Before entrusting a name to anyone, five questions separate a practice from a pitch.
The decision is rarely about competence. It is about exposure, temperament and the number of people who will end up knowing the matter.
If the answer is a team, the answer is a team. That is a legitimate model, but it is not a private one.
Availability is finite. A practice that cannot state its capacity has not considered the capacity required.
Documents outlive relationships. Ask what is recorded, who can read it, and how long it is kept.
An adviser who declines nothing is an executor. The value is in the refusal as much as in the delivery.
The honest answer is: the name, the requests, and the fact that we work together, unless decided otherwise.