Anne Kay

Practice Areas

Anne is consistently ranked as a Band 1 Leading Individual (the highest ranking available) in the Chambers High Net Worth Guide. With 25+ years working in London’s leading law firms, Anne has gained a wealth of experience across all areas of family law. Extremely experienced in hard-fought financial disputes and complex child cases, she also has extensive experience drafting pre and post-nuptial agreements.

Anne is a confident and talented negotiator, responding sensitively and intuitively to the wide-ranging demands of her cases and clients. She is known for her integrity, determination and drive, achieving the best outcomes for clients through settlement negotiations, collaborative methods and litigation. Anne is a member of Resolution and is recognised in the highest band of lawyers (Band 1) by Chambers High Net Worth Guide 2024.

Passionate about mediation, Anne has a busy mediation practice supporting parties looking to resolve issues calmly and consensually.

Career

Anne studied Law and French at the University of Liverpool and the Sorbonne before qualifying as a solicitor at Manches in 2000, before moving to Hughes Fowler Carruthers. Before co-founding the firm with Joe Vaitilingam, Anne was at Mishcon de Reya.

Clients

“She wildly exceeded any expectations I might have had of a good family solicitor, and her sound judgment coupled with a profound understanding of her client’s wishes brought matters to a very satisfactory conclusion.”

“Anne is smart, sensitive, and strategic. In work that is often highly emotional, Anne brings a steadying, rational hand to the table. She and her team are also highly efficient, thereby keeping costs in check and bringing matters to a conclusion without delay.”

“She was exceptional at boiling down the legal process to something that I understood, and I always felt that she was on my side. She was excellent throughout and never promised me things she couldn’t deliver.”

Work Highlights

Anne represented a wife in high-profile and complex financial proceedings in which the husband attempted to fraudulently conceal his legal interest in the family home in a sham-trust arrangement with his father, which involved forged documents. The forgeries were exposed by Anne’s team with the assistance of forensic expert evidence.

Anne successfully appealed a decision in relocation proceedings (“leave to remove”) thereby enabling her client and her three children to move overseas.

Anne successfully represented a father in court proceedings where a mother sought to move their three children to another part of the UK, a move which the father felt would impact their schooling and jeopardise his relationship with them.

Anne represented the mother of a child with profound autism in proceedings against her former husband in relation to the child’s medical treatment and her proposed home-schooling programme.