DMH Stallard LLP

Managing Partner: Richard Pollins

Number of UK partners: 86

Number of other UK fee-earners: 235

Total staff: 377

Family (London): Phil Morton

Private Client (London): Lorna Fairbairn

Private Client (Brighton and surrounds): Nadia Cowdrey

DMH Stallard is an award winning business with a strong reputation for building long term relationships with clients. We build trust and understanding, we know our clients value lawyers who listen to them and who provide jargon free advice. We offer flexibility so we can respond to urgent matters, or give you time to reflect before taking action. Our team hold long established relationships with some of the major banks and accounting advisers based in London and across the South-East, who continue to regularly refer clients to us based on our reputation for delivering first class advice, allowing clients to quickly see the benefit of using DMH Stallard for their legal needs.

Family Matrimonial Finance (High Net Worth) UK Wide:

We provide Family and Matrimonial Finance services for High Net Worth individuals and families, often with cross border assets. Our team have a reputation for advising on complex international divorces involving values up to £100 million, where we handle sophisticated cross-border asset structures, resolve complex business valuations, and obtain significant interim orders protecting clients' positions.

Private Wealth Law (High Net Worth) UK Wide/Brighton and surrounds:

We provide complete care and protection for our clients, working with them, their families, and other professional advisers to understand the full spectrum of estate planning, wealth management, domicile and residency issues, tax, inheritance and later life care considerations based on each client’s individual financial and family circumstances.

Our aim is to understand clients’ long-term goals, to develop effective tax saving strategies and protect wealth for future generations. We also regularly work with professional advisors in other jurisdictions to ensure we get a full understanding of our clients’ asset portfolio and understand any tax considerations.

International Work

We support High Net Worth individuals and families with complex cross-border family law disputes and wealth protection services. We regularly advise non-domiciled clients that have their main home outside of the UK, with specialist tax advice, inheritance tax planning, charity governance, probate advice, divorce and much more.Our team of immigration, tax and private client and family law specialists work closely together to provide the knowledge and expertise to help you. We work to understand clients’ long-term goals, develop effective tax saving strategies and protect wealth for future generations (inc setting up Family Investment Companies). We also regularly work with professional advisors in other jurisdictions to ensure we get a full understanding of our clients’ asset portfolio and understand any tax considerations.

Our offices are strategically placed to ensure ease of access for all of our clients. We work to tight schedules for clients that need a fast turnaround and are often multi-locational themselves, to international clients who work across various jurisdictions and want a firm of solicitors close to Central London or Gatwick airport. We have offices in London, Crawley, Brighton, Guildford, Horsham and Hassocks.