Birketts
The 3rd Annual HNW Divorce Next Gen Summit
The key event for Next Gen family practitioners on the path to leadership.
In-Person | 13th March 2025 | Thistle Marble Arch
Meet Your Next Gen Advisory Board:
Partner
Withers
Jennifer is a partner in the divorce and family team at Withers, specialising in legal issues arising from the breakdown of a relationship.
She is recognised as a Rising Star in the Legal 500 UK 2023 which said of her 'In an oustanding firm, she is the one to watch.' Jennifer's practice encompasses financial remedy cases (both for married couples and unmarried couples), disputes about how children should spend their time, relocation cases and prenuptial and postnuptial agreements. Many of her cases have an international dimension or involve trust interests or complex corporate structures, and clients come from many walks of life - often they are high-net worth individuals and sometimes in the public eye, wishing to stay out of in. Jennifer works with her clients sensitively and pragmatically to reach a settlment swiftly and amicably. She gives focussed no-nonsense advice, but is not afriad to fight tenaciously for her clients.
Withers
Barrister
1KBW
Max specialises in all areas of family finance and is ranked by both the Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners for his financial remedy work.
Max regularly deals with cases involving trusts & complex asset structures, claims under Schedule 1, TLATA and Part III, jurisdiction disputes and enforcement issues. He is comfortable both on his own or as a junior in a larger team.
He is an expert in the use of the Judgment Summons procedure having been junior counsel, and later sole counsel, for Sir Frederick Barclay in the long-running and widely reported Barclay enforcement proceedings.
1KBW
Partner
Kingsley Napley
Abby is a Partner in the Family and Divorce team who specialises in matters involving all aspects of private family law and in particular complex financial issues and private children cases.
Abby is recognised in Chambers UK, Chambers High Net Worth Guide, Legal 500 UK and Spear’s Family Law Index. She was shortlisted as Woman of the Year - Rising Star in the Powerwomen Awards.
Abby is a member of the Founding Committee for Thought Leaders4 HNW Divorce Next Generation committee and has spoken at and chaired numerous ThoughtLeaders4 events.
After reading English Literature at The University of Manchester, Abby went on to complete the Graduate Diploma in Law and the Legal Practice Course in Bloomsbury. Abby was a paralegal at a magic circle firm in their Mergers and Acquisitions team before commencing her training contract with a Lincoln’s Inn firm in 2008 and qualifying into their Family Team in 2010. Abby joined Kingsley Napley in 2012 and was made partner in 2020.
Kingsley Napley
Barrister
Serle Court
Emma has a broad commercial chancery practice, with a particular focus on domestic and offshore trust/probate litigation, civil fraud, and company disputes. She also advises and appears as specialist Chancery counsel in financial remedy proceedings. Emma is often instructed to act as sole counsel in cases in the High Court and the County Court. She is also regularly instructed as junior counsel in large-scale commercial and chancery litigation, both onshore and offshore, and has previously appeared (ad hoc) as junior counsel in the Supreme Court of Bermuda.
Serle Court
Barrister
29 Bedford Row
James practices in all areas of family law, with a particular specialism in financial remedy proceedings. He is frequently instructed in cases which feature complicated legal and factual issues, recently including void marriages, complex remuneration packages (such as RSUs and LTIPs), and nuptial settlements. He is recognised by solicitors for his careful navigation of technical issues and composed client care skills.
James has experience in being led by Silks, both from within 29 Bedford Row and from other chambers. He has conducted conferences, settlement meetings, and hearings in these cases against Silks, without his leader. He is instructed on appeals and the full spectrum of interim applications, and has appeared in the High Court.
In the year before joining chambers, James worked as a paralegal in the family department of Withers LLP assisting on several high value financial remedy cases.
29 Bedford Row
Partner
Maurice Turnor Gardner LLP
Eesha is a Private Wealth partner with a notably international client base, testament to her ability to navigate global matters and advise for the benefit of whole families.
Eesha advises individuals, trustees, beneficiaries and financial institutions on private wealth issues often involving international tax and trust matters. She also advises charities and philanthropists and executors and beneficiaries in relation to probates.
Maurice Turnor Gardner LLP
Senior Associate
Hughes Fowler Carruthers
Stacey joined Hughes Fowler Carruthers in 2020 after qualifying as a family solicitor at a London law firm in 2018.
Stacey advises on a wide range of family law matters including divorce, financial relief, emergency injunctions and private law children matters.
Stacey is adept at working with both international and domestic clients from a wide range of backgrounds including high net worth individuals. She deals regularly with complex financial disputes often involving high value business assets, offshore assets, trusts and inherited wealth.
Stacey is confident, calm and committed to achieving the best possible outcome for her clients by adopting a tailored approach to each case.
Stacey works with Mark Harper, Renato Labi and Alex Carruthers, who say she “combines a high level of technical ability with great client care skills”.
Hughes Fowler Carruthers
Partner
EY
Sandra is a Valuations Partner in EY’s London office (Valuations, Modelling and Economics team) and leads the Contentious Valuations team. She has provided expert witness work in valuation and damages claims for large international complex disputes for Litigation/High Court and International Arbitration globally across many sectors. She also provides Expert Determinations and acts in a Shadow Expert capacity and has substantial experience in commercial valuations for transactions/M&A and fundraising, restructuring, financial reporting, restructuring, and private equity. She is founder and author of the UK’s first and only M&A Yearbook “BVB Insights” a leading authoritative source for transaction multiples used by valuers in and out of Court, professional libraries and tax authorities. She is the UK Senior Vice President of American Society of Appraisers (European Chapter), and a regular speaker on Business Valuation topics. Sandra also sits on the Standards Review Board of the International Valuations Standards Council and is President of the UK’s first dedicated business valuation VPO (Valuation Professional Organisation) BVIUK.
EY
Partner
Farrer & Co
Amy Radnor is a Partner in the family team at Farrers. She has 15 years’ experience representing clients in all areas of family law, ranging from highly contentious and high value financial litigation, to pre-nuptial agreements, to international, cross-border children work. On the financial side, the majority of her cases have an international element and will involve trusts and/or corporate structures. Amy has wide experience acting for intervenors and trustees who become involved in litigation between spouses, as well as advising family offices, trustees, and family members “behind the scenes” on how these issues can best be avoided for the future.
Farrer & Co
Senior Associate
Family Law in Partnership
Grace advises HNW and UHNW individuals on all aspects of private family law including financial and children matters and pre and post nuptial agreements. Her work has a strong international dimension and many of her cases involve substantial business interests and trust structures. Grace has been ranked consistently as a “Rising Star” by the Legal 500.
Grace advises on international and high-value family law cases, often involving complex business and trust interests and issues of pre and post-marital wealth. Grace combines an empathetic and diligent approach, with a strong technical ability. Grace seeks to resolve matters outside of court where possible – employing solicitor-led negotiation or alternative processes such as mediation or arbitration. Where court proceedings become necessary, Grace is a confident and strategic litigator and hugely protective of her clients’ interests.
During her training, Grace spent a year working in one of London’s most highly regarded private client teams. She developed a particular interest and expertise in trusts, property and estate planning which she draws on to inform her advice to her family law clients. She is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners and she achieved a Distinction in STEP’s Advanced Certificate, International Trusts: Law and Practice. As such, she is comfortable advising trustees and beneficiaries on how best to safeguard trust interests from claims on divorce.
Grace has particular experience working on ‘big money’ litigation in the High Court of Justice. Such cases often garner press interest and Grace has made and responded to applications for reporting restriction orders. Grace’s article “Protecting Reputations” was published on the Tatler Address Book in April 2022, with an article on “Litigation and Divorce” published in May 2024.
Family Law in Partnership
Senior Associate
Sinclair Gibson
Darren is a senior associate in the family department. He advises on all areas of family law and mainly handles complex, high value financial remedy work, often involving an international element. As such, Darren has vast experience in dealing with complicated commercial issues on divorce, including those involving businesses, trusts, pensions, and offshore entities. Darren also advises clients in relation to wealth preservation on marriage and cohabitation, including the preparation of pre and post-nuptial agreements.
Matters involving children also form an important part of Darren’s practice, and he advises clients on private law children matters including permission to relocate internationally.
The Legal 500 directory notes Darren to be “exceptional” and that he “deals with complex and sometimes very emotional matters in a simple and easy to understand manner, and he is very client friendly”.
Sinclair Gibson
Senior Associate
Hunter's Law
Eri advises on the full range of family law matters including divorce, financial claims, nuptial agreements and issues relating to children.
Many of Eri’s cases have an international element; she is experienced in advising international families and dealing with assets overseas. She also has experience of leave to remove cases.
As a member of Resolution, Eri seeks to resolve family disputes in a proactive and pragmatic manner, and works to achieve the best possible outcome for her clients. She encourages clients to reach a negotiated agreement where this is possible but is an experienced litigator should court proceedings become necessary.
Eri is consistently recognised as a recommended lawyer in the Legal 500, as ‘a star in the making‘ who is ‘exceptionally able for her years of qualification‘ (2025). She is fluent in Japanese and speaks proficient Italian.
Hunter's Law
Associate
Russell Cooke
Alexandra's international background, coupled with her language skills, allows her to empathise with clients’ diverse cultural perspectives and needs. She advises clients on all aspects of family law. This includes divorce and separation, financial settlements, pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements & cohabitation disputes. She also advises on matters involving children and family law act injunctions.
Alexandra regularly works with the senior members of the team to advise on more complex matters, including those that involve complex cross-border asset structures.
Alexandra works hard to resolve matters in the most constructive and amicable manner. However, if the court route is required, she will be a strong advocate to ensure that her client’s interests are represented.
Russell Cooke
Partner
Vaitilingam Kay
Thomas has wide experience in all aspects of family law with particular emphasis on financial issues following divorce. He also specialises in complex child related matters including child contact and residence applications, and overseas relocation applications.
He’s worked extensively instructing lawyers in different jurisdictions, and has managed a range of long-running, complicated cases, requiring long-term strategic planning and detailed implementation.
In 2022, he won a Citywealth Future Leaders Award, which recognises emerging talent and social contribution in young professionals in the wealth management industry.
Thomas joined the firm in February 2015, having trained and worked at Irwin Mitchell. He studied History at the University of Nottingham, before taking his professional examinations at Nottingham Law School and gaining a distinction. He qualified in 2014.
Vaitilingam Kay
Associate
Harbottle & Lewis
Polly is a ‘Rising Star’, with a wide range of experience on all aspects of private family law with significant experience in complex disputes and those in the public eye.
She regularly assists clients in divorce and financial claims involving substantial international assets and detailed financial analysis.
In children cases, Polly has experience with allegations of parental alienation and coercive control. Her background and experience includes cases with the involvement of social workers and other services.
Polly has worked on many cases which have been the subject of public interest, and regularly assists clients in considering the risks of public proceedings, as well as alternatives to court.
Harbottle & Lewis
Senior Associate
Withers
Saf is a senior associate in the family team at Withers.
He advises clients on all aspects of family law, with a particular focus on complex financial disputes arising out of divorce, civil partnership dissolution and the separation of cohabiting couples, often with an international element. He also has a particular interest in the drafting and negotiation of cross-border pre- and post-nuptial agreements.
Saf has written for a number of publications on a wide variety of family law issues, including The Independent, The Family Law Journal and AIAF Magazine. He sits on the National Committee for YRes and he has been named as an 'Associate to Watch' by Chambers HNW/UHNW (2023) and as a 'Rising Star' by Legal 500 (2024).
Withers
Senior Associate
Kingsley Napley
Sarah is a Senior Associate in Kingsley Napley’s family and divorce team, where she specialises in complex divorce and financial work as well as private children cases.
Her practice includes all aspects of private family work and the majority of her clients have international connections. Sarah specialises in divorce and matrimonial finance disputes, including in particular those which contain complex pension issues. She also regularly deals with high conflict cases relating to children’s arrangements and financial provision for children, including international and domestic relocations and child abduction. Sarah has a particular interest in adoption and surrogacy matters and regularly advises parents who wish to apply for parental orders following the birth of their child.
Sarah trained at Bindmans LLP and qualified in 2015. Prior to her training contract, she worked as a paralegal in the commercial litigation team at a large regional firm. Sarah read law at the University of Sheffield and completed her LPC at the University of Law in Bloomsbury, obtaining a distinction.
Sarah was recognised in the Spear's Family Law Index 2021 and 2022 as a "Rising Star"
Kingsley Napley
Legal Director
Payne Hicks Beach
Katie advises in all areas of private family law, with a particular focus on resolving financial matters between divorcing/divorced couples and unmarried parents
Many of the disputes Katie deals with have complex financial and/or international elements.
Katie is ranked as a Leading Associate in The Legal 500 UK 2025 in the category of Family Law.
Katie read Chemistry & Law at Bristol University. Katie trained at Sears Tooth, qualifying in 2013. She joined Payne Hicks Beach in 2019 and was promoted to senior associate in the same year.
Payne Hicks Beach
Partner
Fladgate
Joshua is a family lawyer with expertise in all aspects of divorce, financial remedies and the law relating to children, including international child abduction cases. He also specialises in the law relating to cohabitees as well as pre, mid and post nuptial agreements. He was ranked in the 2022 Legal 500 Guide as a ‘Rising Star’ and the 2023 Legal 500 Guide as a ‘Next Generation Partner’, the latter adding: “Joshua Moger is fantastic. He is tactically astute, intelligent and gives robust advice.”
He is passionate about Family Law and acts for a very broad range of clients, whether home maker, bread winner, mother or father. His clients or their spouses are entrepreneurs, celebrities, trustees, private equity partners, city professionals, bankers, venture capitalists and those in the art world (amongst many others.) He recognises that the individual needs of each and every client are different and their interests are front and centre of everything he does. He usually acts for high net worth and ultra-high net worth individuals, including cases involving an international element or other complexity such as trust structures, offshore assets or dynastic estate planning (UK and abroad).
Fladgate
Partner
Hughes Fowler Carruthers
Lauren provides specialist legal advice on all aspects of family law including divorce, financial arrangements on relationship breakdown, private law children matters and pre-nuptial, post-nuptial and cohabitation agreements.
Lauren is adept at dealing with complex and high net worth financial matters, the majority of which have an international angle. She has considerable experience in matters involving trust structures, family businesses and complex tax issues.
Lauren’s practice also includes private law children disputes, including international relocation and living arrangements.
Lauren has a particular interest in EU law. She is a member of Resolution’s International Committee and was a key contributor to the work of Resolution’s Brexit Working Party.
Lauren guides clients with practical and intelligent advice. She is astute, thorough and determined to find a path through complicated situations to achieve solutions for her clients, whether through negotiation, litigation, mediation or arbitration.
Lauren joined Hughes Fowler Carruthers in 2015 after qualifying as a solicitor in 2013 and became a partner in September 2024.
Hughes Fowler Carruthers
Barrister
QEB
Joe’s practice covers all areas of private family law, with a focus on financial remedies (including cases brought under TLATA 1996). Joe is ranked as a leading matrimonial finance junior in both Chambers and Partners and The Legal 500. He is described as ‘supremely intelligent’, ‘highly technical’, ‘exceptionally hard working’, ‘persuasive and powerful’ and ‘calm and confident under pressure’. He has appeared solo in several multi-day High Court trials, where he has been commended by the Court for his “conspicuous skill”. He has recently appeared in the Supreme Court, led by Tim Amos KC.
Joe is frequently led by silks and senior juniors both in and out of Chambers. He has also successfully appeared alone against leading silks in contested financial remedy cases. He has a particular interest in cases involving complex asset structures, pensions, international dimensions and enforcement issues.
Joe is unabashedly passionate about his work. He is on the editorial board of At A Glance and The Financial Remedies Journal, and is also a member of the Pensions Advisory Group (‘PAG’). He is a contributor to the third edition of International Trust and Divorce Litigation, LexisNexis, 2019. He writes periodically for a number of leading journals and websites. His writing has, on occasion, been referenced and approved by the judiciary: see for example KM v CV [2020] EWFC B22. He lectures frequently on a range of topics.
QEB
Legal Director
Birketts
Laura is a Legal Director in our Property Litigation department and leads the firm’s Home Ownership Disputes and TOLATA practice.
Laura has a wealth of experience advising private individuals on equitable disputes, such as in the specialist field of cohabitee / co-ownership disputes, where the issues involved are often of a sensitive nature. She is frequently called upon to advise on applications under the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 (‘TOLATA’), regularly acting for separating couples. Her niche TOLATA experience is recognised by Chambers and Partners [UK 2021], in which the wider Property Litigation department is ranked in ‘Band 1’ as a leading regional team. Laura’s specialist experience also extends to resolving high-value disputes brought under the doctrine of ‘proprietary estoppel’, often concerning broken promises regarding the family business or farm.
Laura is a recognised leader in her field with a proven track record of resolving complex equitable and property trust disputes. She is an effective negotiator with considerable experience in round-table discussions and mediation.
Laura is recommended and named as a ‘Leading Associate’ by Legal 500 [UK 2025].
Laura’s expertise also includes a broad array of real property, chancery, and landlord and tenant work.
Laura is a member of both the Property Litigation Association and Resolution (a national network of family lawyers committed to the constructive resolution of family disputes).
Laura has authored several articles for the Property Law Journal, Local Government Lawyer, and Solicitors Journal on a wide range of property related issues, including co-ownership disputes over jointly held property under the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996.
In her spare time, Laura is a Governor of Abbot’s Hall Community Primary School in Stowmarket.
Birketts
Barrister
Pump Court Chambers
Samara has a busy practice comprising of family finance (including Schedule 1), private children, contested divorce and jurisdictional disputes.
She is frequently instructed by the same client for both their finance and children disputes and understands the importance of continuity of counsel. Samara is mindful that settlement will often be in a client’s best interests and she provides robust advice where required. She welcomes a collaborative approach with her instructing solicitors and clients and is happy to advise at any stage of litigation.
Samara is recognised for her expertise in the Spear’s 500 Family Law Barristers Index 2024, where she features as a ‘Top Recommended’ barrister and in the Legal 500 2025 as a ‘Leading Junior’.
Samara sits as the Bar Representative on the Hampshire YRes committee and is a member of the Resolution Cohabitation Committee, which aims to promote knowledge and reform on the law for cohabiting couples. She is a regular guest on chambers’ podcast, The Family Law Podcast and frequently gives seminars on relevant family law topics.
Pump Court Chambers
Barrister
1KBW
Frances has a decade of experience at the family bar. Her practice encompasses all areas of family law.
She is often instructed in difficult cases. She frequently acts for clients who face serious allegations of domestic and sexual abuse or in complicated financial litigation involving third parties or complex trust structures.
Frances often works with clients (in both children and finance matters) who reside in other jurisdictions and has spent time advising in Jersey. In 2019 she won a prestigious Pegasus Scholarship, which enabled her to work in India for several months. Whilst in India Frances divided her time between the Supreme Court of India, the Delhi High Court and the Delhi Commission for Women. Her work comprised everything from observing cases which are of interest to the international community at large (namely the litigation arising out of current crisis in Kashmir) to considering measures to improve police responses to allegations of domestic violence and assisting with advocacy training workshops for law students in Delhi.
Frances advises and acts in proceedings relating to all areas of family finance, including applications pursuant to Schedule 1 to the Children Act 1989, TOLATA 1996 and enforcement (a topic on which she has given seminars to groups of solicitors).
Frances is equally comfortable being instructed as junior counsel in matters relating to high net worth individuals as she is acting and advising on her own, in both big and small money cases.
1KBW
Partner
Myersons (Jersey)
Jamie has recently moved to the specialist family practice of Myersons in Jersey. Jamie is regularly instructed by high net worth individuals, dealing predominantly with divorce and complex private law children cases. He has regularly appeared in the Jersey Court of Appeal as well as the Privy Council where he has been successful in each appearance. His experience further includes complex financial matters involving overseas assets and offshore companies, cross jurisdictional children’s matters, (including Hague Convention proceedings), as well as complicated contact and residence private law children matters also comprising parental alienation. Jamie is also a trained mediator.
Jamie has been ranked as a Next Generation Partner for two years running in the Legal 500. He has also been named as one of the eprivateclient Channel Islands’ Top 35 Under 35’s in 2019, shortlisted for Family Lawyer of the Year in 2020 by Citywealth and named in the Citywealth Top 100 Future Leader awards.
Myersons (Jersey)
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