Emma Baillie

Practice Areas

Emma has been advising clients in relation to their relationships for over 20 years. She has been a partner since 2016 and became Hanne & Co’s Head of Family & Divorce in 2024. Emma has extensive experience advising high net worth and high-profile individuals, including entrepreneurs, city professionals, and public figures. Her work focuses on complex financial matters, most commonly concerning intricate business structures, trusts, high value investments and inherited wealth.

Emma is regularly instructed in relation to wealth protection, including the preparation and negotiation of pre-nuptial and post nuptial agreements, She draws on a trusted network of internal specialists and external advisers, ensuring clients receive holistic, commercially aware advice tailored to every aspect of their circumstances.

Emma is well regarded for her ability to manage sensitive issues involving international elements, reputational risk, and privacy concerns.

In addition to financial matters, Emma advises on arrangements for children, supporting parents to make decisions about how they divide their time and where they go to school. Emma also supports individuals in relation to applications for personal protection through non-molestation and occupation orders. Her clients have varied backgrounds including homemaking, banking and politics.

As Head of Family and Divorce, Emma prides herself on her strong and clear-sighted approach. She collaborates closely with her clients and her team prioritising empathy, clarity and support.

Professional Memberships

Emma is a Resolution accredited specialist in complex financial and property matters involving high income households and substantial assets and in disputes relating to children.

Work Highlights

Obtaining a larger financial award for a wife by proving her husband had been concealing his business’s profits through parallel trading.

Successfully defending a husband erroneously alleged to have undisclosed assets in a complex web of interlinked companies, primarily owned by offshore trusts.

Securing a child’s emergency return to his home and school after one parent unilaterally removed him to a different part of the country.