Family: Matrimonial Finance
London (Bar)
9 years ranked
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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.
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.
Family Law Bar Association; Inner Temple
Rayden & Jackson on Divorce and Family Matters (Author)
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.
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Kyra Cornwall applies her impressive intellect and aptitude to a wide range of issues, including high net worth finance and jurisdiction disputes. She regularly acts on Part III claims and cases involving global assets. Cornwall has represented her clients in high-profile disputes before the Court of Appeal.
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A fierce advocate for her clients, who approaches cases with an encyclopedic level of knowledge. She takes on counsel at higher levels of seniority and does so with aplomb, dignity and grace.
Whether leading a case, or being led, she knows the case inside out, and how to argue it. She has excellent client-handling skills and is a delight to instruct.
Kyra is a quality advocate, who punches well above her weight. She has a silky smooth style that instils confidence in clients.
She is able to absorb and grasp thorny issues at lightning speed, often quicker than a KC, before effortlessly presenting them in a client-friendly manner.
Kyra is a class act; her cross-examination is sharp and focused and she manages to elicit exactly what she needs to get results for her clients.
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