Rachel Roche, founder and managing partner at York-based firm Roche Legal, has launched a service to solve probate problems for American clients with UK assets.
The service has attracted provisionally approved funding from the UK Department of Trade and Industry. It is also available to clients living in France, South Africa, Australia and Spain.
Roche (pictured) will discuss the new offering today at the New York State Bar Association Global Conference in London, where she is jointly chairing a panel entitled: Cross-Atlantic Estate Planning: Wealth Transfer Planning and Administration in an Internationally Challenging Time.
Ahead of the event, Roche said that the new service was launched “in response to the legal contacts I have established around the world and they come to us when they need to obtain UK probate for the estate of a non-domiciled client”.
She continued: “We administer the UK property and assets and repatriate the funds to wherever they need to be in the world and this started with a number of cases involving France, as I am a French speaker.
“Our point of difference at Roche Legal is that we offer this service as a package to deal with the UK element of a probate and we can take care of the legal situation in this country. So, we are dealing directly with other law firms overseas.
“I am also undertaking business financial training in America that I will be able to implement into the work we do here at Roche Legal.”
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