Curle Stewart
Private Wealth Solicitor (private client)
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Role Description
Due to expansion, we are looking to recruit an additional Private Wealth Solicitor for our busy team. As a Private Wealth Solicitor at Curle Stewart, you will provide legal advice and services to high-net-worth and private clients on a range of succession matters.
Day-to-day responsibilities include:
- Drafting wills, trusts, and powers of attorney
- Advising on succession planning, estate administration, trust administration, and tax-efficient wealth structuring
- Working closely with clients to understand their circumstances
- Managing files
- Liaising with third-party advisers
- Ensuring matters progress efficiently and compliantly
The role involves collaboration with colleagues across the firm to support client transactions and broader commercial interests. This is a full-time, on-site role based in Glasgow.
Required Experience
Reporting to the Head of Department, the right candidate will have experience in:
- Preparing and advising on Wills and Powers of Attorney
- High net worth and ultra-high net worth Inheritance Tax planning including advising on asset transfers, lifetime and death planning
- Estate administration
- Creation and variation of Trusts
- Trust administration including calculation of 10 year and exit charges
- Winding up trusts
- Negotiating with HM Revenue and Customs
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The right candidate will also:
- Be a qualified Solicitor in Scotland with a strong background in private client work
- Have excellent mathematic skills
- Have proven technical expertise in wills, estates, trusts, and general succession planning
- Have excellent client care, compliance, communication, and relationship-building skills
- Have a strong commercial awareness and ability to contribute to the growth of the firm
- Be able to manage a full case load proactively and independently as well as working collaboratively with the team
- Be able to work to financial targets
- Assist with training junior staff
- Ideally have 3 years PQE+ experience in the private client/wealth field
- Speak fluent English and have the right to work in Scotland
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- Be STEP qualified (or working towards it)
- Guardianship and Intervention Order court experience
- Contentious estates and trusts experience
- Cross border estate planning experience
- Cross border estate administration experience
To Apply
Please send your CV to Stephanie Christie-Carmichael at scc@curlestewart.co.uk or contact 0141 227 6200 for a confidential chat about the role.
About Curle Stewart Limited
Curle Stewart is a boutique commercial legal practice founded in 2011 and based in central Glasgow. The firm combines top legal expertise with a focus on personal service, intelligent advice tailored to client needs, and transparent pricing. A close-knit team culture and efficient use of technology enable high-quality work without large-firm overheads, giving clients strong value. The client base includes SME businesses, leading entrepreneurs, high net worth individuals, and well-known corporates. Team members enjoy a positive, collaborative working environment reflected in strong, long-term client relationships.
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