Frank Cook

With a practice on all aspects of Private Wealth, Frank's practice has an emphasis on asset protection, acting for entrepreneurs and landowners and supporting those clients with complex business needs or challenging family circumstances. Some of Frank's recent experience includes:  - Acting for executors and advising trustees in a series of complex trusts with a combined asset value of over £120m - Advising trustees who held shares in a private limited company subject to a 3rd party takeover - Advising farming families on how to transfer assets between generations - Acting as attorney for an individual with complex needs - Applying to the Court of Protection to enable estate planning by way of family gifts for individuals who lack capacity - Giving in house training to firms of national accountant's tax teams - Working with Chartered Financial Planners to provide tax efficient and structured solutions to client problems - Being appointed as independent administrator by the High Court in contested estates - Administering the UK estate of non-UK citizens  - Will and Trust creation for parents with vulnerable beneficiaries  - Creation of charitable trusts