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Farrer & Co LLP

Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth

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Farrer & Co LLP

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Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth - London (Firms)

Band 2

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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  • The team at Farrer & Co are all exceptionally good at what they do. They have a very strong client base. I never come across anyone there who is anything other than extremely competent.

    Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth respondentUK
  • In addition to excellent training, they have solid experience that transmits a lot of peace of mind to the client.

    Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth respondentUK
  • I appreciate the incredible calibre of the people combined with the unmatched heritage of Farrer & Co and its exclusive brand. They're exceptionally talented people with brilliant energy as a team.

    Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth respondentUK

Notable Practitioners

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  • Band 1Claire Gordon
    Band 1Claire Gordon

    Claire Gordon

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

      Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth respondentUK
    • Claire Gordon is unsurpassed as a lawyer in her field. Her combination of epic intellect and deep humanity is spellbinding.

      Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth respondentUK
    • 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.

      Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth respondentUK
    • 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.

      Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth respondentUK
  • Band 1William Massey
    Band 1William Massey

    William Massey

    William Massey wins praise as a leading practitioner for complex family matters.
    • William Massey is just really experienced and really commercially minded. He looks to settle on really good terms for client.

      Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth respondentUK
    • William Massey is the most charming man and can do good deals through charisma, trust and respect.

      Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth respondentUK
  • Band 2Caroline Holley
    Band 2Caroline Holley

    Caroline Holley

    Caroline Holley advises on a comprehensive range of family matters including financial disputes.
    • Caroline Holley is unflappable and an extremely knowledgeable specialist.

      Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth respondentUK
    • 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.

      Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth respondentUK
    • 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.

      Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth respondentUK
    • 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.

      Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth respondentUK
  • Band 2Sarah Hutchinson
    Band 2Sarah Hutchinson

    Sarah Hutchinson

    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.

      Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth respondentUK
    • 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.

      Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth respondentUK
    • Sarah Hutchinson will fight her client's corner. She's very good at empathising with clients, and she knows client's case inside out.

      Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth respondentUK
  • Band 3Edward Floyd
    Band 3Edward Floyd

    Edward Floyd

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

      Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth respondentUK
    • Clients are really supported by him.

      Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth respondentUK
  • Band 3Frederick Tatham
    Band 3Frederick Tatham

    Frederick Tatham

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

      Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth respondentUK
    • Frederick Tatham is competent beyond words across multiple skills and able to smooth the way through huge complexity towards a pragmatic solution.

      Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth respondentUK
    • 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.

      Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth respondentUK
  • Band 4Amy Radnor
    Band 4Amy Radnor

    Amy Radnor

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

      Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth respondentUK
    • 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.

      Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth respondentUK
    • Amy Radnor is a really diligent and hard-working lawyer. She went the extra mile to make sure every aspect was prepared thoroughly.

      Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth respondentUK
  • Band 5Flora Harragin
    Band 5Flora Harragin

    Flora Harragin

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

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

      Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth respondentUK
    • 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.

      Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth respondentUK
  • Up and ComingJohn Davies
    Up and ComingJohn Davies

    John Davies

    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.

      Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth respondentUK
    • John Davies is very humble, down to earth, and brilliant academically and in terms of strategy and litigation.

      Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth respondentUK

Ranked Individuals at Farrer & Co LLP (9)

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    Claire Gordon

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