The Team
SHOWKAT ALIE MUKADAM
Director
Director, Wills, Succession Planning, Sharia Wills, Trusts, Tax Compliance & Estate Planning
BComm (Hons) Taxation (UCT) CA (SA) FPSA®
A specialist in estate and succession planning as well as tax compliance, Showkat Alie Mukadam is a chartered accountant who has enjoyed a distinguished career over more than three decades. He established Legacy Fiduciary Services in August 2010.
Mukadam also serves as nonexecutive director for various organisations and as an independent trustee on several trusts. He is a member of the Fiduciary Institute of South Africa (FISA®).
He is a longstanding trustee of the South African National Zakah Fund (SANZAF), which has over the past 45 years become a leading relief organisation responsible for collecting and distributing more than R150 million per annum.
CHRIS MURPHY
Director
Director, Senior Deceased Estate Administrator, Wills & Estate Planning
BProc FPSA®TEP
Chris Murphy is a shareholder director at Legacy Fiduciary Services and has been with the company since 2010. He is an admitted attorney who specialises in estate planning, administration of estates and drafting of wills.
A member of the International Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, Murphy is also a member of the Fiduciary Institute of South Africa (FISA) and holds the Fiduciary Practitioner of South Africa (FPSA®) accreditation.
Murphy deals mainly with deceased estate administration, for a limited number of clients annually. His responsibilities include managing Legacy Fiduciary Services Private Trust, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Legacy Fiduciary Services.
CHARLES EVISON
Director
Director, Wills, Trusts, Agreements & Estate Planning
BA LLB FPSA ®
Charles Evison is an admitted attorney, who specialises in estate planning as well as drafting of wills and trusts. He is a member of the Fiduciary Institute of South Africa and has Fiduciary Practitioner of South Africa (FPSA®) accreditation.
He was a commercial attorney for many years. He joined Legacy Fiduciary Services as a director soon after it was established in 2010.
Evison’s focus is the fiduciary arena and the ever-evolving trust law, within which parameters he strives to find simple and practical solutions to often complex challenges. He manages a team that looks after trust administration, which includes accounting, setting up the trust, drafting the deed as well as drafting loan agreements.
Alfie BESTER
Director
Director, Wills, Trusts, Agreements & Estate Planning
FPSA® TEP
Alfred Bester is a shareholder director at Legacy Fiduciary Services. He joined the company in 2014. He is a founder member of the Fiduciary Institute of Southern Africa (FISA) and has Fiduciary Practitioner of South Africa (FPSA®) accreditation.
Bester is a member of the International Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP). He has been practising in the fiduciary field for almost four decades.
Bester specialises in testamentary and inter vivos trusts, for which he acts as independent trustee, as well as cross-border estate planning. He also acts as independent trustee on litigious trusts.
He is an expert at structuring art collections as part of estate planning.
Lorna Hudson
Head Client Relations & Administration
Client Relations, Administration & Custodian of Wills, Deceased Estates, Markerting
Fiduciary and Estate Teams
Danielle Andrews
Estates Administrator
Deceased Estates
Estate Team
Helene Bentz
Fiduciary Practioner
Deceased Estates, Wills, Trusts & Agreements
BA CC LLB FPSA®
Fiduciary and Trust Teams
Karin Stoop
Fiduciary Assistant
Deceased Estates, Wills, Trusts & Agreements
Fiduciary and Trust Teams
Waseem Salie
Practice Manager
Accounts & Administration
Financial Team
Meredee Martin
Administration
Wills, Trusts & Agreements
Trust Team
Ivor Bloom
Company Secretary
Administration
Company Secreterial Services
Olivia Golden
Office caretaker
Office Caretaker, Postage and Filing
Reception / Back Office
Wanda Visser
Senior Estates Administrator – Fiduciary Practitioner
Deceased Estates, Fiduciary, BJuris & Wills
FPSA® Bjuris
Fiduciary and Estate Teams
Carmen Greenfield
Junior Estates Administrator
Deceased Estates Administration & Wills
Fiduciary and Estate Teams
Anesh Parsotam
Fiduciary Assistant
Deceased Estates, Wills, Trusts & Agreements
LLB
Fiduciary and Trust Teams
Pauline Robbins
Fiduciary Assistant
Deceased Estates, Wills, Trusts & Agreements
Fiduciary and Trust Teams
Rayanah Ryklief
PA to Showkat Alie Mukadam
Wills, Trusts & Agreements
Fiduciary and Trust Teams
Hameedah Allie
Accounting Assistant
Accounts and SARS
Tax Compliance and Financial Teams
Kulthoem Abdullah
Accounting Assistant
Accounts & Administration
Financial Team
Melissa West
Receptionist
Reception Care
Reception / Back Office