About

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As an established and market leading family law firm, we pride at providing the best family and divorce legal advice. We have family law specialists who have extensive experience, and a depth of rising stars. 


For us, it is all about providing a very high level of client service. Our clients tell us that they value our ability to communicate complex issues in a pragmatic, innovative and positive way. We provide an all-round, integrated service, covering not just family law but every other service required by individuals involved in a divorce, including tax, private client, contentious trusts and international issues. Our reputation management experts can ensure that your privacy is protected at such a sensitive time.


Our team of professional family and divorce solicitors operates at the forefront of family law. We have been involved with a number of ground-breaking cases, which have established the current law. These include the leading Supreme Court case on pre-nuptial agreements, and the leading Court of Appeal decision on piercing the corporate veil.   


We act for both domestic and international clients. Many of our cases involve complex cross-border issues, sophisticated asset protection structures and trust and tax issues.

Chambers Review

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

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Band 2

What the Team is Known For

Farrer & Co has a highly regarded family department with a breadth of experience handling complex, multi-jurisdictional matters.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Claire Gordon
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Claire Gordon
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Band 1
Claire Gordon is highly sought after to advise on complex divorce and nuptial agreements.

Claire Gordon is unsurpassed as a lawyer in her field. Her combination of epic intellect and deep humanity is spellbinding.

Claire Gordon is very calm and measured. She is a real tactical thinker. She gets her ducks in a row and thinks about the angles before issuing proceedings.

Claire Gordon is extremely poised, careful and considered in the advice she gives to clients. She is also pragmatic and commercial, and will settle where she has to.

Claire is ridiculously approachable. She really has a team spirit and backs her team. Clients just love her, as well as her being very skilled. She's one of my favourites to work with.

William Massey
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William Massey
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Band 1
William Massey wins praise as a leading practitioner for complex family matters.

William Massey is the most charming man and can do good deals through charisma, trust and respect.

William Massey is just really experienced and really commercially minded. He looks to settle on really good terms for client.

Caroline Holley
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Caroline Holley
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Band 2
Caroline Holley advises on a comprehensive range of family matters including financial disputes.

Caroline Holley is a brilliant lawyer. She is extremely good at the detail and she fights for her clients really hard. She has a great rapport with clients and is an excellent team player.

Caroline Holley is unflappable and an extremely knowledgeable specialist.

Caroline Holley is a robust lawyer whose clients have complete faith that she is in their corner. She gives them a huge amount of confidence that they are looked after.

Caroline Holley has got really good vision on a case: she's very strategic and has an immense overview. She has it all mapped out from the beginning.

Sarah Hutchinson
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Sarah Hutchinson
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Band 2
Sarah Hutchinson is held in high regard for her considerable experience handling high net worth family cases.

Sarah Hutchinson is an extremely bright, committed, warm and empathetic person.

She undertakes a caseload of complexity and sensitivity with skill and dedication. She has phenomenal strategic comprehension, and is extremely well regarded for her integrity and judgement.

Sarah Hutchinson will fight her client's corner. She's very good at empathising with clients, and she knows client's case inside out.

Edward Floyd
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Edward Floyd
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Band 3
Edward Floyd is noted for his work advising affluent clients on the full spectrum of family law matters.

Clients are really supported by him.

Edward Floyd has legendary attention to detail. He is charming and always brilliantly prepared for court. Despite being a partner, no one knows the papers better than he does!

Frederick Tatham
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Frederick Tatham
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Band 3
Frederick Tatham continues to advise on a broad range of family law matters for high net worth clients.

Frederick Tatham has a fabulously calm manner and nothing flusters him. He has a level of seriousness for very high-value cases. A superb partner, he brings forceful personality and charm.

Frederick Tatham is competent beyond words across multiple skills and able to smooth the way through huge complexity towards a pragmatic solution.

Frederick is very calm and very measured. If we're in the middle of a very tricky case that is very frustrating, even in the face of the most ridiculous things, he is calm and measured with clients.

Amy Radnor
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Amy Radnor
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Band 4
Amy Radnor comes highly praised for her experience in matrimonial finance matters.

Amy Radnor is a really diligent and hard-working lawyer. She went the extra mile to make sure every aspect was prepared thoroughly.

Amy Radnor was responsive and always made me feel like her most important client. I felt she was ethical and responsible in her advice, and yet got me an amazing outcome.

Amy Radnor presents her client’s case calmly, robustly and effectively. She is firm but kind in her client management and has a knack of helping clients focus on a pragmatic and commercial resolution.

Flora Harragin
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Flora Harragin
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Band 5

Flora is a well-regarded junior partner who handles complex matrimonial finance proceedings.

Flora Harragin is warm and charismatic with clients and the opposition. She is hugely knowledgeable about all sorts of obscure areas of law, in both financial remedy and international children work.

Flora Harragin is a very sensible and pragmatic lawyer. She has got a great legal brain but also a brilliant way with clients.

John Davies
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John Davies
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Up and Coming

John Davies focuses his practice on contentious and non-contentious family issues, with particular expertise in international matters.

John Davies is very good with clients and has a nice bedside manner. The case runs like clockwork with him.

John Davies is very humble, down to earth, and brilliant academically and in terms of strategy and litigation.

Ranked Individuals at
Farrer & Co LLP

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UK-wide

Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth

Claire Gordon
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Claire Gordon
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Band 1
William Massey
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William Massey
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Band 1
Caroline Holley
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Caroline Holley
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Band 2
Sarah Hutchinson
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Sarah Hutchinson
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Band 2
Edward Floyd
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Edward Floyd
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Band 3
Frederick Tatham
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Frederick Tatham
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Band 3
Amy Radnor
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Amy Radnor
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Band 4
Flora Harragin
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Flora Harragin
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Band 5
John Davies
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John Davies
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Up and Coming