Masayo is a Senior Associate in our highly regarded, award winning Private Client team, offering over 20 years experience in all areas of private client matters. Masayo currently specialises in Estate Planning, Wills, Powers of Attorney and Estate Administration (Probate and Intestacy) as well as advising Executors and Trustees.

Clients find Masayo approachable whilst maintaining professionalism. Through years of experience, Masayo identifies clients’ needs and advises them with clarity and empathy.

Using her empathetic yet professional approach, Masayo has helped many families get through one of the most difficult times in their lives and helped them find a way through their family difficulties by guiding them to focus and achieve their ultimate goals.

Over the years, Masayo has assisted clients with complicated estates and untangle complex issues to a satisfactory conclusion. She enjoys getting to know her clients and finding solutions for their needs. By getting to know her clients Masayo quickly and clearly identifies their needs and tailor her advice accordingly.

Masayo enjoys assisting her clients with their estate planning and help achieve piece of mind.

Masayo advises clients in Seaford and surrounding areas. Masayo also has and can advise clients outside of the area and is happy to travel to other offices.

Masayo is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives having completed her final examinations in 2007. Masayo is also an Affiliate member of the Society of Trusts and Estate Practitioners (STEP) and has obtained an Advanced Certificate in Estate Administration as well as an Advanced Certificate in Trust Administration.

Masayo has spent much of her time volunteering for a local charity in previous years and is looking to help other local charities.

In her spare time, Masayo enjoys baking.

Please feel free to contact me with your queries and/or for an initial consultation.

I genuinely love what I do and to be able to help my clients at one of the most difficult times of their lives. Over the years, I have helped many clients at their death bed.

Samantha Stowell initially wanted to study computer science and psychology, but during her year out she worked for the Crown Prosecution Service and became fascinated with law. She sat and passed the Executive Office Board and exam when she was 19 and worked as a law clerk instructing counsel in the Crown Court.

She read law at the University of Sussex, followed by the LPC at Guildford College of Law where she discovered the law of trusts and equity and private client work.

She qualified as a criminal solicitor with the CPS, defended and worked for the Magistrates’ Court, after which she was able to make the leap into Private Client work.

She worked for MWB over 20 years ago before taking a career break to raise her three children. She returned to work as a private client solicitor for a local firm in Arundel whilst her children were small.

When MWB opened their Chichester office, she was thrilled to be invited to re-join them. Whilst the firm has changed and grown over the years, there are still some familiar faces. What has remained constant is its vision, passion and warmth for clients and colleagues.

She has over 15 years’ experience in private client work and, before having children, sat and passed all the STEP exams and was a member of STEP.

She enjoys helping her clients reach informed decisions in relation to their Wills. There is no such thing as an ordinary family or estate. The drafting of documents is easier than the decision making. She also understands that the administration of estates can be very traumatic and is part of the grieving process, so she tries to shoulder the burden for her clients when she can.

At weekends, she can either be found freezing whilst her daughter is ice skating, or in the summer scoring the odd cricket match for her sons.
Occasionally, when they can escape, she and her husband can be found at the theatre or walking in Arundel Park.