The Second Annual HNW Divorce Next Gen Summit

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.

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.

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.

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).

George Mathieson founded Mathieson Consulting Ltd (MCL) in 2007, as a company specialising in the provision of expert witness reports in the field of pensions and divorce and has personally written c. 3,500 such reports. He was a founder of the Pension Advisory Group, which was a multi-disciplinary body of lawyers, judges, actuaries, financial advisers, and academics, which produced the seminal work on how pensions should be dealt with within divorce proceedings and has now been adopted by Courts across England and Wales as “best practice.”

His current role is as a Consultant for MCL, and Divisional Director for MCL’s parent company, RBC Brewin Dolphin, where his responsibilities include being actively involved with lawyers advising them how a divorce settlement (pertaining to pensions) may be best constructed to the benefit of their client. 

Prior to completing pupillage and joining the Bar, Aimee was an associate at magic circle law firm, Clifford Chance LLP in Brussels.

Aimee is ranked as a leading lawyer by the Legal 500 in all of her areas of practice and takes instructions for cases across the UK. She is also ranked in Chambers & Partners.

Aimee specialises exclusively in Family Law and Education Law. She handles an established practice specialising in financial remedies and private law proceedings.  She is often instructed for her expertise in education law (SEN) to assist on related Children Act and financial matters where children have additional needs.

Aimee’s financial remedy work has included a variety of high value disputes. Aimee has also been instructed on a schedule 1 application with significant international elements and an unusual case involving the enforcement of a German child maintenance order. She continues to be in constant demand for her expertise in complex and highly sensitive cases.

Aimee has extensive experience in tribunals relating to EHC Plans. She has also been successful in a number of judicial reviews and appeals to the Upper Tribunal. Aimee’s expertise is such that she is often invited to train other practitioners and was invited to speak on Education Law at the Annual Conference of Chartered Paediatric Physiotherapists at the Emirates Stadium.

Simon is highly regarded by both clients and his peers, he brings his considerable expertise to bear to help separating couples resolve issues in a constructive manner. He has a particular strength in complex financial cases, often involving trusts, family businesses and assets in more than one jurisdiction.

Working closely with colleagues in the private wealth sector to provide a seamless service to high net worth individuals and their families, Simon is able to advise on the family law aspects of wealth protection, including prenuptial and cohabitation agreements. He has a thriving children law practice and has assisted parents in all aspects of the law relating to children. He has a specialist interest in the cross-border movement of children and frequently provides guidance on international surrogacy and applications for parental orders.

Simon is an elected member of the national committee of Resolution, the leading membership organisation for specialist family lawyers, and is the organisation’s treasurer.

Simon is recognised as a 'Next Generation Partner' in The Legal 500 2023 edition and is ranked in the Chambers UK and HNW guides for his work on sophisticated financial cases, many with a trust-related, family business or multi-jurisdictional element. He is recognised as a 'Recommended Lawyer' in the Spear's 500 2022 directory.

Nick Dent is a Managing Associate in the White Collar Crime & Investigations Group.

Nick has significant experience representing individuals suspected of having committed serious and general criminal offences in investigations and trials conducted by the Police, the Serious Fraud Office, the Financial Conduct Authority and other agencies.

Nick has particular expertise in discretely handling sensitive cases for individuals who value their reputation and privacy as well as for those who work within regulated sectors.

Nick is familiar with defending individuals against a wide range of criminal allegations which often arise as a result of an individual's employment or relationship breakdown.  He has a particular focus on providing pre-charge advice and representation in order to achieve an early conclusion to a criminal investigation. In addition, Nick has extensive experience of successfully defending his clients following a trial as well as successfully appealing against sentences and convictions. 

Nick is named in the Legal 500 in 2022 for Crime and is ranked as an Associate to Watch by Chambers and Partners 2022 for Crime which states that he is "a force of nature who pursues cases vociferously and leaves no stone unturned - he can find an argument where there was none to be found."

Nick is also the editor of the chapter "The Decision to Charge" in the leading practitioner text, Blackstone's Criminal Practice 2023.

Alexandra is a Senior Associate in the Family and Divorce team with experience of all types of private family law work relating to both finances and children.
 

Alexandra has particular experience in complex financial issues and private children cases in cases involving multifaceted financial disputes often involving trust and off-shore assets, businesses, family wealth or inheritance, pre and postnuptial agreements, all issues concerning the arrangements for children, particularly cases involving parental alienation, intractable contact disputes, relocation within or outside of England and Wales and financial provision for children, international elements including international relocation (also known as leave to remove), cross border matrimonial disputes and jurisdiction races.

Alexandra offers practical and realistic advice and provides excellent care for her clients, working through technical legal problems pro-actively to achieve the best possible result.  She was recently recognised for her work in Legal 500 2019, one of the leading legal directories in the UK.

She works closely with Kingsley Napley’s criminal team to support clients where family and criminal issues need to be considered in tandem.

After reading Theology at Durham University, Alexandra went on to complete the Graduate Diploma in Law and the Legal Practice Course at BPP Holborn both with Distinction. Alexandra trained at Kingsley Napley and qualified into the Family and Divorce team in September 2015.

Nicole is a Senior Associate in the firm’s Matrimonial and Family Department. Having two decades of family law experience, Nicole is an expert in helping clients resolve their issues in the least stressful and most cost effective way possible.

Nicole is a trained collaborative practitioner and a member of the Collaborative Law Alliance of Bermuda and the International Academy of Collaborative Practitioners. The aim of the collaborative law process is to resolve your legal issues without court proceedings, and to reach settlement in a respectful and non-adversarial way.

Nicole worked in both Hong Kong and the UK before joining MJM in 2022. She brings a wide-ranging knowledge of international family law to the team, with the key focus being on resolving financial disputes and putting in place the best arrangements for children. When children are embroiled in a family breakdown, Nicole understands the importance of reducing the impact and potential trauma involved.

During her time in Asia, Nicole’s work with business families put her in good stead for the legal landscape in Bermuda, particularly in relation to high net worth individuals, nuptial agreements, both prior to marriage and post separation, and trust disputes arising in the context of divorce proceedings.

Nicole works closely with her clients to ensure a legal strategy is in place from the outset. This approach ensures that those involved will to continue to move forward, even after the case has concluded.
Prior to joining MJM, Nicole worked with Maples Group and in the top-tier rated family department of a large independent Hong Kong law firm.

Oliver advises trustees, protectors, high-net-worth individuals, charities and beneficiaries in a broad range of domestic and offshore trust and estates disputes, including claims relating to breach of trust, sham, mistake and challenges to trusts on divorce or insolvency. He also advises on trustees’ applications for rectification, directions or construction issues, variation of trusts applications and applications for the removal of trustees.

Oliver is a member of the Association of Contentious Trusts and Probate and regularly writes for legal publications specialising in trust and estate matters. He co-authors the trust litigation chapter in the STEP-approved loose-leaf Planning and Administration of Offshore and Onshore Trusts and is a member of the ‘LexisNexis panel of Private Client experts’.

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.

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. 

Cerisse is a Group Partner in our International Private Client and Trust department, joining in September 2018.

She specialises in all aspects of Guernsey trust and private client law and regularly advises trustees, family offices, high net worth individuals and intermediaries on the creation, restructuring and winding up of trusts and a wide scope of cross-jurisdictional fiduciary transactions.

Craig specialises in financial remedies, including applications pursuant to Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989, applications under TOLATA and inheritance actions, with particular expertise in cases involving farms, trusts, business assets.

Craig is well placed to act in matters where there is an overlap between family and civil work. In addition, he undertakes the full range of Children Act proceedings with particular emphasis on removal from the jurisdiction and international child abduction and relocation as well as Court of Protection work.

Craig has considerable experience of dealing with high-value and complex matters from County Court to Court of Appeal level.

He is recognised as a tenacious, well prepared advocate with a calm and assured manner who is renowned for his expertise and exceptional client care skills.

Craig is authorised to accept public access instructions in appropriate cases.

Georgina has a broad family law practice and welcomes instructions in relation to financial remedies, private children, TLATA and Family Law Act disputes. 

Georgina joined chambers in October 2017, after completing her pupillage under the supervision of Nicholas Yates, Christian Kenny and Nicholas Wilkinson. During her pupillage, she observed and assisted in litigation and negotiations across the spectrum of chambers' practice areas. This included three 'big money' cases in the High Court and one in the Court of Appeal. During the practising part of her pupillage, she appeared in the High Court in her own right, and was led by other members of chambers. 

Georgina represents clients at court at all stages of proceedings, as well as undertaking advisory and drafting work as required. 

Alex is a founding partner in 2001 of Hughes Fowler Carruthers, the top tier niche family law practice. Alex specialises in English family law, complex divorce, and financial work and children’s work, in particular international cases. His clients are high net worth individuals with complex legal issues including trusts and jurisdictional disputes, Alex in featured in Spears’ Family Law Index’s ‘Top Recommended Family Lawyers’ list and is also listed in Tatler Address Book’s advisory as one of the leading family lawyers in their trusted network of influential and elite private client experts with “gilt-edged” expertise. He regularly lectures on the interface between divorce and trusts. He is highly recommended by peer review publications and has been involved in a number of high profile and ground-breaking legal cases. Alex has been a regular in Chambers’ band 1 for many years. Chambers UK 2023 quotes a contributor as stating that "He is sharp, incisive and astute; he is tactically brilliant and extremely patient.".

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. 

Eleanor Haidon advises on all aspects of private family law including divorce, financial claims on relationship breakdown, nuptial agreements and private law children matters.

Prior to joining Harbottle & Lewis Eleanor trained at one of the leading sets of family law chambers in the country and is a qualified barrister

Kathryn is a Senior Associate at Vaitilingam Kay, with experience in dealing with complex divorce, finance and children matters as well as domestic and international surrogacy. She is also a legal advisor to Surviving Economic Abuse, the only UK charity dedicated to raising awareness of economic abuse and transforming responses to it. 

Emma Fenn is a specialist criminal defence barrister with a particular interest in financial crime, serious violence and child abuse cases. She is regularly instructed in a wide range of criminal cases in courts across London and throughout the rest of the country.

She also conducts advisory work in relation to appeals and CCRC applications. Emma is consistently ranked in Chambers & Partners and the Legal 500.

In 2022, Emma was appointed to sit part-time as a Recorder on the South Eastern Circuit (Crime).

Thomas Haggie is a highly in demand junior with a specialist practice in financial remedies work, particularly regarded for his legal analysis, and strategic and forensic acumen.

He is an in demand financial remedy specialist, with experience in trust and company disputes. Tom is also known for his expertise in financial provision for children, applications under TLATA 1996, and Inheritance Act disputes. Particularly regarded for his legal analysis, strategic and forensic acumen. Tom has experience at all levels of tribunal, including in the Business and Property courts, and is regularly led as junior counsel both in and out of chambers.

James is a silk who has been ranked for many years in the professional directories as a barrister specialising in “heavy” and complex financial remedy cases.

He is also ranked in relation to children work particularly with an international element. He is extremely numerate and is a formidable advocate. He sits as a part-time Judge hearing complex cases in the Financial Remedy Unit at the Central Family Court. He is Treasurer of the Family Law Bar Association.

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).

Luke read Theology at Durham University, before attending law school in London and joining Payne Hicks Beach in 2015. He was taken on as a newly qualified solicitor by the Family Department in 2017, and promoted to a Senior Associate in 2023.

During his time at PHB, he has worked most for Baroness Shackleton and Ben Parry-Smith. In recent years, Luke has been consistently recommended by the Legal 500 as a “Key Lawyer”, commenting that “Luke Scarratt is a junior well worth a mention. He is intelligent, strategic, and hard working. Definitely a name for the future.”

Luke recognises that each family is unique and accordingly that each case requires a bespoke approach. Guided by the principle of fairness, and working with his brilliant colleagues at PHB, Luke seeks to resolve disputes in a civilised and consensual manner. However, Luke is conscious that consensus is sometimes impossible to achieve, and therefore the court’s determination will be required to bring matters to a head. In that context, Luke has experience in almost any court arena – from dealing with child arrangements in a local county court, to being part of the team representing HRH Princess Haya in the Court of Appeal.

Luke’s work represents the full spectrum of family law work: divorce, finances, children, relocation, same-sex couples, cohabitation issues, and nuptial agreements. There are often international elements to his caseload – particularly in relation to offshore trusts.

Luke writes widely on his work, and has been published in the New Law Journal. His articles touch on family businesses, parental alienation, the treatment of trusts on divorce and the loss of mental capacity.

Lucia’s practice encompasses the full breadth of finance and children work. Lucia has extensive experience in all areas of matrimonial finance, including cases involving complex trust and company structures, schedule 1 and TLATA. In children matters, she has particular expertise in intractable contact disputes, matters involving complex psychological issues, and extended fact-finding hearings.

'Lucia is clear and precise, and her proportionate view of cases leads to effective resolution.’ – Legal 500, 2024

Tom’s financial remedies practice encompasses matrimonial finance, Schedule 1 applications, cohabitation claims and claims under the Inheritance Act, and he has sat as a tribunal in private FDRs. Tom also practises in all areas of private children law. He is a ranked Junior in Chambers and Partners 2024 for both matrimonial finance and children. 

“Polished and impressive on his feet. Judges respect and listen to him and clients trust him. He prepares thoroughly and considers every aspect of the case.” – Chambers & Partners, 2024

Alex accepts instructions in all areas of private family law, specialising mainly in financial remedy work.  She has experience across the full breadth of matrimonial finance, Schedule 1 applications and TLATA. Alex has appeared unled in the High Court, and has been led in cases involving complex company valuation issues and trust structures. She is frequently instructed in children matters in parallel to financial proceedings, with a particular focus on intractable contact disputes.