Family/Matrimonial Finance: High Net Worth
UK-wide
1 year ranked
Provided by Sinclair Gibson LLP
Kathryn Peat is a Partner and Head of Family at Sinclair Gibson LLP, specialising exclusively in family law for more than 30 years. Her practice focuses on high-value and complex financial remedy cases, frequently involving family businesses, corporate structures, trusts, offshore assets, and multi-jurisdictional considerations. She advises high net worth and ultra high net worth individuals on divorce, nuptial agreements, Schedule 1 applications, children matters, and international relocation disputes. Kathryn also brings significant judicial experience, having sat in a part-time judicial capacity for approximately 20 years, most recently within the Financial Remedies Unit of the Central Family Court in London. She is recognised for her strategic approach to complex domestic and international family disputes and for her expertise in alternative dispute resolution, including family law arbitration.
Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
• Advises on substantial financial remedy proceedings involving complex company and family business structures.
• Extensive experience handling cases involving offshore trusts and international assets.
• Represents clients in relocation and leave-to-remove applications with international elements.
• Advises on nuptial agreements and multi-jurisdictional family law disputes
• Divorce and Separation
• Financial Remedies
• Children Act Proceedings
• Schedule 1 Applications
• Family Business Disputes
• Trusts and Offshore Structures
• International Family Law
• Family Arbitration
Provided by Chambers
Kathryn Peat is a founding partner of Sinclair Gibson and is experienced in advising high net worth individuals in matrimonial finance and children disputes. Peat is also a qualified arbitrator.
Provided by Chambers
Kathryn Peat is a fantastic and very experienced lawyer.
Kathryn Peat is one of the classiest lawyers at the family Bar. She is completely unflappable and personable.
Kathryn Peat is very knowledgeable and has a very nice manner.
Kathryn Peat is highly respected, with a really sharp brain, excellent detail and a strong sense of strategy. She knows how to play out the case to the client and is an excellent strategist.
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