delighted welcome two significant and exciting additions to our private client team:

• James Cook joined in October as a partner, based in the Bedford Row (Holborn) office
• Vanessa Collins joined in November as a legal director, based in the Kingston office 

We can provide Notary Public Services: Typically this involves the authentication and certification of a wide variety of documents for use overseas for either personal or business purposes. Jonathan Thornton and Christopher Salomons are our notaries, who are both also qualified solicitors. They are both able to deal with most notarial documents but Jonathan is a company and business lawyer and so tends to deal with company notarisations, while Chris handles cross border tax and estate issues and will deal with notarisations for private individuals.