Professional Bodies & Organisations:     

• SOFAA Society of Fine Art Auctioneers
• RICS  Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors
• ART LOSS REGISTER   (database of stolen antiques and works of art)
• ANTIQUES ARE GREEN
  

Regional Solicitors with Professional Probate Departments:

• Davis Gregory, Solicitors and Notaries public provide high quality, good value legal services to individuals and small businesses. They specialise in wills and inheritance tax planning, probate and trust work, buying and selling property, family problems, injury and employment claims, and disputes. For businesses they also offer a highly streamlined and cost-effective debt collection service. They have two notaries public, who can authenticate documents for use abroad.
• Gabb & Co  are the oldest, and one of the largest, firm of solicitors in Wales with a client base well into the borders / Herefordshire and the rest of the UK.  Their strength is private client work with a large professional team specialising in Probate. 
• Tanners Solicitors Based on the principle that trust, fair play and flexibility are the essentials of any good working relationship, Tanners have a specialist team of lawyers that provide a wide range of services in relation to all aspects of their clients' business affairs
• Thring Townsend Lee & Pembertons  A top 100 law firm, Thring Townsend Lee & Pembertons continues to extend and develop the range of services it provides to its commercial, agricultural and private clients.  The firm's strong private client team provides expert, confidential advice on not only the making of Wills and administering of estates, but also on sophisticated tax planning, trust formation, heritage property, business assets and landed estates. This year, the advice given has ranged from advice and negotiations in respect of Inheritance Tax exemptions for chattels, including the sale of a significant 18th Century painting, to planning a provisional structure for negotiating items of historic interest in lieu of tax.
• Wilmot & Co Solicitors LLP is a long established Cotswold firm specialising in private client services such as estate administration, inheritance tax planning and asset protection for high net worth individuals and with a niche litigation practice in the classic car and aircraft field.
• Charles Russell
• TLT  is a top 100 UK law firm based in Bristol and London which offers a service tailored to any client's needs, from its traditional South West base to all parts of the world  
• Rickerbys Solicitors
• Willans LLP is a Cheltenham law firm offering first-class specialist services to business and private clients. Their probate team handle all aspects of wills, trusts, tax planning and probate disputes as well giving independent and kindly support to many elderly clients.
• Midwinters
• Thomson & Bancks
 is a substantial, modern legal practice serving South Worcestershire and North Gloucestershire. Our approach to business is built upon the uncompromising commitment to the client and his or her needs. It recognises the client's entitlement to a responsive service, attention to detail and advice that is not only creative, but reinforced by experience and sound judgement.   We are able to offer a wide range of services to clients including advice on Wills, Inheritance Tax planning, Powers of Attorney, Administration of Estates, Setting up and Administration of Trusts, and dealing with personal and Trust Tax Returns.  We have a number of partners and staff who specialise in these areas and we pride ourselves on being able to provide a knowledgeable, sympathetic and competitive service.
• Burges Salmon
• Tayntons Solicitors
• AES Winterbothams LLP with offices in Stroud and Nailsworth, was formed in 2008 from the merger of the long established practices of AE Smith & Son and Winterbothams. A forward looking firm which provides a wide range of services with specialist departments to both private and business clients based in the Stroud Valleys, South Gloucestershire and beyond.
  Pinkerton Leeke & Co
• Thorpe & Thorpe 
• Moore Brown & Dixon
• Langley Wellington
• Goldinghams
• Jacopi Palmer Solicitors 
• Davies & Partners 
• Dee & Griffin 
• Lapage Norris Sons & Saleby
• Whatley Weston & Fox
• Penley's
• Treasures 
• Veale Wasbrough Lawyers
• Madge Lloyd & Gibson 
• Davey Franklin Jones  

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