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Charlotte Fraser joined Farrer & Co in 2006 as a trainee solicitor after graduating from the University of Oxford. Climbing up the ladder, she became a partner at the firm in 2017 and now leads its contentious trusts and estates team. 

She frequently advises on matters involving fraud, freezing injunctions, trust and estate disputes, asset tracing, breaches of trust and jurisdictional issues. Her diverse clientele pool includes beneficiaries, trustees, executors and settlors. 

Fraser is an expert in mental capacity issues and has participated in campaigns raising awareness of mental health, its associated stigma and the interplay between law and medicine. 

Adviser Profile

Charlotte is a partner in the contentious trusts and estates team. She acts for executors, settlors, beneficiaries and trustees on a range of trust and estate disputes, both onshore and offshore. 

Charlotte has extensive experience of complex domestic and multijurisdictional trust disputes involving breach of trust, beneficiary rights of information and jurisdictional issues. Charlotte has particular experience of claims involving fraud and asset tracing and has represented both claimants and defendants in connection with freezing injunctions and disclosure orders. She frequently advises on succession issues, including validity claims, capacity and construction issues, as well as claims under the Inheritance Act 1975.