Antonia Felix

Practice Areas

Antonia Felix is a Partner in the Family team. She specialises in all aspects of family law with a particular emphasis on complex financial remedy cases often involving assets in different jurisdictions and complicated trust structures. Antonia also advises on cohabitation disputes and private law children matters, including applications for leave to remove children from the jurisdiction and surrogacy. She is experienced in advising on pre and post-marital agreements and cohabitation agreements. Antonia's work involves multi jurisdictions and often involves disclosure issues and obtaining disclosure orders against third parties, including trustees and registered agents in offshore jurisdictions, and joining third parties to proceedings within the context of financial remedy proceedings.

Antonia is a member of the Firm's Surrogacy and Modern Families Group and was involved in hosting an event for the Law Commission in respect of its surrogacy reform consultation. Antonia also leads the family team's Education group and has a network of contacts who can assist clients who need guidance on all aspects of their children's education as well as being able to advise on education issues which arise as part of litigation.

Antonia was named by Citywealth as one of the top 100 private client lawyers in 2021.

Antonia is a member of Resolution and the Association of Women Solicitors, a community for women lawyers supporting each other in their careers.

Antonia is part of the Working Party put together by the human rights charity, JUSTICE aiming to improve access to justice for separated families in private family proceedings.

Career

Partner, Mishcon de Reya LLP

Legal Director, Mishcon de Reya LLP

Managing Associate, Mishcon de Reya LLP

Associate, Mishcon de Reya LLP

Solicitor, Mishcon de Reya

Trainee, Mishcon de Reya

Paralegal, Mishcon de Reya

Experience

Re RP (Foreign Surrogacy: Consent) [2023] EWFC 306 – High Court: acting pro bono for the applicants, obtaining a Parental Order where the surrogate could not be found.

Part of the legal team representing a Jersey-based client in his appeal to the Privy Council from the Jersey Court of Appeal, in a matter relating to child maintenance and the definition of "parent".

M v M [2010] EWHC 2817 (financial provision after overseas divorce).

MAP v MFP [2015] WEHC 627 (Fam) - Representing the husband in a case with assets, including a very successful family business, of £25m. The wife sought an add-back of £1.5million in respect of the husband's spending over a two year period. Following a final hearing at the High Court, the Judge found that although the husband had overspent significantly, this was not done with the intention of reducing the wife's claim, and so would not be added back.

Acting for a client in anticipation of and following the birth of their second child as a result of an overseas surrogacy agreement. We obtained a Parental Order on an expedited basis, having worked closely with our Immigration team who had secured a discretionary stay, enabling the child to enter and reside in England pending registration as a British national and issue of a British passport.

IN v CH [2024] EWFC 233 - Acted for the husband who made a competing application against the wife for an order for sale in respect of the matrimonial home and a yacht. No beneficial interest was found and an order for sale was made (within financial remedy proceedings). The wife’s application to sell the yacht was unsuccessful as it belonged to a company, AB, who had not been joined to the proceedings.

Publications

Cefinn Sirens - Antonia Felix

Industry Sector Expertise

Abuse and Coercive Control

Divorce

Education

Family

Matrimonial Finance

Mental Capacity

Surrogacy and Modern Families