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Boodle Hatfield LLP

Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth

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Boodle Hatfield LLP

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Boodle Hatfield's leading family team advises wealthy individuals on all stages of their relationship, guiding them through the complexities of their unique circumstances and seamlessly combining their family law experience with advice on property, tax, private finances, and businesses, both in the UK and internationally. The team is renowned for their 'exceptional legal finesse combined with an ability to vigorously defend [their] client’s best interests in a calm and measured way'. Their specialities lie in cases involving complex assets and structures including family businesses, offshore trusts, private equity and hedge funds and are adept in guiding clients though living together agreements, marriage, financial disputes, pre and post-nuptial agreements, divorce, separation and child custody.

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Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth - UK-wide

Band 3

What the Team is Known For
Boodle Hatfield's family law team receives strong recommendations from clients and peers for its ability to handle high-value, complex cross-border matters.
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Strengths

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  • Boodle Hatfield is super strong in terms of breadth. It has good talent from top to bottom.

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  • It's a highly skilled yet approachable firm.

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  • There's great strength in depth and excellent support from Boodle Hatfield's private client team. The team are capable of handling complex matters and understand the issues and are able to deal with them.

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Notable Practitioners

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  • Emily Brand
    Emily Brand

    Emily Brand

    Emily Brand leads the Boodle Hatfield family department and is well regarded for her matrimonial practice. She is often instructed by affluent clients to deal with nuptial agreements, divorce proceedings and financial remedy disputes.

    • Emily Brand is one of the sharpest minds in family law.

      Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth respondentHigh Net Worth

    • Emily Brand is very commercially astute, takes the client with her and has very good judgement. Clients appreciate what she does, as she's knowledgeable and takes the right points.

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  • James Ferguson
    James Ferguson

    James Ferguson

    James Ferguson regularly handles high-end matrimonial finance matters that are often cross-border in scope.

    • James Ferguson has good judgement on where the case will end up and has bags of experience.

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  • Katie O'Callaghan
    Katie O'Callaghan

    Katie O'Callaghan

    Katie O'Callaghan often acts for affluent clients on cross-border matrimonial instructions.

    • Katie O'Callaghan is so good and has the combination of being very calm and reassuring. She gives very clear advice and will fight a client's corner appropriately.

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    • Katie is an excellent lawyer. She works hard for her clients but is also practical and solution-focused.

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  • William Rollin
    William Rollin

    William Rollin

    William Rollin routinely acts on high-value divorce and financial remedy proceedings.

    • William is a quality practitioner, consistently securing good outcomes for his clients and working collaboratively both within the firm and with external parties.
      Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth respondentHigh Net Worth

    • William is extremely detail-oriented, the papers are impeccable and as counsel, you feel you can trust him.

      Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth respondentHigh Net Worth

    • William Rollin is possibly the most organised person I've ever met. He has an incredibly organised mind, with a tidy way of structuring his case and practice. He has a strategic and logical approach to everything, which is his standout strength. William is thorough, methodical, assumes nothing and is a mastermind of strategy, especially for complex litigation.

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  • Alexandra Hirst
    Alexandra Hirst

    Alexandra Hirst

    Alexandra Hirst is a senior associate on the Boodle Hatfield family law team.

    • Alexandra Hirst is very efficient and diligent.

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  • Katie Male
    Katie Male

    Katie Male

    Katie Male is a senior associate in the Boodle Hatfield family department who advises on nuptial agreements, divorce and financial remedy proceedings, and asset protection.

    • Katie Male is a star!

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