Russell Cooke Kingston Upon Thames

About Kieran

I provide a comprehensive, highly personal service for clients and their families. I listen to clients and provide advice and solutions to protect their wealth for themselves and future generations. My advice is delivered with clear straightforward explanations in an approachable and friendly manner.

Kieran specialises in tax, estate and succession planning, often acting for high-net-worth individuals, entrepreneurs and business owners.

Kieran advises in relation to the preparation of wills, estate and tax planning including business succession and wealth protection for future generations, probate, lifetime trusts, trusts for vulnerable and disabled individuals, lasting powers of attorney, enduring powers of attorney and court of protection matters.

Kieran’s work often includes international assets and cross-border elements. 

Kieran has significant experience of advising executors in relation to complex and high value estates, or estates with a challenging asset mix or unusual circumstances.

Kieran is recognised as an expert in his field he is often called upon by journalists of national publications and frequently appears on national and local radio in relation to estate planning for families.

As a committee member of the Wills and Equity Committee, which plays a leading role in private client law policy, practice and reform; Kieran regularly engages with leading professionals in the private client sector.

Kieran Bowe is a great talent: calm; knowledgeable and practical in the advice he gives.
The Legal 500 (2025)

Experience

  • Advising HNW family in relation to estate planning and wills with assets situated in multiple overseas jurisdictions
  • Administration of complex contested estate with multiple business interests in the hospitality sector 
  • Administration of estate non-domiciled tech entrepreneur with assets in the US and UK 
  • Advising HNW family in relation to succession planning and the making of lifetime gifts to the next generation
  • Advising on and preparation of death bed will for high profile individual
  • Advising a HNW family in relation to a estate planning where a child of the relationship is vulnerable 

Memberships

  • Member of the Wills and Equity Committee of the Law Society of England and Wales
  • Honorary Secretary and former President of the Surrey Law Society

Awards and accreditations

Kieran's highlights

News

20.03.2025

I inherited half my mum's house: will I owe tax on the 24 years her partner was allowed to live there?—This is Money

Private client partner Kieran Bowe has responded to a reader in This is Money, who inherited a 50% share of their late mother’s property in 2000, but her partner...
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18.03.2025

Planning for your future: wills, tax and estate planning—The Martin Lewis Money Show Live

Private client partner Kieran Bowe appeared as a panellist on The Martin Lewis Money Show Live on Tuesday 11 March 2025, providing viewers with guidance...
Kieran Bowe, Partner in the Russell-Cooke Solicitors, private client team.
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News

18.02.2025

Probate waiting times improve but 'fundamental issues' remain—ePrivateClient

Partner Kieran Bowe has been quoted in an article in ePrivateClient which highlights flaws in the probate system despite recent data from HM Courts & Tribunals...  
Kieran Bowe, Partner in the Russell-Cooke Solicitors, private client team.
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