Louise is an experienced private client lawyer with a strong background in wills, LPAs, trusts, and estate administration. She advises individuals, families, and high-net-worth clients on a broad range of private client matters, including estate planning, inheritance tax strategies, and complex probate cases.
Louise has significant expertise in advising clients on wills, including those navigating major life changes such as divorce or remarriage, ensuring their assets are protected for future generations. She also has extensive experience in administering estates, including intestacies and post-death variations for tax-efficiency, as well as advising on both existing and newly established trusts.
Louise’s practice also covers lasting powers of attorney, where she provides guidance to both donors and attorneys on their legal responsibilities.
Her performance and ability have been exceptional.
Private will client
Of particular note has been the understanding, sensitivity and patience with which she helped my partner navigate the issues and processes in respect of wills and associated inheritance-related matters.
High-net-worth client
You really have been an immense help to me through all this.
LPA client
Family dynamics are often never easy in these circumstances, but your experience and sympathetic understanding has been invaluable to us all.
Probate client
Expertise
- Wills
- Lasting powers of attorney (LPAs)
- Probate – estate administration & intestacy
- Post-death variations
- Trusts
- Inheritance tax (IHT) and succession planning
- Contentious probate
- High-net-worth estate planning and asset protection trusts
Experience
Private Client
- Acted for the executors of a discretionary will trust to vary the trust into an interest in possession trust in order to secure a more favourable tax regime.
- Acted for high-net-worth cohabitees, drafting new wills and LPAs to incorporate effective inheritance tax planning for a blended family.
- Advised trustees in connection with a trust with overseas beneficiaries.
- Advised a family regarding a missing person and administered the intestate estate once all formalities were completed.
- Acted for a separated widow before her decree absolute had been issued and administered the intestate estate.
- Advised the executors of a complex estate with overseas assets and successfully claimed the TNRB and TRNRB with HMRC, where the predeceased spouse was resident abroad but domiciled in the UK.
- Provided advice on deeds of variation in numerous probate matters for high-net-worth clients as part of inheritance tax succession planning.
- Acted for an attorney after the donor had lost mental capacity, to ensure she fulfilled her legal duties as an attorney when signing a care home contract.
- Advised a widow and administered the intestate estate of her late husband, including a statutory trust for minor children.
- Acted for a widow making a claim under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 for reasonable financial provision.
- Advised attorneys in connection with palliative end-of-life care for the donor of the LPA.
- Advised the donor of LPAs following a diagnosis of a terminal, life-shortening illness and advised generally in organising her affairs, including immediate gifts and preparing a new will.
- Reviewed a marriage settlement trust established in 1934.
- Advised the executors in connection with a complex estate and successfully claimed Business Property Relief (BPR) and Agricultural Property Relief (APR).
- Acted for a settlor in setting up a vulnerable person’s trust for an adult child who had lost mental capacity due to addiction.
Please note: The experience list above may include examples of work completed prior to joining Keystone Law.
Career
Louise qualified as a solicitor in 1991. Prior to joining Keystone Law in 2025, she worked at the following firms:
- Macfarlanes
- Camilla Baldwin
- Brooke Gordon