Denise Moran

• Divorce

• Financial remedy proceedings (including cases involving trusts, corporate structures and international elements)

• Private children matters

• Child abduction and international relocation

• Surrogacy and modern family issues

• Nuptial and cohabitation agreements

• Property disputes between cohabitees

• Financial disputes between unmarried parents

Denise qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales in 2006.

Before joining Maguire Family Law in 2017, she practised family law at leading commercial law firms Cobbetts LLP and DWF LLP.

She is now a Director of Maguire Family Law and leads the firm’s Wilmslow office.

Denise frequently acts for high-net worth individuals including entrepreneurs and business professionals. She has represented a number of high profile clients in the field of sport and entertainment.

Denise Moran is a Director of Maguire Family Law and Head of the firm’s Wilmslow office. She has over 20 years’ experience advising clients on complex family law matters including divorce, financial remedy proceedings and private children law.

Denise regularly acts for high net worth individuals including professionals, entrepreneurs and individuals in business, finance, media and sport. Her work frequently involves complex financial structures including trusts, corporate assets and internationally held wealth.

She is known for combining a commercial and pragmatic approach with sensitivity to the personal challenges clients face during family disputes.

Denise plays a key role in the firm’s complex financial remedy and private children cases, including matters involving high-value assets, trusts and international elements. She is also experienced in sensitive children cases involving modern family issues and complex welfare considerations.

Denise is recognised for her expertise in complex financial remedy cases and private children matters.

Notable Work

Denise has acted in a number of complex and sensitive family law cases including:

• Advising in arbitration proceedings concerning financial remedy issues, helping to bring a long-running and highly contentious dispute to a conclusion.

• Representing a parent in Children Act proceedings involving highly neurodiverse children and a neurodiverse parent, achieving a positive outcome following a contested final hearing.

• Advising in financial remedy proceedings where a party lacked litigation capacity and the principal asset comprised a substantial clinical negligence award, navigating the case carefully to protect the client’s interests while reducing conflict.

Leadership

Denise heads the Wilmslow Team of Maguire Family Law. There are 5 solicitors in Wilmslow. Denise mentors and supervises all solicitors in the Wilmslow team and other junior lawyers within the firm.

Denise is heavily involved in the Female Leaders Network in Manchester.