Chambers Review
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Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth - London (Firms)
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.
Strengths
Boodle Hatfield are knowledgeable and ultra efficient, but kind and thoughtful. From front of house to associate, everyone feels like they are on your team and on the same page.
Boodle Hatfield take a commercial view on matters which is pragmatic for clients.
Boodle Hatfield are particularly good at handling complex cases, especially with an overseas dimension. Their anticipation of issues and laser focus are second to none.
Notable practitioners
Emily Brand leads the 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 does significant cases and clients like her. She is marvellous and tactically brilliant.
Emily is thorough, takes her client's case very seriously, is engaged and is sympathetic to her client. She correctly recognises where there are problems in the case and doesn't give up easily.
Emily is a force to be reckoned with. Strategic and clever with figures and a thorough business understanding. Emily always seeks to find the optimum answer and keep one's case strategically on track.
James Ferguson regularly handles high-end matrimonial finance matters that are often cross-border in scope.
James is about as experienced as you can possibly be in these matters. He is a tough lawyer with an enormous amount of expertise for high-value, complex matters.
James is wily and experienced. He gives good advice and recognises where you need to fight in cases.
Katie O'Callaghan often acts for affluent clients on cross-border matrimonial instructions.
Katie is pragmatic and easy to work with, while always having her client's best interests at the forefront.
Katie O'Callaghan is excellent.
Katie is an exceptional lawyer and has a collaborative approach. She's also really user-friendly.
William Rollin has considerable experience in high net worth divorce proceedings and related financial disputes.
William has a confident, self-assured demeanour with clients.
William is polite and courteous to every client, he knows the law inside out and he is really pragmatic and sensible.
William is my go-to lawyer for clients with family issues. He is terrific all round.
William is brilliant and a family law expert, with a particular specialism in international family proceedings.
Alexandra Hirst is a senior associate on the Boodle Hatfield family law team.
Boodle Hatfield have an unbelievable associate in Alexandra Hirst; she is superb.
Katie Male is a senior associate in the family department who advises on nuptial agreements, divorce and financial remedy proceedings, and asset protection.
Katie is very intelligent, with one of best analytical minds I have dealt with. She has a great ability to read what is going on from the papers and understand complex financial situations.
Katie is an exceptional lawyer, at ease with complex issues, good at explaining the options and consequences and is reasoned, empathetic and protective of a client under her instruction.
Katie has a complete mastery of details in a case.