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Sally Ashford

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Sally has particular expertise in advising high net worth individuals and family business owners in relation to their estates and family succession planning, including inheritance tax mitigation and trusts.

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About

Sally leads the non-contentious Private Client team in Guildford and has particular expertise in advising high net worth individuals and family business owners in relation to their estates and family succession planning, including inheritance tax mitigation and trusts. She has considerable experience in Court of Protection matters including deputyship and statutory will applications, and deals with complex capacity issues in addition to acting as a professional deputy. Sally also advises charities and not for profit organisations on legacy administration and legacy campaign literature. Sally is recommended in the legal directories Legal 500 and Chambers and is ranked in the Citiwealth Leaders List. She is on the reserve panel of the Court of Protection and a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners.

Sally is admitted to practise in England and Wales.

Experience

  • Acting as Financial and Health & Welfare deputy for a client with complex capacity and welfare needs
  • Advising multiple generations of a family in relation to their successful, national family business and personal assets
  • Advising on inheritance tax planning, trusts and succession planning for a client with international dimensions and complicated family arrangements

Recognition

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  • Spears 500_2022_Ribbon
  • uk-leading-individual-2021
  • Chambers HNW 2020 - Sally Ashford

Our thinking

  • eprivateclient quotes Sally Ashford on considerations around power of attorney

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    In The Press

  • Sally Ashford and Oliver Auld write for International Adviser on the role of a trustee in a family trust

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    In The Press

  • The Financial Times quotes Sally Ashford on inheritance tax and devising a property strategy for relatives

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    In The Press

  • Charles Russell Speechlys Presses Play at the Guildford Games Festival

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    News

  • Changing an Enduring Power of Attorney

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    Insights

  • The Surrey Chambers of Commerce report on the Charles Russell Speechlys' Community Fund's support of Surrey Young Carers

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    In The Press

  • The Bank of Gran and Grandad

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    Insights

  • Sally Ashford interviewed by BBC Radio Surrey on remote witnessing of wills

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    In The Press

  • The role of the ‘sandwich generation’

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    Insights

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