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Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth
High Net Worth Guide 2025 : UK-wide
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Issues around cohabitation, divorce, enforcement of orders and agreements, financial applications, International High Net Worth, litigation Funding, pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements and issues regarding trusts in family cases.
Where relationships break down, we understand how this not only affects a family but also third parties, including corporations and trustees, many of whom are international. Our ability to unpick the intricacies of cross-border relationship breakdown and work with lawyers and advisors in other countries ensures that difficult matters are dealt with smoothly.
We appreciate the complexity that wealth brings and assist our high net worth clients and their families through all life stages. We are innovators, leveraging new technologies and utilising non-traditional methods to deliver the best outcome to our clients. We are robust in our advice and tenacious in our approach. We handle every matter with the utmost discretion, a given in any situation, but even more so because many of our clients are high-profile and often in the public eye.
Work Highlights:
- Wyatt v Vince - Acting for the successful wife in the Supreme Court in Wyatt v Vince, financial remedy proceedings brought almost 30 years following the parties' separation and 19 years since their divorce.
- Jones v Jones - Acting for the successful wife in the Court of Appeal in Jones v Jones, one of the leading cases on the treatment of re-acquired wealth.
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What really stands out about Mishcon de Reya is their ability to provide a full service. They have a full in-house team.
Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth respondentHigh Net WorthThey've got so many talented partners. I'm endlessly impressed. They've got that strength-in-depth in being a full-service law firm.
Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth respondentHigh Net WorthThe Mischon de Reya team are kind and patient with clients while at the same time formidable in defending them. They provide strong teamwork from such a dedicated and knowledgeable department.
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Notable Practitioners
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Senior Statespeople 
Senior Statespeople Sandra Davis
Sandra Davis is regularly instructed by high net worth clients in complex, cross-border divorce and financial proceedings. Sandra Davis's clients adore her. She knows immediately what needs to be done in a case.
Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth respondentHigh Net WorthSandra Davis is a complete legend. Her instincts are brilliant. She knows from the word go where to take the case. She's very good at making difficult calls on cases and very supportive of her team.
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Band 2 Barbara Reeves
Barbara Reeves handles complex and high-value matrimonial matters for high net worth clients. Barbara Reeves is very dynamic and very focused on end results. She's very mediation-friendly.
Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth respondentHigh Net WorthBarbara Reeves brings with her that commercial edge. She has a very big client list and she has their confidence.
Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth respondentHigh Net WorthHer astute and knowledgeable approach instils reassurance and a feeling of safety when you are at your most vulnerable. She will steer you through hell and out the other side with such dedication.
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Band 2 Kate Clark
Kate Clark has developed a strong reputation for advising high net worth clients on complex family matters. She is head of the family department at Mishcon de Reya.
Kate Clark is an incredibly efficient and detailed lawyer who is much at home dealing with all-round cases.
Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth respondentHigh Net WorthShe is sharp as a pin, cuts straight to the heart of every argument and combines it all with a warm and down-to-earth nature. Clients love her, and opponents learn very quickly to be on their toes.
Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth respondentHigh Net WorthKate Clark is fantastic. Nothing is too much trouble and she's perfectly happy to roll her sleeves up.
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Band 3 Claire Yorke
Claire Yorke advises high net worth clients on contentious financial cases, particularly those involving cross-border elements. Claire Yorke is an extremely intelligent solicitor who sees angles that others miss and never loses an opportunity to get the best possible deal for her client.
Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth respondentHigh Net WorthClaire Yorke is super competent, really good on the numbers and fun to work with. She is all over the detail. There's nothing she doesn't know about the case.
Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth respondentHigh Net WorthClaire Yorke is so supportive, knowledgeable and quick to resolve matters before they get out of hand.
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Band 4 Antonia Felix
Antonia Felix has developed a strong reputation in the London market as a rising star for family matters. Antonia Felix is very kind, clear-sighted about things and handles delicate situations with real humanity.
Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth respondentHigh Net WorthAntonia Felix is super empathetic, pragmatic and will never sell clients down the river.
Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth respondentHigh Net WorthAntonia Felix offers excellent advice. She is approachable, empathetic, commercially aware and a strategic thinker.
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Band 5 James Rees
James Rees is a partner in the Mishcon de Reya family department. He often acts for affluent clients in cross-border matrimonial instructions. James Rees is hard-working, efficient and extremely affable. He serves his clients' interests incredibly well. He goes the extra mile to provide the best possible service.
Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth respondentHigh Net WorthJames Rees is a really strong fighter for his clients.
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Up and Coming 
Up and Coming Clare Radcliffe
Clare Radcliffe is a managing associate in Mishcon de Reya's family department. Radcliffe handles high-value divorce and financial provision matters, including matters that involve offshore structures.
Clare Radcliffe is great and completely unflappable.
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Ranked Individuals at Mishcon de Reya LLP (7)
UK-wide
Sandra Davis
Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth
View profile Barbara Reeves
Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth
View profile Kate Clark
Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth
View profile Claire Yorke
Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth
View profile Antonia Felix
Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth
View profile James Rees
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View profile Clare Radcliffe
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