Why use GWOL?

Goldsmith Williams Overseas Ltd

Goldsmith Williams Overseas Ltd (GWOL) is a separate company but related to Goldsmith Williams Solicitors. GWOL was established as a separate company to take advantage of the changing financial market. The company is a UK panel management firm specialising in the international conveyancing market, but is not involved in any legal work directly.

Goldsmith Williams

• Goldsmith Williams specialises in the residential conveyancing market in the UK and was established in 1984.
• One of the largest specialist firms in the UK
• Over 300 staff
• On the panel of every leading building society, bank and centralised lender
• Completes in excess of 40,000 transactions per year.

GWOL aims to provide the level of service to the overseas market to match the quality of service enjoyed by Goldsmith Williams introducers in the UK today.

Conveyancing service

Goldsmith Williams Overseas Ltd has spent a considerable amount of time developing a panel of international law firms. We currently provide legal services in the following countries:

• Brazil
• Bulgaria
• Cape Verde
• Cyprus
• Dubai
• Florida (coming soon)
• France
• Greece
• Italy
• Morocco
• Portugal
• Spain (including the Canary and Balearic Islands)
• South Africa
• Turkey

Whilst we may not have a direct service proposition in other countries at this time, we may still be able to assist you. If you require services in countries not listed above, please call us to find out more.

How can you and your clients trust the appointed law firm?

All law firms on our panel have come highly recommended by key players in the international market. We have vetted all firms and have conducted investigations to confirm that they are suitable to join the GWOL panel. All of the law firms on our panel have an excellent reputation in their respective countries and many have a number of offices both abroad and in the UK. GWOL have also set certain service standards which each firm must meet. We will closely monitor the service provided. We are confident that our panel firms work to provide a quality service.

What role will Goldsmith Williams Overseas Ltd play once a firm has been instructed?

Our involvement does not end once we have instructed a firm to act. We will be very much involved in the whole process. GWOL is in effect the panel manger/supervisor of the whole service. If any part of the of the transaction is not to your satisfaction we will communicate with the firms and will take work away if they are not performing. We regularly audit each firm and visit them on a regular basis. This will be an ongoing exercise.

Will the panel be able to handle high volumes of business?

We will continue to increase the size of the panel and build a bigger network as volumes of business increase. We are constantly reviewing other firms to join the GWOL panel.

We have appointed a number of firms in each country. Should one firm experience a high volume of cases, GWOL will redirect cases to another panel firm (We rely on broker and client feedback to continue improving the panel service. If you are unhappy with the performance of any particular firm, we will work with you to resolve all issues.)

Looking to the future

Goldsmith Williams places heavy emphasis on IT and the advantages that this has to both the intermediary and consumer market. We ca provide online instruction, reporting facilities, case tracking and online case management.

Goldsmith Williams Overseas Ltd is now in the process of developing a unique international web based case management system which will be available for all to use. This new system will ensure maximum client confidentiality, ease of instruction and case monitoring. We are set to launch this new service late 2007.

Other services

• Overseas finance
• Tax advice
• Currencies exchange
• Property sourcing