Sheilagh Magee
Partner
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Location
Reading
Profile
Services
Sheilagh has a wealth of experience offering full private client services and has many longstanding clients.
She specialises in estate administration, drafting wills and Lasting Powers of Attorney. Many clients are both UK and non-UK domiciled HNW individuals with foreign property and interests.
Sheilagh offers practical solutions to estate planning for families as well as advice on setting up and managing trusts.
""'Sheilagh has excellent people skills.'
Chambers HNW 2024
'Sheilagh is great. She is personable and can handle difficult clients. She is extremely knowledgeable.'
Chambers HNW 2024
‘Sheilagh Magee is very impressive. Very customer focussed and she has excellent oral and written communication skills. Totally committed to the ongoing needs of her Court of Protection patients.’
Legal 500, 2024
‘Sheilagh Magee is a very nice person who is pragmatic and robust in her approach, which is appreciated by us in our dealings with her.’
'Sheilagh is brilliant with clients and is able to offer solutions to all needs.'
Chambers 2022
'Sheilagh has a wealth of experience. She is always very practical and passionate about helping clients.'
Chambers 2022
Career Highlights
- Acting for the estate of a high profile public figure, negotiating settlement with family members, successful claim for BPR on significant business interests, recalculation of gifts for charities leading to reduction in IHT
- Acting for the executors and trustees of a high profile entertainer in the music industry, dealing with wills in multiple jurisdictions, assets worldwide and addressing various claims against the deceased’s estate and business interests. Clearing USA taxes under the USA / UK Double Taxation Treaty
- Acting for a UK resident client with a lost UK will and assets in the UK and India, obtaining BPR on significant UK interests and also working with the India Estate Tax Treaty to ensure assets in India excluded from UK IHT