Kyra Cornwall

Practice Areas

Kyra’s practice covers all aspects of financial remedies work. She specialises in complex family finance matters, involving a discrete handling of high profile and international cases. She has particular experience with trust and company structures, Part III matters, cases with difficult issues of non-disclosure, enforcement, forum disputes, issues of privilege and cases involving the implementation of nuptial agreements.

Kyra is frequently led by, or appears against, leading counsel in high value and prominent matters. She advises clients nationally and internationally, from jurisdictions including Hong Kong, the Cayman Islands, the Bahamas, Singapore and France.

Career

Highly sought after for Part III matters, cases involving landed estates and those with complicated and valuable corporate structures, Kyra’s cases regularly involve disputes running into the hundreds of millions.

Some examples of issues in recent cases include the recognition of a foreign divorce and whether or not this was obtained fraudulently, the enforcement of international property transfers, disputed company valuations, the valuation of mineral resources and the appropriate awards where the assets all stem from dynastic family trusts.

Professional Memberships

Family Law Bar Association; Inner Temple

Publications

Rayden & Jackson on Divorce and Family Matters (Author)

Personal

An avid support of the arts, Kyra can regularly be found in theatres and concert halls around London. Otherwise, her interests lie in the mountains and a recently acquired ambition to learn to sail.

Expert in these Jurisdictions

England & Wales

Languages Spoken

English

Work Highlights

BI v EN [2024] EWFC 200

VV v VV [2022] EWFC 46

VV v VV [2022] EWFC 41

AG v VD [2021] EWFC 9

AG v VD [2020] EWHC 1847 (Fam)

Hammoud v Zawawi [2019] EWHC 839 (Fam)

Martin v Martin [2018] EWCA Civ 2866

WM v HM [2017] EWFC 25

MA v SK [2015] EWHC 887 (Fam)

Joy v Joy [2015] EWHC 455 (Fam)

Joy v Joy [2014] EWCA Civ 520

Industry Sector Expertise

Financial Remedies

Claims after Foreign Divorce

Nuptial agreements

Financial provision for children

Jurisdiction disputes

Education

Awards