Jodie Hogg
Senior case manager
Services
Private client and tax
Sectors
Private wealth
Jodie is a senior case manager in the private client team based in Guildford. She has over 17 years’ experience covering all aspects of private client advice including probate, wills, lasting powers of attorney, trusts and tax.
She has a particular interest in helping families through the probate process and ensuring all compliance points are dealt with. Her clients include executors, trustees, families and private individuals. She also enjoys helping people with their lifetime planning needs and supporting families through the generations.
My aim is to offer a supportive service to clients seeking to navigate the difficult probate process. I pride myself on being accessible to enable the process to progress smoothly and efficiently.
Jodie is a member of STEP, the world’s leading organisation for private wealth professionals, and is currently working towards Trust and Estate Practitioner (TEP) status which will give her extensive expertise in inheritance and succession planning. She joined Penningtons Manches Cooper’s private client team in Guildford in 2023.
Recent work highlights
High value estate
Will for terminally ill client
Removal of trustee
What people are saying
Jodie is a friendly and helpful professional. Her communication is excellent and consistent.
Thank you so much, you have been fantastic throughout this process. I will always be grateful.
Thank you for all your help during this very difficult time.
Thank you for your persistence liaising with HMRC on our behalf.
Michael Gerken
Senior case manager
Sectors
Real estate
Michael is a senior case manager within the real estate litigation team. He has specialist experience in residential real estate disputes, with a focus on block and estate management within the accommodation and living sector.
He has extensive expertise in advising private landlords in relation to the management of their regulated and assured tenancy portfolios, as well as vacant possession strategies. Michael advises clients on a plethora of matters including, but not limited to, mental capacity issues, contesting succession applications, loss of security of tenure, tenant disrepair, anti-social behaviour, subletting, injunctions for access and trespasser actions.
I am a real estate litigator advising on our clients’ complex landlord and tenant issues. I understand the difficulties which our clients face and am sought after for being able to find solutions to their most difficult problems.
His work also includes advising both private and social housing landlords clients on all aspects of block management. This includes rent and service charge collection, leaseholder challenges to reasonableness of service charges, breaches of covenant, anti-social behaviour, disrepair, section 20 consultations and applications for dispensation. Michael is a member of the Property Litigation Association and the Social Housing Law Association.
Recent work highlights
Portfolio management
Unlawful succession
Property and asset repossession
Only or principal home
Service charge recovery
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What our clients are saying
The Penningtons Manches Cooper team have good specialist knowledge and are very responsive.
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