Principally known for his expertise in high net worth financial remedy cases, including those with complex international aspects.

Rosie is a Partner in Forsters' Family team and is known for taking a creative and pragmatic approach to family law to achieve the best outcome for her clients. She specialises in advising high net worth clients on complex divorce and financial matters, including those relating to children.

Her work frequently has an international dimension, involving trusts, offshore assets and family businesses. She is also highly experienced in preparing and negotiating pre and post nuptial agreements for high net worth families.  

Rosie is a regular commentator on developments in family law and has appeared in The Telegraph, Times, and The Guardian and written articles for the Law Society Gazette and Spears. She has presented seminars to wealth managers, city bankers, accountants, fiduciary services and mediators and has prepared presentations for family law and private client conferences in Italy, the Channel Islands and London.

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.

Frank has expertise in all areas of family law and is unusual in having successfully represented parties in both financial and children matters, domestic and international, in all levels of court including the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court in the last 5 years.

In the last year he has appeared in Sharp v Sharp, the landmark case concerning the approach to short and ‘dual career’ marriages; Mills v Mills, concerning the proper approach to a lifetime maintenance order (to be heard in the Supreme Court in June 2018); S v A (forthcoming) concerning a novel approach to the construction of awards in Sch 1 Children Act cases; Re M (Children) concerning the enforcement of foreign private law orders in the UK; and Re W (A Child) concerning the approach to be taken to domestic adoption cases.

Frank is a Recorder and sits in children and finance cases; he is qualified to sit in the Financial Remedies Unit at the Central Family Court.

Simon has extensive experience of all aspects of financial remedy law having spent his entire career at 1 Hare Court. He was for a number of years a member of the select band of Star Ranked Juniors before taking silk in 2020. His practice has continued to flourish, he having appeared in a number of the recent reported cases since 2020 including G v T, Goddard-Watts, E v L, A v M and Gallagher. Simon is known particularly for his ability to master the increasingly complex financial positions of the wealthy, both in this jurisdiction and abroad, and to present cases to the court in a digestible and persuasive manner. He is highly numerate and has an invaluable grasp on most aspects of modern commercial life. He will fight his client’s corner with skill and absolute determination but will not be afraid to compromise if that be in the client’s interests.

Simon has appeared in the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal and with the preponderance of his work now before High Court Judges in the Family Court. He has also built up an enviable reputation as a Private FDR Judge, known for his ability to cut through cases and assist parties in reaching a settlement with early neutral evaluations. As well as court-based work, Simon continues to advise trustees of family trusts when they become involved in family disputes and to prepare pre- and post- nuptial agreements.

Morgan is an experienced practitioner who focuses on all aspects of financial work in the field of Family Law, with an emphasis on matrimonial finance cases. He also regularly advises in property disputes between unmarried couples under “TOLATA” and applications for financial provision for children.

He is often instructed on his own against QCs in very high value financial cases, often with an international element. He has appeared before every level of tribunal up to and including the Court of Appeal.

Morgan undertakes arbitrations both as advocate and qualified arbitrator; he regularly sits as a “private judge” in out-of-court Financial Dispute Resolution hearings.
Morgan is recommended as a leading family law junior in both the Legal 500 and in Chambers and Partners. He has been praised for his skill at conveying ideas clearly and succinctly, for his technical knowledge and ability to stay calm and collected in tricky situations and before challenging judges. The Legal 500 has previously summed him up as categorically excellent in all respects.

In 2019, Morgan was appointed as a Recorder (part-time judge), sitting in the Family Court on the South Eastern circuit.

Laura’s practice is predominantly focussed on financial remedies cases including of high net worth, high profile clients and cases with modest assets but other complex aspects including trust and company structures, on and offshore assets and where 3rd parties intervene.

She has a wide range of experience of Trusts of Land cases and applications under Schedule 1 to the Children Act 1989.

She has worked as a junior to a number of QCs both in and out of Chambers.

Laura is also interested in other dispute resolution methods. She is a collaborative lawyer and mediator.

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.

Christopher has been described as “the go-to silk for financial cases with trust elements.” He has appeared in many of the leading cases in this area, such as Charalambous v Charalambous, Ben Hashem v Shayif, A v A & St George Trustees and Prest v Petrodel. He has spoken on this subject, and on wider issues concerning assets held in the names of third parties nationally and internationally, and has written or co-written numerous publications on the topic. His non-contentious work substantially comprises providing trustees with advice on adopting policies to avoid becoming embroiled in matrimonial litigation, including the use of pre- and post-nuptial agreements.

More generally, Christopher is often instructed in high net worth cases with international elements and/or complex asset holding structures, in particular where valuation, disclosure or enforcement issues are to the fore or where pre-post nuptial agreements are featured. He frequently receives instructions from related overseas jurisdictions including Hong Kong and the Caribbean in relation to both English and overseas proceedings and has appeared in the Channel Islands, Gibraltar and the Isle of Man on a number of occasions.

Christopher also has particular knowledge and experience of cohabitation cases and related Schedule 1 issues. He appeared in a number of important Court of Appeal cases in this field such as Oxley v Hiscock and Prazic v Prazic. Christopher accepts instructions to act as a private FDR judge both in England.

Brett is a partner in the divorce and family team.

He advises clients on all aspects of family law, including divorce, cohabitation, children, prenuptial agreements and civil partnerships with a particular emphasis on the resolution of complex financial disputes.