Claire O'Flinn

Practice Areas

Claire is a family solicitor with over 20 years’ experience resolving complex financial and children issues.

She works on many high-profile cases, often with an international element, ensuring that her clients are kept out of the media spotlight. Her practice spans all areas of family law and she has particular expertise in reaching favourable financial solutions for high-net-worth individuals. As well as her financial practice, Claire also acts for parents in disputes concerning their children, with high success in reaching solutions without making court applications. Claire is an expert in advising upon the effects and consequences of coercive and controlling behaviour within family relationships.

Above all, Claire is committed to helping couples part with dignity and to minimise the impact on the family. She is a trained collaborative lawyer and mediator as well as a regular contributor to family law journals, the national press and industry websites. Claire formed and chaired Young Resolution (Surrey) and has remained a committed member of Resolution – a community of family justice professionals who work with families and individuals to resolve issues.

Career

Claire qualified as a solicitor in 2004. Prior to joining Keystone Law in 2013, she worked at the following firms:

Manches

Mundays

Professional Memberships

Member of Resolution

Co-founder of Surrey Young Resolution

Work Highlights

Acted for members of the English, Spanish and Jordanian royal families.

Advised and represented a leading female member of the Conservative Party, reaching a generous settlement in her favour the day before a Final Hearing and thus avoiding court.

Acted for a highly successful banker wife in securing the transfer of the family home to her from her unmarried partner in the highly unusual order of preventing the father contact with their daughter following a domestic abuse relationship.

Acted for a top London restaurateur husband in a highly acrimonious divorce, achieving a favourable settlement for him and protecting his business.

Acted for a wife and mother following a marriage of extreme domestic abuse to include injunctive relief, divorce, financial settlement and protection of the children.

Advised and represented a highly acclaimed music DJ husband in his divorce and financial settlement, leaving his business untouched.

Secured a settlement for a husband from a Premier League football club regarding asset protection, divorce and financial settlement.

Acted for a wife following a long marriage to a former MI5 employee, allowing her to buy a mortgage-free home.

Advised and represented clients from the media, banking, medical, legal and sporting professions, all with the utmost of confidentiality to ensure that information does not leak to the press.

Awards