Camilla Baldwin

Practice Areas

Camilla is the firm’s founding partner and has over 25 years of experience in family law. Having forged her career at Kingsley Napley and Withers, she set up the firm Camilla Baldwin in 2005.

Camilla advises HNW and UHNW individuals on all aspects of family law.

Camilla often advises wealthy clients from foreign jurisdictions and advises on parallel divorce and financial proceedings in England and many other jurisdictions. She regularly offers counsel to royalty, oligarchs, actors, sportsmen, beneficiaries, trustees and people with significant inherited wealth.

Camilla is renowned for the quality of her caseload, including reported cases FF v KF [2017] EWHC 1093 (Fam), Vilinov & Anor [2019] EWHC 1107 (Fam) and SM v PM [2023] EWHC 3446 (Fam). Her recent cases are confidential as most have been settled without the need to progress to final hearing, most often through the use of an Early Neutral Evaluation process known as a Private FDR.

Camilla has expertise not only in divorce, but also in issues surrounding unmarried families and separating couples, as well as international and domestic child disputes. She advises on cohabitation agreements and pre-and post-nuptial agreements for her predominantly international client base.

Aside from running a busy practice, Camilla is the Founder of Not Beyond Redemption (“NBR”) a charity that provides free Family Law advice and representation to mothers in prison to help them to re-establish and maintain contact with their children. Camilla established NBR in 2020 to ensure that no mother loses contact with her children due to her incarceration.

NBR currently operates legal clinics in nine women's prisons in England and accepts referrals from across the women's estate. The charity’s ambitious goal is to establish legal clinics in all women's prisons in England by the end of 2025. NBR partners with law firms, who provide Pro Bono lawyers who attend the clinics and take on cases under the supervision of the NBR legal team. Presently, NBR is in partnership with Sidley, Morrison Foerster, Akin, Clyde & Co, Latham & Watkins, Simmons & Simmons, DAC Beachcroft, Norton Rose Fulbright, A&O Shearman and Stephenson Harwood.

Camilla’s role at NBR gives her essential insight into private law children’s cases, which assists her with her private practice, and, above all, supports families without access to justice.

Camilla has recently been invited by Sir Andrew Macfarlane, the President of the Family Division and Chair of the Family Justice Council, to speak at the Family Justice Council Conference 2025 in relation to her role as Founder of NBR.

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Professional Memberships

Camilla is a Member of the International Academy of Family Lawyers ("IAFL") and the International Bar Association ("IBA").

Camilla is also a member of Resolution, a community of family justice professionals striving to resolve family disputes in a constructive manner.

Publications

In 2024, Camilla chaired the second Cambridge Forum on High Net Worth Family Law, which brought together family lawyers at the forefront of UHNW and HNW divorce litigation around the world to discuss trends and developments.

Camilla contributes to the Cambridge Forum on International Private Wealth Disputes, which is an invite-only conference on contentious private client and trust litigation at which experts in the field of worldwide private wealth litigation discuss pertinent issues arising throughout the world today. Camilla attends the conference as one of only two family lawyers invited and regularly leads sessions which update global private client lawyers on the legal updates in Family Law in England and Wales.

Camilla also chaired the Global Elite Rising Leaders Conference in April 2024.

Camilla regularly lectures both nationally and internationally on family law issues, particularly those involving trusts and inherited wealth all over the world. In 2024, in addition to the Rising Leaders Conference, she has lectured at the following conferences:

1. Global Elite Private Client Exchange in Lenzerheide, Switzerland;

2. Cambridge Forum on International HNW Family Law in Lisbon;

3. Cambridge Forum on International Wealth Disputes in Athens; and

4. Global Elite International Private Client Forum at Villa d’Este in Lake Como.

Camilla is increasingly sought out to lecture as her reputation continues to soar.

In 2025, Camilla is lecturing at the following events:

1. ALM Private Client Global Strategy Forum in Scotland;

2. Informa Trusts in Litigation Conference in Rome;

3. Cambridge Forum on HNW International Family Law in Switzerland (which she is also chairing);

4. Cambridge Forum on International Wealth Disputes (location TBC); and

5. Global Elite International Private Client Forum at Villa d’Este in Lake Como.