Charlotte has been head of the Family team at Kingsley Napley since 2013.  She specialises in all aspects of family law, particularly international issues, both in relation to finance and children. Charlotte has a reputation for cross border jurisdiction issues, particularly European and Relocation cases, and for acting for unmarried parents in Schedule 1 (financial provision) cases.  She is also an accredited mediator and collaborative lawyer, working with high profile and high net worth couples keen to resolve their separation in private.

Charlotte is listed in the top ranks of the legal directories; Chambers UK, Chambers High Net Worth & Ultra High Net Worth, and Legal 500 UK. She is also Top Recommended in Spear's Family Law Index 2022. Charlotte was shortlisted as Family Law Partner of the year in 2019 in both the Family Law Awards and Chambers High Net Worth Awards.

Chris Pocock specialises in divorce and matrimonial finance in disputes between high net worth parties. He has a wealth of experience dealing with complexities involving corporate and other businesses and/or complex remuneration packages, as well as with cases involving offshore and onshore trust and other asset-holding structures. Many, if not most, of his cases involve international and cross-border aspects, either substantively or in relation to enforcement.

Chris is ‘a skilled advocate (2020 Legal 500); ‘Very commercial, sensible and pragmatic in his advice”. “He’s excellent in cases where the detail is important.” (Chambers & Partners 2020)’

Connie regularly assists clients who need help with their separation and the practical and financial implications arising out of this. 

Most of Connie’s clients or their partners work in the City and many have an international connection.  Connie therefore regularly works with solicitors in other jurisdictions.  Connie has expertise in international surrogacy cases and helps parents with the parental order applications required following their children’s birth.  On these cases, she works closely with members of our immigration team to resolve any issues in bringing the children home.

Connie is also a qualified mediator and assists as a mediator for clients in respect of all practical and legal issues surrounding family relationship breakdown. She is recognised as a Next Generation Lawyer in Legal 500 UK 2019 for Family: Mediation  and in Chambers UK 2020 as an Associate to Watch in Family/Matrimonial.

Alison is a highly experienced family mediator and lawyer, passionate about helping sort things out without going to court if possible, and used to handling complex, conflictual situations.

She focuses on the bigger picture and the best interests of children. She helps clients to agree parenting plans, and to sort out issues about their businesses, trusts, pensions and international assets.

The direction the law takes us when our clients have never married is often a poor fit against the moral compass our client had before consulting us.  It is also generally unaffordable.  So finding what will be useful so we can do more than just apologise to our clients for the systems that we deliver is important.  We can do our best by knowing the systems as well as we can, which James has done through [Resolution] accreditation in TOLATA, through schedule 1 nerdy-ism [that book], having worked the Child Maintenance system since the start of the 90s and through learning about the wider context of systems the systems by which we might help (which James has tried to do eg collaborative and pFDRs or better ENE, mediation, arbitration, Child inclusive work, integrating with financial planners, divorce coaches and the whole rich non-law context around conflict/ relationships/ child-development/ aspirations-led work & the rest).  There is lots to talk about.

Tim is a relationship counsellor for couples and individuals in Haslemere and central London. He works alongside Annmarie Carvalho for the Carvalho Consultancy, often dealing with couples going through separation. 

Before training in therapy he was a national newspaper commissioning editor for 25 years and before that a teacher of English

Sarah’s practice has a particular emphasis upon advising on or mediating complex financial claims upon divorce together with future arrangements for children. She has considerable experience of drafting pre and post marital agreements. As a fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) she is recognised worldwide as having specialist knowledge of the recognition and dissolution of religious as well as civil marriages.

Sarah has a vibrant family mediation practice with referrals from top tier law firms. She is a collaborative lawyer too. She recently won Jordan's Family Law Dispute Resolution Practitioner of the Year 2016. She favours a practical and pragmatic approach to resolving conflict.

Helen is passionate about financial planning. Having lost both parents by the age of 10, she was inspired by an Adviser who helped her family. 

With her career starting in the early 90s, Helen founded Equanimity in 2004. She has a vast experience in all aspects of financial advice and has developed a specialism in pensions and divorce where she is a noted speaker. With a love of music, travel and culture her weekends are spent tiring out her 2 sons.

Bill Hewlett has worked for 20 years as a child consultant and a mediator and has managed and supervised the clinical practice of mediators across six Family Relationship Centres in Sydney, Australia. In response to the current challenges of the UK family law system, Bill has developed an innovative and effective model of practice for working with parents who are in conflict with each other. When families are going through traumatic change, the children can respond by being fearful that their parents would not be able to collaborate quickly and effectively to keep them safe. Bill’s focus is to assist the parents to form an amicable, cooperative and collaborative parental alliance with each other, thereby reducing any psychological and developmental load that the children may be carrying.

Bill trains practitioners in the UK, Hong Kong and Australia and often presents at international conferences and is a published author     

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Jeremy is a consultant in our private client and tax team.

He has over 30 years of experience of advising on wealth structuring, tax, trusts and estate matters. His clients include well known high net worth individuals, family offices and entrepreneurs based both in the UK and around the world.

Jeremy’s experience is very broad, and enables him to provide a commercial and strategic perspective when advising clients on their planning. He worked for 20 years in Withers’ wealth planning team, advising a wide variety of families and business leaders, as well as working with the firm’s management on the early stages of Withers’ international expansion.

In 2006, Jeremy played a key role in establishing the Wealth Advisory business of Barclays Wealth, where he acted as Managing Director and a Member of the Executive Committee. Two years later, when Barclays Wealth was fully operational, Jeremy moved to help develop the activities of a European family having been through a significant liquidity event. Working as General Counsel and a strategic advisor, Jeremy helped establish a multi-jurisdictional investment platform across Europe, the US and UK.

Jeremy re-joined Withers in 2016, and works closely with the firm management on the development of the wealth planning and tax practice.