Suzanne Mynors is a partner in the private client team advising a wide range of clients, many of whom are High Net Worth and require bespoke advice relevant to their specific family and financial circumstances.

Suzanne has 30 years’ experience specialising in Wills and multi-generational succession planning, probate and estate administration, trust advice and trust taxation, inheritance tax planning, powers of attorney and mental capacity work. Much of her work has an international dimension, advising clients who are not UK nationals or those with assets in another jurisdiction, in conjunction with experts in those jurisdictions. She deals with non-contentious matters but works collaboratively with teams across the firm with expertise in trust and estate disputes, family law, company and commercial law, charity law, as well as all aspects of commercial and residential property related matters.

She is a director of Russell-Cooke Trust Company (RCTC) and oversees Russell-Cooke’s in- house tax and accounts team which provides tax reporting and compliance and accounts services to our clients, in additional to our legal services.

She is a full STEP member since 2002, a fully accredited member of the Association of Lifetime Solicitors since 2015, a member of the Private Client Section of the Law Society, a member of the Alzheimer’s Society and a dementia friend.

Suzanne has been ranked in Chambers High Net Worth in 2025 and 2026 and is a recommended lawyer in Legal 500 for 2025 and 2026.

Suzanne has strong connections in the South West / West London area and often presents seminars or workshops advising clients on how to put their affairs in order. She has a broad network of professional advisers with whom she works in tandem, such as tax advisers, accountants, wealth and investment managers, financial planners, valuers, care agencies and estate agents.

Suzanne qualified in 1998 and joined Russell-Cooke in February 2020.

• Trust and taxation advice for discretionary trust wills, life time discretionary trusts for tax planning and asset protection, trusts for life and pension policies, vulnerable beneficiary trusts, life interest trusts, PI trusts and charitable foundations. Creation, termination and ongoing management advice for trusts.

• Inheritance tax planning advice especially regarding lifetime gifting, pensions and business property relief (BPR).

• Complex estate administration including international assets in multiple jurisdictions, multiple property interests, intricate inheritance tax advice and reporting, complicated life time gifts and challenging family dynamics.

• Unusual probate applications such as proving a copy Will, ad colligenda grants (emergency), de bonis non grants (unadministered assets) and grants on credit.

• Estate and succession planning for family business owners and entrepreneurs.

• Advising on family investment companies (FICs) and interaction with UK trust structures, often with international elements.

• Russell-Cooke Trust Company (RCTC) – Helping clients transition wealth to the next generation (find out more).

• Russell-Cooke Trust Company (RCTC) – Helping clients when they want to benefit charity (find out more).

• Advising executors, administrators, trustees and attorneys on their duties and powers.

• Mental capacity advice including privately funded deputyship applications and statutory will applications, including obtaining the consent of 32 German cousins due to inherit on intestacy in one case.

• Full member of Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) since 2002
• Fully accredited member of The Association of Lifetime Lawyers
• Member of Private Client Section of the Law Society
• Member of Alzheimer's Society and Dementia Friend