The latest senior moves in wealth management and legal practice from across the UK and Europe.

Farrer & Co
Farrer & Co, the London-based law firm, announced that Henrietta Mason, a specialist in trust and probate disputes and former partner at Penningtons Manches Cooper, has joined its contentious trusts and estates team. 

Mason, who is joining as a consultant, will lead on the team’s internal and external technical knowledge and development needs and its strategic vision.

With almost 20 years’ experience of advising high net worth individuals both in the UK and abroad, she has developed a particular expertise in handling cross-border matters, including conflicts of laws in contentious matters relating to trusts, wills and succession. She has co-written a legal textbook on wills and probate - Probate Disputes and Remedies. Mason began her legal career at Withers. She later joined Penningtons Manches Cooper, where she has been a partner since 2018. Mason is regularly cited in the Chambers and Partners and Legal 500 directories. 

Addington Chambers
Tax and revenue law firm Addington Chambers has added two personnel to its "virtual" practice, including Michael Ashe as the firm’s first QC.

The group was set up seven months ago as a “virtual chambers” by joint heads Adrian Shipwright and Julian Hickey in response to the pandemic. Their aim is to create a collegiate barristers’ chambers, without the associated costs of being in buildings in the Inns of Court. Three of the members work from overseas in South Africa, Ireland, and Jersey.

Ashe, who joins the practice from 9 Stone Buildings, Lincolns Inn, began his career in 1978.  A Queens Counsel, he is a Bencher of Middle Temple and has been a Recorder of the Crown Court. Before the Bar, Ashe worked for the Inland Revenue and in investment banking. His practice involves contract and company law, financial services, market abuse and tax. He also has experience in general Chancery and commercial matters as well as judicial review.

Lynne Counsell, who has been practising since 1986, also joins from the barrister's chambers at 9 Stone Buildings. Her specialist areas include private client and traditional Chancery work such as probate, accounts, inheritance claims, Court of Protection matters, construction of wills and trusts; as well as financial services, interpretation of the FSMA 2000, collective investment schemes, regulatory issues and marketing investments.

The two take Addington’s team to 11, with five full members and six associates. Members overall have experience in advisory and litigation in all principal areas of UK and International tax, from cross-border corporate transaction advice to litigation across courts and tribunals, and advisory work on complex business and personal tax planning.

DWS
DWS has appointed Joe Kiwan as head of sales for Middle East and Africa.

Based in Paris, Kiwan is responsible for building DWS’s footprint in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region, with a particular focus on active and alternative strategies. He reports to Olivier Dubost de Cadalvène, head of DWS in France and head of MEA coverage.

Prior to joining DWS, Kiwan spent eight years at TOBAM, a quant specialist asset manager and pioneer in smart beta investing, where he led business development activities in the Middle East, Switzerland, Italy and Spain.

Kiwan graduated with a master's degree in management from Audencia Business School, one of France’s elite Grande Ecole programmes, and holds a bachelor degree in business administration from Saint-Joseph University of Beirut.